| Chicago Humanities Festival | Strategic Neighborhood Engagement | 04/29/20 | $150,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Cornell University | Freedom on the Move | 04/29/20 | $150,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Indian College Fund | TCU Student Emergency Support | 04/20/20 | $4,000,000 | Denver, CO, United States | Higher Learning |
| Indiana University | New Directions Fellowship (Ing) | 03/05/20 | $226,000 | Bloomington, IN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Columbia University | New Directions Fellowship (Stephens) | 03/05/20 | $250,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Lewis & Clark College | Healing Social Suffering Through Narrative | 03/05/20 | $750,000 | Portland, OR, United States | Higher Learning |
| New York Public Library | Schomburg-Mellon Summer Humanities Institute | 03/05/20 | $500,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Washington | Humanities Innovation and Engagement | 03/05/20 | $700,000 | Seattle, WA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Berkeley | New Directions Fellowship (McEnaney) | 03/05/20 | $291,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Johnson C. Smith University | Strengthening Area and Cultural Studies | 03/05/20 | $500,000 | Charlotte, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation | Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award | 03/05/20 | $775,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | New Directions Fellowship (Selcer) | 03/05/20 | $200,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | New Directions Fellowship (Levinstein) | 03/05/20 | $257,000 | Champaign, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| New York University | The Latinx Project | 03/05/20 | $750,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Center for Civic Innovation, Inc. | Strengthening the Capacity of Campuses to Support Immigrant Students | 03/05/20 | $500,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Illinois Humanities Council | Envisioning Justice: Illinois | 03/05/20 | $750,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Berkeley | Art of Writing - Phase II | 03/05/20 | $950,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brown University | New Directions Fellowship (Osayimwese) | 03/05/20 | $245,000 | Providence, RI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | New Directions Fellowship (Haynes) | 03/05/20 | $316,000 | Madison, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Notre Dame | New Directions Fellowship (Ocobock) | 03/05/20 | $262,000 | Notre Dame, IN, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at San Diego | New Directions Fellowship (Balberg) | 03/05/20 | $289,000 | La Jolla, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Syracuse University | New Directions Fellowship (Forster) | 03/05/20 | $149,000 | Syracuse, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Skidmore College | MDOCS Community Collaborative Documentary Projects | 03/05/20 | $798,000 | Saratoga Springs, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Irvine | Graduate Education Reform Phase II | 03/05/20 | $1,500,000 | Irvine, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Humanities Alliance Foundation | Role of the Humanities in Community Life | 03/05/20 | $1,085,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
