| Rust College | Black Colleges Program | 12/14/72 | $150,000 | Holly Springs, MS, United States | Higher Learning |
| Mary Baldwin College | Faculty Support | 12/14/72 | $150,000 | Staunton, VA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Washington College | Faculty Support | 12/14/72 | $150,000 | Chestertown, MD, United States | Higher Learning |
| West Virginia University | Forest Hydrology | 12/14/72 | $3,000 | Morgantown, WV, United States | Higher Learning |
| College of Wooster | Faculty Support | 12/14/72 | $200,000 | Wooster, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| Dickinson College | Faculty Support | 12/14/72 | $200,000 | Carlisle, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Saint Louis University | Andrew W. Mellon Fund - Endowment | 12/14/72 | $500,000 | St. Louis, MO, United States | Higher Learning |
| University Centers for Rational Alternatives, Inc. | Liberal Arts Education Conference | 12/14/72 | $50,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | The Journal of Interdisciplinary History | 12/14/72 | $12,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Williams College | Mellon Professorship | 12/14/72 | $750,000 | Williamstown, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Institute for Citizens and Scholars | Time Out for Man | 12/14/72 | $2,500 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Huston-Tillotson College | Black Colleges Program | 12/14/72 | $150,000 | Austin, TX, United States | Higher Learning |
| Social Science Research Council | Chinese Bibliography project | 03/13/73 | $25,000 | Brooklyn, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Loyola University of Chicago | Liberal Learning Programs | 03/13/73 | $500,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| North Carolina Central University | School of Library Science | 03/13/73 | $150,000 | Durham, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Harvard University | Dumbarton Oaks - Mt. Athos Project | 03/13/73 | $15,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Atlantic Institute for International Affairs | Library Operations | 03/13/73 | $120,000 | Paris, France | Higher Learning |
| Claremont Graduate University | AWMF Humanities Professorship | 03/13/73 | $750,000 | Claremont, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Emory University | Mellon Humanities Professorship | 03/13/73 | $750,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Harvard University | Technology, Work, and Character | 03/13/73 | $20,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| JDR 3rd Fund, Inc. | Youth Attitudes Survey | 03/13/73 | $25,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges | Financial Aid | 03/13/73 | $250,000 | Richmond, VA, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Universities Service Centre in Hong Kong | 03/13/73 | $100,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Harvard University | Mellon Humanities Professorship | 03/13/73 | $750,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Recording for the Blind, Inc. | Educational Material Conversion | 03/13/73 | $100,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
