| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Education Justice Project | 12/11/20 | $1,000,000 | Champaign, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Asian University for Women Support Foundation | Supporting Refugee Students to Achieve Academic Success through the Humanities and Arts | 12/13/18 | $500,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Council of Graduate Schools | PhD Career Pathways: The Humanities Coalition - Phase III | 09/12/19 | $1,200,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Cornell University | Prison Education Program - Phase III | 12/10/21 | $1,700,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Amherst College | 1980s Fund | 03/18/81 | $300,000 | Amherst, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Bryn Mawr College | 1980s Fund | 03/18/81 | $350,000 | Bryn Mawr, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Community College Humanities Association | Member and Program Expansion | 03/18/81 | $90,000 | Philidelphia, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Stanford University | US-Mexico Relations | 03/18/81 | $275,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Tufts University | Faculty Development in the Arts and Sciences | 03/18/81 | $350,000 | Medford, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Humanities Center | Senior Scholar Fellowship Program | 03/18/81 | $350,000 | Research Triangle Park, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wellesley College | 1980s Fund | 03/18/81 | $400,000 | Wellesley, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Williams College | 1980s Fund | 03/18/81 | $350,000 | Williamstown, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | Kennan Institute | 03/18/81 | $75,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Vanderbilt University | Center for Digital Humanities | 03/06/19 | $1,500,000 | Nashville, TN, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Puget Sound | Freedom Education Project Puget Sound | 09/12/19 | $1,000,000 | Tacoma, WA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brooklyn College | Mellon Transfer Student Research Program | 12/11/20 | $1,000,000 | Brooklyn, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| American University | Humanities Truck Project | 03/06/19 | $650,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Interseminars in the Humanities and the Arts | 09/12/19 | $2,000,000 | Champaign, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Association of American Colleges and Universities | Bringing Theory to Practice (BTtoP): The PLACE Collaboratory: Partnerships for Listening and Action by Communities and Educators | 06/06/19 | $800,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Toronto | Junior Faculty Appointments | 03/17/82 | $600,000 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Higher Learning |
| Research Libraries Group, Inc. | Preservation Microfilming | 03/16/83 | $675,000 | Mountain View, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Institute of International Education, Inc. | Foreign Students | 03/16/83 | $35,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Hartford | General-Education Curriculum | 03/16/83 | $250,000 | West Hartford, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| New-York Historical Society | Cataloguing Costs | 03/16/83 | $100,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council on Education | Fellows Program - Self-Regulatory Policy | 03/14/84 | $450,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
