| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | College and Beyond | 01/09/98 | $30,000 | Champaign, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | Sawyer Seminars - Genocide | 01/16/98 | $50,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| College Entrance Examination Board | Diversity Study | 12/23/99 | $50,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Western Interstate Commission for Higher Education | Cost-Effective Uses of Technology | 02/23/00 | $50,000 | Boulder, CO, United States | Higher Learning |
| Cornell University | Graduate Education Initiative | 03/20/00 | $225,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Pennsylvania | Graduate Education Initiative | 03/20/00 | $225,000 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Case Western Reserve University | Mellon Seminars: Issues in Interpretation | 03/20/00 | $48,000 | Cleveland, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| Oberlin College | Postdoctoral Fellowships - Endowment | 03/20/00 | $1,500,000 | Oberlin, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| Amherst College | The Academic Community at Liberal Arts Colleges | 03/20/00 | $105,000 | Amherst, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wesleyan University | The Academic Community at Liberal Arts Colleges | 03/20/00 | $95,000 | Middletown, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of the South | The Academic Community at Liberal Arts Colleges | 03/20/00 | $71,000 | Sewanee, TN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Spelman College | Faculty Exchange | 02/02/01 | $7,650 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Open University | Alfred Russel Wallace Project | 02/09/01 | $45,000 | Milton Keynes, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| Columbia University | Colloquium on Historical and Literary Studies in Higher Education | 03/16/01 | $80,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Council on Library and Information Resources | Graduate Research Fellowships | 03/16/01 | $800,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Graduate Fellowship Support | 03/16/01 | $2,500,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Dartmouth College | Postdoctoral Fellowships | 03/16/01 | $730,000 | Hanover, NH, United States | Higher Learning |
| Associated Colleges of the South, Inc. | Virtual Classics and Archeology | 03/16/01 | $695,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Cape Town Fund, Inc. | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program | 03/16/01 | $650,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Clark Atlanta University | Institution Building - Social Science Research | 03/16/01 | $500,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Williams College | Town-Gown Projects | 02/01/02 | $50,000 | Williamstown, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Harvard University | Distinguished Achievement Award [Greenblatt] | 03/15/02 | $1,500,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | Distinguished Achievement Award [Brown] | 03/15/02 | $1,500,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Appalachian College Association | Central Library - Phase II | 03/15/02 | $1,900,000 | Berea, KY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Williams College | Faculty Career Enhancement | 03/15/02 | $690,000 | Williamstown, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
