| Harvard University | Distinguished Achievement Award | 03/18/05 | $1,500,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | Distinguished Achievement Award [Cook] | 03/21/03 | $1,500,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Columbia University | Distinguished Achievement Award [Bagnall] | 03/19/04 | $1,500,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | Distinguished Achievement Award | 06/21/02 | $1,500,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | Distinguished Achievement Award [Brown] | 03/15/02 | $1,500,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Distinguished Achievement Award | 03/15/02 | $1,500,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Vassar College | Creative Arts Across Disciplines | 12/05/13 | $750,000 | Poughkeepsie, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Bowdoin College | Cross-Disciplinary Curriculum | 09/13/12 | $675,000 | Brunswick, ME, United States | Higher Learning |
| Appalachian College Association | Archival Digitization | 11/10/00 | $50,000 | Berea, KY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Canadian Institute for Historical Microreproductions | Digitization and Access | 08/22/96 | $15,000 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Higher Learning |
| Xavier University of Louisiana | Celebrating African Diasporic Cultures | 09/18/20 | $500,000 | New Orleans, LA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Modern Language Association of America | Career Development | 03/16/83 | $30,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Denison University | Curriculum Development | 03/15/12 | $550,000 | Granville, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| Association of Research Libraries | Database Development | 10/03/89 | $65,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Oberlin College | American Democracy | 03/13/09 | $100,000 | Oberlin, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| Ontario College of Art & Design University | Decapod | 12/17/08 | $1,194,000 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Higher Learning |
| Minnesota Private College Research Foundation | Athletics Database | 07/26/04 | $25,000 | St. Paul, MN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Association of American Colleges | Curriculum Data Base | 10/03/89 | $125,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | Athletics Data Collection | 08/11/94 | $50,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Cambridge | Darwin Correspondence | 06/18/10 | $2,100,000 | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| University of Cambridge | Darwin Correspondence | 06/06/85 | $25,000 | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| University of Cambridge | Darwin Correspondence | 03/16/07 | $168,000 | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Darwin Correspondence | 10/08/80 | $20,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Darwin Correspondence | 12/13/93 | $350,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Darwin Correspondence | 09/20/02 | $220,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
