| Council of Chief State School Officers | School-College/University Programs | 10/07/87 | $650,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Franklin & Marshall College | Commonwealth Partnership | 10/07/87 | $200,000 | Lancaster, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Harvard University | Assessment Seminar | 10/07/87 | $150,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | Kennan Institute | 10/07/87 | $500,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Bates College | Foreign Languages Program | 10/07/87 | $275,000 | Lewiston, ME, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Library Association | Association of College and Research Libraries - Black Colleges | 10/07/87 | $20,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Trinity College | Foreign Languages Program | 10/07/87 | $275,000 | Hartford, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Council for Aid to Education, Inc. | Public-Service Campaign | 10/07/87 | $40,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wesleyan University | Foreign Languages Program | 10/07/87 | $325,000 | Middletown, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Williams College | Four College Summer Minority Program | 10/07/87 | $280,000 | Williamstown, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Academy in Rome | Fellowship Program | 10/07/87 | $250,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Education Commission of the States | Campus Compact | 10/07/87 | $260,000 | Denver, CO, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee | American Geographical Society Collection | 10/07/87 | $25,000 | Milwaukee, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Northeast Document Conservation Center, Inc. | Field Service Program | 10/07/87 | $125,000 | Andover, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Daedalus - Distribution | 10/07/87 | $10,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Graduate Center of the City University of New York | Community College Project | 10/07/87 | $385,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Harvard University | Mellon Faculty Fellowships | 10/07/87 | $1,650,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Mellon Instructors Program | 10/07/87 | $1,500,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Lawrence University | Foreign Languages Program | 10/07/87 | $275,000 | Appleton, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council on Education | Demographic Study | 06/16/87 | $50,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Columbia University | Soviet System Study | 06/16/87 | $50,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | Community College Mid-Career Fellowship Program | 06/16/87 | $185,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Dublin, Trinity College | Trinity College Library | 06/16/87 | $155,000 | Dublin, Ireland | Higher Learning |
| National Historical Publications and Records Commission | Archival Fellowship Program | 06/16/87 | $160,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | American Research Universities | 06/16/87 | $26,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
