| American University | Olmsted Papers | 03/27/86 | $250,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Council on Library Resources | Short Film on Preservation with Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities | 03/27/86 | $25,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | Architecture/Engineering Project | 03/27/86 | $90,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | CIC - Minority Fellowship Program | 03/27/86 | $750,000 | Champaign, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Washington | East Asian Studies | 03/27/86 | $650,000 | Seattle, WA, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Sciences | Regional Program | 03/27/86 | $250,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Central Fellowship Program | 03/27/86 | $1,400,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Political Science Association | James Madison Fellowship Program | 03/27/86 | $250,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Social Science Research Council | International Studies | 03/27/86 | $9,000 | Brooklyn, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Stanford University | East Asian Studies | 03/27/86 | $450,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| United States National Committee for Byzantine Studies, Inc. | Publications of the 17th Annual Byzantine Congress | 03/27/86 | $25,000 | Washington, WA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | East Asian Studies | 03/27/86 | $650,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Oregon | High School Project | 03/27/86 | $140,000 | Eugene, OR, United States | Higher Learning |
| Commission on College Retirement | Retirement Study | 03/27/86 | $50,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Stanford University | Humanities Center - External Fellowships | 03/27/86 | $340,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Stanford University | Teacher Education | 03/27/86 | $500,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Institute of International Education, Inc. | Policy Issues | 03/27/86 | $30,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Kentucky | Appalachian College Program | 03/27/86 | $150,000 | Lexington, KY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Oslo | International Association of Scholarly Publishers | 03/27/86 | $18,000 | Oslo, Norway | Higher Learning |
| Armstrong State College | Conrad Aiken Video Lectures | 12/17/85 | $35,000 | Savannah, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| United Negro College Fund, Inc. | Fisk - Premedical | 12/17/85 | $400,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Dictionary of Mythologies | 12/17/85 | $30,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Midwest Faculty Seminars | 12/17/85 | $140,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | ACM/GLCA Project [PICAS] | 12/17/85 | $350,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | American Studies | 12/17/85 | $640,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
