| National Humanities Center | Sumer Institutes for Literary Studies Program Conference | 04/20/09 | $50,000 | Research Triangle Park, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | New Directions Post-Fellowship Award [Huang] | 05/17/10 | $50,000 | Madison, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Cornell University | New Directions Post-Fellowship Award [Toorawa] | 06/03/11 | $50,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Swarthmore College | New Directions Post-Fellowship Award [Baker] | 05/31/12 | $50,000 | Swarthmore, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Juniata College | Rooting General Education in the Liberal Arts | 05/22/17 | $50,000 | Huntingdon, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Academy of Sciences | Research Universities and the Future of America: A National Convocation | 05/22/17 | $50,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Middlebury College | Centers Strategy [NITLE] | 12/28/00 | $50,000 | Middlebury, VT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Virginia Historical Society | The Paul Mellon Collection of Americana | 01/12/01 | $50,000 | Richmond, VA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Five Colleges, Incorporated | Self Instructional Language Program | 02/02/01 | $50,000 | Amherst, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Los Angeles | Summer HBCU Program | 03/16/01 | $50,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Columbia University | Affirmative Action | 01/10/03 | $50,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Harvard University | National Campus Diversity Project | 01/31/03 | $50,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Reed College | Presidential Leadership | 03/21/03 | $50,000 | Portland, OR, United States | Higher Learning |
| Trinity College | Presidential Leadership | 03/21/03 | $50,000 | Hartford, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Antioch University | Renewal Commission | 02/13/04 | $50,000 | Yellow Springs, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| Hamilton College | Presidential Leadership | 02/28/05 | $50,000 | Clinton, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Washington College | New President | 03/20/06 | $50,000 | Chestertown, MD, United States | Higher Learning |
| Connecticut College | Faculty Development Programs | 02/26/07 | $50,000 | New London, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Mount Holyoke College | Mellon Senior Advisor: Susan Perry | 02/26/07 | $50,000 | South Hadley, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Albion College | Presidential Leadership | 12/17/07 | $50,000 | Albion, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Bryn Mawr College | Graduate Programs | 03/29/00 | $50,000 | Bryn Mawr, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Scholarship America, Inc. | Planning Initiative | 05/16/00 | $50,000 | St. Peter, MN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Spelman College | HBCU Archives Institute | 05/18/01 | $50,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Five Colleges of Ohio | Enhancing Inclusive Curricular Practices | 01/18/18 | $50,000 | Oberlin, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| City University of New York | Macaulay Honors College Transfer Project | 10/18/17 | $50,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
