| American Library Association | Preservation Institute | 03/28/85 | $15,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Teachers College Columbia University | High School Science | 03/28/85 | $30,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | Bentley Library | 03/28/85 | $120,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, 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 |
| A Better Chance | Program Development | 03/19/87 | $350,000 | Boston, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Folger Shakespeare Library | Cataloguing Endowment | 03/19/87 | $450,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| New York Public Library | Preservation Administration Internships | 03/19/87 | $135,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation | Mellon Fellowships | 03/19/87 | $3,500,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Frick Collection | Art Reference Library | 03/24/88 | $25,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Oberlin College | Foreign Languages Program | 03/24/88 | $350,000 | Oberlin, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| Grinnell College | Foreign Languages Program | 03/24/88 | $275,000 | Grinnell, IA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Pomona College | Foreign Languages Program | 03/24/88 | $275,000 | Claremont, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Berkeley | National Writing Project | 03/24/88 | $350,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Rice University | Undergraduate Curriculum | 03/24/88 | $350,000 | Houston, TX, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - Evaluation and Program | 03/22/89 | $200,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| City College of New York | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program | 03/22/89 | $220,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | Middle Eastern Studies | 03/22/89 | $550,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| California Institute of Technology | Science and Society | 03/22/89 | $264,000 | Pasadena, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Claremont Graduate University | Teacher Education | 03/30/90 | $45,000 | Claremont, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Kentucky | Faculty Scholars Program | 03/30/90 | $25,000 | Lexington, KY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Massachusetts at Boston | New England Resource Center for Higher Education - Study on Faculty | 03/30/90 | $18,000 | Boston, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
