| The British Library | Technology/Humanities Conference | 10/08/93 | $25,000 | London, United Kingdom | Public Knowledge |
| The Frick Collection | Photographic Property Rights | 11/17/00 | $25,000 | New York, NY, United States | Public Knowledge |
| University of Leeds | Electronic Edition of Ben Jonson | 06/22/09 | $25,000 | Leeds, United Kingdom | Public Knowledge |
| Harvard University | Medieval Manuscript Illumination | 02/22/11 | $25,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Public Knowledge |
| University of Pittsburgh | Geographic Information Systems | 02/02/01 | $25,000 | Pittsburgh, PA, United States | Public Knowledge |
| University of Illinois at Chicago | Assessment of the Reverend Jesse Jackson and Rainbow PUSH Coalition Papers | 05/19/14 | $25,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Association of American Universities | Association of American Universities/American Research Libraries Project | 03/15/93 | $25,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Public Knowledge |
| American Historical Association | Re-Envisioning the Scholarly Society for a Digital Age | 05/31/11 | $25,100 | Washington, DC, United States | Public Knowledge |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Preserving Intangible Cultural Heritage | 08/17/15 | $25,500 | Champaign, IL, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Gehua Center for Chinese Antiquities | Education and Exhibition Center | 08/22/03 | $25,500 | Beijing, China | Public Knowledge |
| Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | American Industrial History Workshop | 01/28/08 | $25,500 | New Brunswick, NJ, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Simon Fraser University | Independent Evaluation of the Foundation's Digital Scholarly Publishing Initiative | 06/01/15 | $26,000 | British Columbia, Canada | Public Knowledge |
| Commission on Preservation and Access | St. Catherine's Monastery Digitization | 07/11/97 | $26,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Public Knowledge |
| University of Toronto | Interoperability of Digitized Manuscript Sources Meeting | 12/15/14 | $26,500 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Public Knowledge |
| Columbia University | Deacidification Process | 11/20/06 | $26,600 | New York, NY, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Vanderbilt University | Ancient Near East | 08/14/00 | $27,000 | Nashville, TN, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Cornell University | Project Euclid | 02/19/99 | $27,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Public Knowledge |
| University of Michigan | Digital Image Management and Access Systems | 08/25/00 | $27,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Columbia University | Deacidification Process | 04/07/08 | $27,500 | New York, NY, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Council on Library and Information Resources | Declassified Analytical Tools | 06/22/09 | $28,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Public Knowledge |
| University of Michigan | Mapping the Free Ebook Supply Chain | 02/22/16 | $28,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Public Knowledge |
| National and University Library of Iceland | Nordic Newspapers | 09/20/02 | $28,000 | Reykjavik, Iceland | Public Knowledge |
| Medieval Academy of America | Book Publication Digitization | 10/14/08 | $28,900 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Public Knowledge |
| The Regents of the University of California | Audio Preservation [Sound Recovery from Mechanical Recordings] | 09/01/04 | $29,000 | Oakland, CA, United States | Public Knowledge |
| University of York | Scholarly Assessment - Special Collections | 02/07/05 | $29,000 | York, United Kingdom | Public Knowledge |
