| Yale University | Paul Mellon Professorship | 10/02/85 | $1,750,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Chinese Academy of Social Sciences | 10/02/85 | $75,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Amherst College | Hewlett-Mellon Program | 10/02/85 | $125,000 | Amherst, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Council on Library Resources | Preservation Film | 10/02/85 | $150,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Lewis & Clark College | Hewlett-Mellon Program | 10/02/85 | $87,500 | Portland, OR, United States | Higher Learning |
| Catholic University of America | Washington Collegium | 10/02/85 | $20,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Colby College | Fresh Combinations | 10/02/85 | $225,000 | Waterville, ME, United States | Higher Learning |
| Rhodes College | Hewlett-Mellon Program | 10/02/85 | $87,500 | Memphis, TN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | West European Program | 10/02/85 | $30,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | Latin American Program | 10/02/85 | $250,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Academy of American Poets, Inc. | Cataloguing Project | 10/02/85 | $26,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Council of Chief State School Officers | School-college/University Programs | 10/02/85 | $650,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College | Eighteenth Century Short Title Catalogue | 10/02/85 | $235,000 | Baton Rouge, LA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Archival Project | 10/02/85 | $140,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wofford College | Hewlitt-Mellon Program | 10/02/85 | $75,000 | Spartanburg, SC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Association of Research Libraries | Online Inventory | 06/06/85 | $220,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Graduate Center of the City University of New York | Community College Project | 06/06/85 | $375,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Trust for the British Library | Microform Acquisitions | 06/06/85 | $250,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Council on Library Resources | Research Program | 06/06/85 | $1,000,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Kalamazoo College | Fresh Combinations | 06/06/85 | $200,000 | Kalamazoo, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Oxford | Mellon Chair - Supplement | 06/06/85 | $250,000 | Oxford, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| Washington and Lee University | Fresh Combinations | 06/06/85 | $250,000 | Lexington, VA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wheaton College | Fresh Combinations | 06/06/85 | $200,000 | Norton, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Tulane University | Latin American Studies | 06/06/85 | $300,000 | New Orleans, LA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Cambridge | Darwin Correspondence | 06/06/85 | $25,000 | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
