| Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Newark | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $250,000 | Newark, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Case Western Reserve University | Academic Leadership Program Expansion | 12/11/20 | $2,028,000 | Cleveland, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| Emory University | James Weldon Johnson Institute (Tie-Off) | 12/11/20 | $1,000,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| United Negro College Fund, Inc. | UNCF/Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Programs | 12/11/20 | $2,500,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | College and Beyond II | 12/11/20 | $1,118,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Tulane University | The Tulane Mellon Graduate Program in Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Humanities | 12/11/20 | $1,500,000 | New Orleans, LA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brooklyn College | Mellon Transfer Student Research Program | 12/11/20 | $1,000,000 | Brooklyn, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Pennsylvania State University | Sawyer Seminar - Transmission, Containment, Transformation: A Comparative Approach to Architecture and Contagion in Early Modern Cities | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | University Park, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Massachusetts at Amherst | Sawyer Seminar - Race and Visual Culture in the Americas 20th-21st Centuries | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | Amherst, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Asian University for Women Support Foundation | Supporting Refugee Students to Achieve Academic Success through the Humanities and Arts | 09/18/20 | $600,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Aspen Institute, Inc. | Aspen Presidential Fellowship & Alumni Network | 09/18/20 | $1,500,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| The New School | Sawyer Seminar - Currency and Empire: Monetary Policy, Race, and Power | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Mellon Leading Edge Fellowships | 09/18/20 | $3,600,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Scholars at Risk, Inc. | Free to Think: Documenting Attacks on Universities, Scholars & Academic Freedom | 09/18/20 | $400,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Rochester | Sawyer Seminar - Unbordering Migration in the Americas: Causes, Experiences, Identities | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | Rochester, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Tougaloo College | Institute for Social Justice | 09/18/20 | $500,000 | Tougaloo, MS, United States | Higher Learning |
| Xavier University of Louisiana | Celebrating African Diasporic Cultures | 09/18/20 | $500,000 | New Orleans, LA, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Graduate Center of the City University of New York | Sawyer Seminar - Race and the Middle East/North Africa | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Rice University | Sawyer Seminar - Diasporic Cultures of Slavery: Engaging Disciplines, Engaging Communities | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | Houston, TX, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Santa Barbara | Sawyer Seminar - Race, Precarity, and Privilege: Migration in a Global Context | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | Santa Barbara, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Newark | Sawyer Seminar - Natives and Nativists, Migrants and Immigrants in an American City | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | Newark, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Tulane University | Sawyer Seminar - Sites of Memory: New Orleans and Place-based Histories in the Americas | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | New Orleans, LA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Teachers College–Columbia University | Guided Pathways | 09/18/20 | $500,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Gallaudet University | Visual-Centric Teaching and Learning | 09/18/20 | $800,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brown University | Sawyer Seminar - Rethinking the Dynamic Interplay of Migration, Race, and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Latin America | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | Providence, RI, United States | Higher Learning |
