| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Education Justice Project | 12/11/20 | $1,000,000 | Champaign, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $517,000 | Champaign, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Oregon | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $481,000 | Eugene, OR, United States | Higher Learning |
| Adler University | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $369,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Quinnipiac University | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $364,000 | Hamden, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Swarthmore College | Humanities Faculty Leadership Development | 12/11/20 | $871,000 | Swarthmore, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wesleyan University | Antiracism Arts Initiative (AAI) | 12/11/20 | $1,000,000 | Middletown, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| The University of Texas at San Antonio | Democratizing Racial Justice: Remembering Histories, Transforming Futures | 12/11/20 | $5,000,000 | San Antonio, TX, United States | Higher Learning |
| Howard University | Social Justice Consortium | 12/11/20 | $5,000,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Los Angeles | EPIC II: Social Justice Curriculum | 12/11/20 | $5,000,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $980,000 | St. Louis, MO, United States | Higher Learning |
| Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $617,000 | Cumberland, KY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Mississippi Humanities Council, Inc. | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $375,000 | Jackson, MS, United States | Higher Learning |
| El Paso Community Foundation | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $598,000 | El Paso, TX, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras | Afro-Diasporic and Racial Studies Major and Minor | 12/11/20 | $700,000 | San Juan, PR, United States | Higher Learning |
| Michigan State University | Creativity in the Time of COVID-19: Art as a Tool for Combating Inequity and Injustice | 12/11/20 | $3,074,000 | East Lansing, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Berkeley | The Black Studies Collaboratory | 12/11/20 | $2,877,000 | Berkeley, CA, 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 |
| 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 |
| Trinity College | Women of Color Leadership | 12/11/20 | $180,200 | Hartford, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Pennsylvania State University | Just Transformations | 12/11/20 | $3,153,000 | University Park, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation | The Kerner Commission Anniversary Project | 12/11/20 | $250,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
