| Five Colleges, Incorporated | Transforming Programs for Language Learning | 03/12/15 | $2,000,000 | Amherst, MA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| University of Cambridge | Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities (CRASSH) Endowment | 03/12/15 | $2,000,000 | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Bard College | Masters in Curatorial, Critical, and Performance Studies in Music | 06/04/15 | $2,000,000 | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| New York Public Library | Preservation of At-Risk Audiovisual Collections | 09/15/16 | $2,000,000 | New York, NY, United States | Scholarly Communications |
| New-York Historical Society | Fellowships Endowment | 12/10/15 | $2,000,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| VolkswagenStiftung | Fellowship Exchange Program | 12/08/16 | $2,000,000 | Hanover, Germany | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| United Negro College Fund, Inc. | UNCF/Mellon Foundation Faculty Career Enhancement Programs | 12/08/16 | $2,000,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| University of Pretoria | Unsettling Paradigms: Decolonial Turn in the Humanities Curriculum | 12/08/16 | $1,993,700 | Pretoria, South Africa | International Higher Education and Strategic Projects |
| Columbia University | Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities | 06/04/15 | $1,975,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| National Gallery of Art | ConservationSpace | 12/08/16 | $1,800,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Arts and Cultural Heritage |
| Cleveland Museum of Art | Chinese Painting Conservation | 03/12/15 | $1,800,000 | Cleveland, OH, United States | Arts and Cultural Heritage |
| Five Colleges, Incorporated | Five College Center for the Study of World Languages Endowment | 12/08/16 | $1,775,000 | Amherst, MA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Council for European Studies | Dissertation Completion Fellowships - Phase III | 12/08/16 | $1,750,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. | 125 Commissions Project and NYO2 | 03/10/16 | $1,750,000 | New York, NY, United States | Arts and Cultural Heritage |
| University of California at Los Angeles | Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities | 03/10/16 | $1,650,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Nonprofit Finance Fund | Financial Health Initiative | 12/08/16 | $1,650,000 | New York, NY, United States | Arts and Cultural Heritage |
| University of Cape Town | ReCentering AfroAsia | 12/10/15 | $1,615,000 | Cape Town, South Africa | International Higher Education and Strategic Projects |
| Johns Hopkins University | Baltimore Youth Film Program | 12/10/15 | $1,600,000 | Baltimore, MD, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | Indian Conservator Fellowship Program - Phase II | 09/10/15 | $1,551,500 | New York, NY, United States | Arts and Cultural Heritage |
| University of California at Berkeley | International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs | 12/08/16 | $1,525,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| University of California at Irvine | Inquiry and its Infrastructures - Horizons of the Humanities | 06/13/16 | $1,500,000 | Irvine, CA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Cornell University | Linked Data for Libraries - LD4L Labs | 03/10/16 | $1,500,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Scholarly Communications |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities: Global Architecture History Teaching Collaborative | 09/15/16 | $1,500,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Northwestern University | Native American and Indigenous Studies Center | 12/08/16 | $1,500,000 | Evanston, IL, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| University of California at Berkeley | Architecture, Urbanism, and the Humanities | 03/10/16 | $1,500,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
