| University of Washington | Campus Museum and Library Collaboration | 12/08/16 | $300,000 | Seattle, WA, United States | Arts and Culture |
| The Research Foundation for The State University of New York | Driving While Black | 12/08/16 | $163,000 | Albany, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Newberry Library | Digital Tools and Resources for Italian Renaissance Paleography | 12/08/16 | $350,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Johnson C. Smith University | Teaching, Learning, and Solving Problems in the Interdisciplinary Humanities | 12/08/16 | $466,000 | Charlotte, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| United Negro College Fund, Inc. | UNCF/Mellon Foundation Faculty Career Enhancement Programs | 12/08/16 | $2,000,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Riverside | Advancing Intercultural Studies II | 12/08/16 | $250,000 | Riverside, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Georgetown University | Racial Justice: A Framework for Georgetown University | 12/08/16 | $1,500,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Society for the Preservation of Weeksville and Bedford-Stuyvesant History | The Legacy Project | 12/08/16 | $300,000 | Brooklyn, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Council for the Development of Social Science Research in Africa | Repositioning of the Humanities and Social Sciences | 12/08/16 | $730,500 | Dakar, Senegal | International Higher Education and Strategic Projects |
| University of New Hampshire | New Hampshire Humanities Collaborative | 12/08/16 | $408,000 | Durham, NH, United States | Higher Learning |
| Association for a UN Live Museum | UN Live Museum for Humanity | 10/24/16 | $150,000 | Copenhagen, Denmark | Higher Learning |
| Council of Independent Colleges | Consortium for Online Humanities Instruction | 10/24/16 | $30,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| The American Architectural Foundation, Inc. | Save America's Treasures Data Collection and Analysis | 10/24/16 | $100,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Arts and Culture |
| Dance Theatre of Harlem, Inc. | DEI Convening | 10/24/16 | $50,000 | New York, NY, United States | Arts and Culture |
| Metropolitan Museum of Art | NICAS Travel Awards | 10/24/16 | $35,000 | New York, NY, United States | Arts and Culture |
| Ohio Wesleyan University | Committing to Diversity | 10/24/16 | $25,000 | Delaware, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| Center for Research Libraries | Identifying a Master List of Serials Titles for Long-Term Preservation | 10/03/16 | $38,500 | Chicago, IL, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Arizona State University | Planning for Future of Academic Library Print Collections | 10/03/16 | $50,000 | Tempe, AZ, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Dance/USA | DPDP Feasibility Study | 09/19/16 | $32,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Arts and Culture |
| Dance Heritage Coalition, Inc. | Dance Preservation Digitization Project | 09/19/16 | $52,600 | New York, NY, United States | Arts and Culture |
| Council of Graduate Schools | Understanding PhD Career Pathways for Program Improvement - Phase II | 09/15/16 | $750,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Minnesota at Twin Cities | Sawyer Seminar: The Politics of Land | 09/15/16 | $175,000 | Minneapolis, MN, United States | Higher Learning |
| International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University | Humanities Across Borders: Asia and Africa in the World | 09/15/16 | $1,300,000 | Leiden, The Netherlands | Higher Learning |
| New York University | Center for Ballet and the Arts | 09/15/16 | $2,000,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Newberry Library | Summer Institutes in Vernacular Paleography | 09/15/16 | $900,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
