| American Association of State Colleges and Universities | National Commission on the Role and Future of State Colleges and Universities | 06/16/87 | $35,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council on Education | Fellows Program | 06/16/87 | $300,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Columbia University | Soviet System Study | 06/16/87 | $50,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Indiana University | West European Studies | 06/16/87 | $300,000 | Bloomington, IN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | West European Studies | 06/16/87 | $250,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Berea College | High School-College Program | 06/16/87 | $240,000 | Berea, KY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Council for Basic Education | Fellowship Program | 06/16/87 | $120,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Historical Publications and Records Commission | Archival Fellowship Program | 06/16/87 | $160,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars | West European Program | 06/16/87 | $150,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Graduate Center of the City University of New York | Undergraduate Teaching | 03/19/87 | $350,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Stanford University | Library Preservation Administration | 03/19/87 | $146,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| College Entrance Examination Board | Advanced Placement Program | 03/19/87 | $450,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Southern Education Foundation, Inc. | Black College Libraries | 03/19/87 | $1,950,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | CIC - Minority Summer Research | 03/19/87 | $450,000 | Champaign, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| New York University | Information Systems | 03/19/87 | $250,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Newberry Library | Cataloguing Endowment | 03/19/87 | $500,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | Preservation Administration Internships | 03/19/87 | $111,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| College of Wooster | Fresh Combinations | 03/19/87 | $175,000 | Wooster, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| Cornell University | Term Chairs | 03/19/87 | $1,050,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of the State of New York | Library Preservation | 03/19/87 | $30,000 | Albany, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Johns Hopkins University | National Foreign Language Center | 03/19/87 | $650,000 | Baltimore, MD, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Academy of Sciences | CSCPRC - Field Research | 03/19/87 | $275,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Information Standards Organization | Collection Preservation | 03/19/87 | $36,000 | Baltimore, MD, United States | Higher Learning |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Modern Freedom Project | 03/19/87 | $32,000 | St. Louis, MO, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | Term Chairs | 03/19/87 | $1,050,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
