| St. Olaf College | Fresh Combinations | 03/27/86 | $250,000 | Northfield, MN, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Berkeley | National Writing Project | 03/27/86 | $350,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | Dictionary of American Regional English | 03/27/86 | $600,000 | Madison, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation | Mellon Fellowships | 03/27/86 | $2,780,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | East Asian Studies | 03/27/86 | $650,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Association of State Colleges and Universities | National Commission | 03/27/86 | $35,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brooklyn College | Core Curriculum | 03/27/86 | $250,000 | Brooklyn, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Cornell University | Teacher Education Program | 03/27/86 | $500,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Harvard University | Teacher Education | 03/27/86 | $500,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Teachers College–Columbia University | Teacher Education | 03/27/86 | $500,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Colorado at Boulder | High School Project | 03/27/86 | $140,000 | Boulder, CO, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | South Asian Studies | 03/27/86 | $100,000 | Madison, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| American University | Olmsted Papers | 03/27/86 | $250,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Council on Library Resources | Short Film on Preservation with Library of Congress and National Endowment for the Humanities | 03/27/86 | $25,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | Architecture/Engineering Project | 03/27/86 | $90,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | CIC - Minority Fellowship Program | 03/27/86 | $750,000 | Champaign, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Washington | East Asian Studies | 03/27/86 | $650,000 | Seattle, WA, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Faculty of Humanities, Arts and Sciences | Regional Program | 03/27/86 | $250,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Central Fellowship Program | 03/27/86 | $1,400,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Political Science Association | James Madison Fellowship Program | 03/27/86 | $250,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Social Science Research Council | International Studies | 03/27/86 | $9,000 | Brooklyn, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Stanford University | East Asian Studies | 03/27/86 | $450,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| United States National Committee for Byzantine Studies, Inc. | Publications of the 17th Annual Byzantine Congress | 03/27/86 | $25,000 | Washington, WA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | East Asian Studies | 03/27/86 | $650,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Oregon | High School Project | 03/27/86 | $140,000 | Eugene, OR, United States | Higher Learning |
