| Commission on College Retirement | Retirement Study | 03/27/86 | $50,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Stanford University | Humanities Center - External Fellowships | 03/27/86 | $340,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Stanford University | Teacher Education | 03/27/86 | $500,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Institute of International Education, Inc. | Policy Issues | 03/27/86 | $30,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Kentucky | Appalachian College Program | 03/27/86 | $150,000 | Lexington, KY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Oslo | International Association of Scholarly Publishers | 03/27/86 | $18,000 | Oslo, Norway | Higher Learning |
| Armstrong State College | Conrad Aiken Video Lectures | 12/17/85 | $35,000 | Savannah, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| United Negro College Fund, Inc. | Fisk - Premedical | 12/17/85 | $400,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Dictionary of Mythologies | 12/17/85 | $30,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Midwest Faculty Seminars | 12/17/85 | $140,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | ACM/GLCA Project [PICAS] | 12/17/85 | $350,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | East Asian Teaching Aids | 12/17/85 | $26,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | American Studies | 12/17/85 | $640,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Prep, Inc. | Summer PREP Program | 12/17/85 | $150,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Research Libraries Group, Inc. | Scholarly Information | 12/17/85 | $35,000 | Mountain View, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | East Asian Studies | 12/17/85 | $600,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Kenyon College | Fresh Combinations | 12/17/85 | $225,000 | Gambier, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Pennsylvania | South Asian Studies | 12/17/85 | $400,000 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | Southeast Asian Studies | 12/17/85 | $500,000 | Madison, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Historical Publications and Records Commission | Editing Institutes | 12/17/85 | $25,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Humanities Center | Senior Fellows | 12/17/85 | $480,000 | Research Triangle Park, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wake Forest University | Fresh Combinations | 12/17/85 | $300,000 | Winston-Salem, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Bowdoin College | Fresh Combinations | 12/17/85 | $225,000 | Brunswick, ME, United States | Higher Learning |
| Hampden-Sydney College | Co-op Program for Six Virginia Colleges | 12/17/85 | $225,000 | Hampden-Sydney, VA, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Association for the Advancement of Science | High School Science | 12/17/85 | $350,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
