| University of Chicago | Distinguished Achievement Award [Lear] | 03/19/10 | $1,500,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Amherst College | Faculty-Student Research | 03/19/10 | $200,000 | Amherst, MA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| St. John’s College (Annapolis) | Senior President: Biology Curriculum Redesign | 03/19/10 | $250,000 | Annapolis, MD, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Duke University | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - Additional Years Support | 03/19/10 | $123,800 | Durham, NC, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Cornell University | New Directions Fellowships [Case] | 03/10/11 | $260,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Cornell University | New Directions Fellowships [Langwick] | 03/10/11 | $269,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | New Directions Fellowships [Lowery] | 03/10/11 | $171,000 | Chapel Hill, NC, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| University of Pennsylvania | New Directions Fellowships [Grey] | 03/10/11 | $167,000 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Five Colleges, Incorporated | Consortium Endowment | 03/10/11 | $1,500,000 | Amherst, MA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Bryn Mawr College | Curriculum for the 21st Century | 03/10/11 | $1,000,000 | Bryn Mawr, PA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Kenyon College | Mid-Career President: Writing Program & Study | 03/10/11 | $150,000 | Gambier, OH, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Swarthmore College | Environmental Studies | 03/10/11 | $591,000 | Swarthmore, PA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Oberlin College | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - Two Additional Years of Support | 03/10/11 | $247,500 | Oberlin, OH, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Morehouse College | Walter Massey Professorship | 03/10/11 | $500,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc. | HBCU President's Project | 12/19/11 | $46,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Oberlin College | Toni Morrison Center for Humanities | 12/19/11 | $50,200 | Oberlin, OH, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| University of California at Irvine | New Directions Post-Fellowship Award [Lynch] | 03/05/12 | $50,000 | Irvine, CA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Emory University | New Directions Fellowships [Kugle] | 03/15/12 | $291,200 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| University of California at Los Angeles | New Directions Fellowships [Hochberg] | 03/15/12 | $225,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Vanderbilt University | New Directions Fellowships [Igo] | 03/15/12 | $266,200 | Nashville, TN, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Arts Across the Curriculum | 03/15/12 | $1,500,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Southwestern University | Transforming Paideia: Integrative, and Intentional Learning | 03/15/12 | $500,000 | Georgetown, TX, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Princeton University | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - 2012 Renewal | 03/15/12 | $247,500 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation | Dissertation, Travel, & Research Programs | 03/15/12 | $800,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Mills College | Art Integration | 12/17/12 | $50,000 | Oakland, CA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
