| Mount Holyoke College | Centers of Excellence | 03/16/07 | $2,500,000 | South Hadley, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| City University of New York | Chancellor's Emergency Relief Grant Program | 08/07/20 | $2,500,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Los Angeles | Institutional Excellence Initiatives - Departmental Renewal | 09/15/06 | $2,500,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Bard College | Conservatory of Music | 09/18/08 | $2,500,000 | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Institutional Excellence Initiatives - Medieval and Early Modern Studies | 06/15/07 | $2,500,000 | Chapel Hill, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Columbia University | Columbia University - Globalizing the Core | 12/10/15 | $2,500,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Smith College | Faculty Career Enhancement | 03/15/02 | $2,500,000 | Northampton, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Toronto | FLUID Project | 03/16/07 | $2,500,000 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | Higher Learning |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | Institutional Excellence Initiatives - Faculty Lines | 03/13/09 | $2,500,000 | Madison, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Institute of International Education, Inc. | Responding to the Urgent Need for Supporting Academics in Peril - Phase II | 03/05/20 | $2,500,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Harvard University | Villa I Tatti | 06/18/74 | $2,500,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Pennsylvania | Institutional Excellence Initiatives - Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism | 09/15/06 | $2,500,000 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Wisconsin at Madison | Integrated Humanities Education | 09/10/15 | $2,500,000 | Madison, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| United Negro College Fund, Inc. | UNCF/Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Programs | 12/11/20 | $2,500,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Faculty Recruitment | 06/03/11 | $2,500,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Graduate Fellowship Support | 03/16/01 | $2,500,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Pennsylvania | Longitudinal Study of Selected College Students | 06/18/99 | $2,500,000 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Duke University | Institutional Excellence Initiatives - Visual Studies | 09/15/06 | $2,500,000 | Durham, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Cornell University | Institutional Excellence Initiatives - Professorships in the Humanities | 10/03/07 | $2,500,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Social Science Research Council | Mellon Mays Graduate Initiatives Program | 06/01/17 | $2,511,000 | Brooklyn, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation | Career Enhancement | 03/20/00 | $2,600,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Great Lakes Colleges Association, Inc. | Centers Strategy | 09/21/01 | $2,600,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| College of William & Mary | W. Taylor Reveley, III Interdisciplinary Faculty Fellowships | 03/12/15 | $2,600,000 | Williamsburg, VA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc. | WETA American History Projects | 09/11/17 | $2,638,000 | Arlington, VA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Social Science Research Council | International Dissertation Field Research Fellowships | 06/11/04 | $2,658,000 | Brooklyn, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
