| American Council of Learned Societies | Conference Summary Publication | 03/15/93 | $25,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Ripon College | Faculty Development | 05/15/06 | $25,000 | Ripon, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Illinois College | New President - Support | 07/26/04 | $25,000 | Jacksonville, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Swarthmore College | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program Renewal | 09/10/15 | $25,000 | Swarthmore, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Association of American Colleges | Liberal Arts and the Independent Sector | 10/07/75 | $25,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wesleyan University | Emeritus Fellowships [Buel] | 12/17/04 | $25,000 | Middletown, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | COFHE - Campus Performance Panel | 09/21/09 | $25,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Elizabethtown College | International Programming | 08/21/06 | $25,000 | Elizabethtown, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | Yale-New Haven Teachers Institute | 06/17/81 | $25,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Whitney Museum of American Art | Research Libraries Information Network | 06/16/87 | $25,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Association of American Colleges | Wye Faculty Seminar | 06/08/92 | $25,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Critical Languages and Area Studies Consortium | High School Arabic Study | 06/08/92 | $25,000 | Peacham, VT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Colgate University | Hewlett-Mellon Program | 10/05/83 | $25,000 | Hamilton, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee | American Geographical Society Collection | 10/07/87 | $25,000 | Milwaukee, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Commission on Research | general support | 12/12/79 | $25,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Historical Publications and Records Commission | Editing Institutes | 12/17/85 | $25,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Harvard University | National Academy of Education | 12/18/86 | $25,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Frick Collection | Art Reference Library | 03/24/88 | $25,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Hollins College | Masters Program in Liberal Arts | 03/11/71 | $25,000 | Hollins College, VA, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Philosophical Society | Altas of the Greek and Roman World | 02/16/01 | $25,000 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Institute for Citizens and Scholars | Minority Graduate Study | 01/25/02 | $25,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | OKI Support | 02/21/03 | $25,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Cornell University | Cornell Higher Education Research Institute | 04/23/98 | $25,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | Governance Project | 05/17/02 | $25,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Ripon College | New President | 06/11/04 | $25,000 | Ripon, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
