| Vanderbilt University | Postdoctoral Program | 10/06/76 | $750,000 | Nashville, TN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Willamette University | Learning by Creating | 12/06/12 | $700,000 | Salem, OR, United States | Higher Learning |
| Vanderbilt University | HBCU Postdoctoral and Faculty Exchange | 12/05/13 | $1,475,000 | Nashville, TN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wesleyan University | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program | 12/06/96 | $260,000 | Middletown, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Virginia | Economics of Higher Education [Curry School VPEHE] | 12/05/97 | $200,000 | Charlottesville, VA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wesleyan University | 1980s Fund | 03/18/81 | $400,000 | Middletown, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Vanderbilt University | Center for Digital Humanities | 03/06/19 | $1,500,000 | Nashville, TN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program - Evaluation and Program | 03/22/89 | $200,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | Consortium for Language Teaching and Learning - Part 2 | 03/30/90 | $900,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Utah | Academic Leadership Development | 03/06/19 | $100,000 | Salt Lake City, UT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | Graduate Education Endowment | 03/16/98 | $1,000,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | 2000 Renewal Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program | 06/16/00 | $400,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Washington | Minority Students' College Decisions | 06/13/03 | $400,000 | Seattle, WA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of the Witwatersrand | Sawyer Seminars - Property, Race, and Poverty: Paradoxes of the Law and the Possibility of Justice in Contemporary South Africa | 06/19/09 | $150,000 | Johannesburg, South Africa | Higher Learning |
| Wesleyan University | College of the Environment | 06/18/10 | $800,000 | Middletown, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wesleyan University | The Academic Community at Liberal Arts Colleges | 03/20/00 | $95,000 | Middletown, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | New Directions Fellowships | 03/21/03 | $230,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Willamette University | Fresh Combinations - Faculty | 03/19/04 | $800,000 | Salem, OR, United States | Higher Learning |
| Vanderbilt University | Mellon Partners for Humanities Education | 12/07/17 | $1,930,000 | Nashville, TN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wesleyan University | Center for Prison Education | 03/15/18 | $1,000,000 | Middletown, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Vanderbilt University | Construction of a New Classroom | 06/15/70 | $500,000 | Nashville, TN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Wittenberg University | Foreign Language in Science and Math | 01/26/09 | $30,000 | Springfield, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| Vanderbilt University | New Directions Fellowships [Igo] | 03/15/12 | $266,200 | Nashville, TN, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Virginia | New Directions Fellowships [Loeffler] | 03/14/13 | $256,300 | Charlottesville, VA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | New Directions Fellowship [Ramachandran] | 03/10/16 | $271,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
