| Scholars at Risk, Inc. | Free to Think: Documenting Attacks on Universities, Scholars & Academic Freedom | 09/18/20 | $400,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Tougaloo College | Institute for Social Justice | 09/18/20 | $500,000 | Tougaloo, MS, United States | Higher Learning |
| Xavier University of Louisiana | Celebrating African Diasporic Cultures | 09/18/20 | $500,000 | New Orleans, LA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Gallaudet University | Visual-Centric Teaching and Learning | 09/18/20 | $800,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Graduate Center of the City University of New York | Sawyer Seminar - Race and the Middle East/North Africa | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Rice University | Sawyer Seminar - Diasporic Cultures of Slavery: Engaging Disciplines, Engaging Communities | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | Houston, TX, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Santa Barbara | Sawyer Seminar - Race, Precarity, and Privilege: Migration in a Global Context | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | Santa Barbara, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Newark | Sawyer Seminar - Natives and Nativists, Migrants and Immigrants in an American City | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | Newark, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Tulane University | Sawyer Seminar - Sites of Memory: New Orleans and Place-based Histories in the Americas | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | New Orleans, LA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Teachers College–Columbia University | Guided Pathways | 09/18/20 | $500,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden University | Humanities Across Borders 2.0: Asia and Africa in the World | 09/18/20 | $900,000 | Leiden, Netherlands | Higher Learning |
| The Library Company of Philadelphia | Mellon Scholars Program | 09/18/20 | $500,000 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Houston | Mellon Research Scholars Program Part II | 09/18/20 | $500,000 | Houston, TX, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brown University | Sawyer Seminar - Rethinking the Dynamic Interplay of Migration, Race, and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and Latin America | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | Providence, RI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | The Rutgers Institute for Global Racial Justice | 09/18/20 | $15,000,000 | New Brunswick, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Vera Institute of Justice, Inc. | Second Chance Pell Program and Expanding Access for Incarcerated Students | 12/11/20 | $2,500,000 | Brooklyn, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| New York Public Library | Future of the Black Archive Phase II | 12/11/20 | $750,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of San Francisco | Community College-University Partnerships | 12/11/20 | $793,000 | San Francisco, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Foothill-De Anza Community College District | Community College-University Partnerships | 12/11/20 | $1,833,000 | Los Altos Hills, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Virginia | Race, Place, and Equity | 12/11/20 | $5,000,000 | Charlottesville, VA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Northeastern Illinois University Foundation | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $873,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Maine at Augusta | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $941,000 | Augusta, ME, United States | Higher Learning |
| Stetson University, Inc. | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $359,000 | DeLand, FL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Marquette University | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $745,000 | Milwaukee, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| City University of New York | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $250,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
