| 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 |
| Gallaudet University | Visual-Centric Teaching and Learning | 09/18/20 | $800,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Aspen Institute, Inc. | Aspen Presidential Fellowship & Alumni Network | 09/18/20 | $1,500,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Teachers College–Columbia University | Guided Pathways | 09/18/20 | $500,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| The New School | Sawyer Seminar - Currency and Empire: Monetary Policy, Race, and Power | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Massachusetts at Amherst | Sawyer Seminar - Race and Visual Culture in the Americas 20th-21st Centuries | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | Amherst, MA, 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 |
| The Pennsylvania State University | Sawyer Seminar - Transmission, Containment, Transformation: A Comparative Approach to Architecture and Contagion in Early Modern Cities | 09/18/20 | $225,000 | University Park, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Library Company of Philadelphia | Mellon Scholars Program | 09/18/20 | $500,000 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Tougaloo College | Institute for Social Justice | 09/18/20 | $500,000 | Tougaloo, MS, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Houston | Mellon Research Scholars Program Part II | 09/18/20 | $500,000 | Houston, TX, United States | Higher Learning |
| 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 |
| Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice (ISGRJ) | 09/18/20 | $15,000,000 | New Brunswick, NJ, 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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Marquette University | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $745,000 | Milwaukee, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $617,000 | Cumberland, KY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Adler University | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $369,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Oregon | Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice | 12/11/20 | $4,520,000 | Eugene, OR, United States | Higher Learning |
| Florida International University | Race, Risk, and Resilience: Building a Local-to-Global “Commons for Justice” | 12/11/20 | $4,632,000 | Miami, FL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Michigan State University | Creativity in the Time of COVID-19: Art as a Tool for Combating Inequity and Injustice | 12/11/20 | $3,074,000 | East Lansing, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | Crafting Democratic Futures: Situating Colleges and Universities in Community-based Reparations Solutions | 12/11/20 | $5,000,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Los Angeles | EPIC II: Social Justice Curriculum | 12/11/20 | $5,000,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
