| University of Chicago | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program | 12/15/88 | $200,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Pennsylvania | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program | 12/15/88 | $200,000 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Council for Basic Education | Fellowship Program | 12/15/88 | $180,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Council of Graduate Schools | Dissertation Study | 12/14/89 | $25,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Rochester Institute of Technology | Image Permanence Institute | 12/14/89 | $300,000 | Rochester, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Academy of Arts and Sciences | Humanities Endowment | 12/14/89 | $600,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Research Institute for the Study of Man | Caribbean Research Collection | 12/10/90 | $49,500 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | Graduate Education | 12/10/90 | $600,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Pennsylvania | Graduate Education | 12/10/90 | $600,000 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Harvard University | Presidential Searches | 12/09/91 | $25,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Graduate Education | 12/09/91 | $600,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brandeis University | Institutional Advancement | 12/09/91 | $330,000 | Waltham, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Emory University | Institutional Advancement - Southern Studies | 12/09/91 | $452,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Stanford University | Graduate Education | 12/09/91 | $600,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Tufts University | Institutional Advancement | 12/09/91 | $285,000 | Medford, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Southern California | Institutional Advancement | 12/09/91 | $450,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Cornell University | Graduate Education | 12/14/92 | $630,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Bates College | Educational Effectiveness - Consolidation Program | 12/14/92 | $270,000 | Lewiston, ME, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program | 12/14/92 | $300,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Williams College | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program | 12/14/92 | $200,000 | Williamstown, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brown University | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program | 12/14/92 | $200,000 | Providence, RI, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Darwin Correspondence | 12/13/93 | $350,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Appalachian College Association | Fellowships/Research/Data Collection | 12/13/93 | $2,700,000 | Berea, KY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Barnard College | Educational Effectiveness | 12/13/93 | $300,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Davidson College | Educational Effectiveness | 12/13/93 | $220,000 | Davidson, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
