| Cornell University | Prison Education Program - Phase III | 12/10/21 | $1,700,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| New York Botanical Garden | Food Humanities in the Local Community | 12/10/21 | $1,500,000 | Bronx, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Macalester College | Mississippi River Watershed | 12/10/21 | $1,497,000 | Saint Paul, MN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Austin College | Pathways to a Just Society | 12/10/21 | $1,344,000 | Sherman, TX, United States | Higher Learning |
| Bard College | Bard-on-Mahicantuck | 12/10/21 | $1,490,000 | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Sarah Lawrence College | Interdisciplinary Collaborative on the Environment | 12/10/21 | $1,500,000 | Bronxville, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Bard College | Bard Prison Initiative (BPI) | 12/10/21 | $4,850,000 | Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Lincoln University | Black Studies Department | 12/10/21 | $600,000 | Lincoln, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Georgia State University | Intersectionality and Studies in the American South: Establishing an Intersectional Studies Collective | 12/10/21 | $524,300 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Oxford | Historical Dictionary of African American English | 12/10/21 | $1,500,000 | Oxford, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| Council of American Overseas Research Centers | Afghan Scholar Support | 12/13/21 | $500,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Swarthmore College | African American Academic Leadership Convening | 01/22/22 | $120,000 | Swarthmore, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Duisburg-Essen | Afghan Scholar Support | 02/24/22 | $503,000 | Essen, Germany | Higher Learning |
| Asian University for Women Support Foundation | Humanities Program | 03/11/22 | $1,000,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| National Park Foundation | Expanding the Boundaries of America250 | 03/11/22 | $13,431,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Pomona College | New Directions Fellowship: Egyptology: An African Perspective on Antiquity | 03/11/22 | $300,000 | Claremont, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | New Directions Fellowship: An Archaeology of Wind: Engineering Retraining to Explore Prehistoric Effects of an Invisible Force | 03/11/22 | $204,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | Intersectional Studies | 03/11/22 | $594,500 | Champaign, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Utah | Pacific Island Studies Growth and Outreach II | 03/11/22 | $1,000,000 | Salt Lake City, UT, United States | Higher Learning |
| School for Advanced Research | Mellon/SAR Postdoctoral/Doctoral Fellowships Phase II | 03/11/22 | $429,000 | Santa Fe, NM, United States | Higher Learning |
| Hunter College | The Mellon Public Humanities Scholars and Social Justice Program | 03/11/22 | $850,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Indiana University | New Directions Fellowship: Contemporary Latinx Opera: A New Direction for Art and Performance | 03/11/22 | $215,000 | Bloomington, IN, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Virginia | New Directions Fellowship: The Economic Afterlife of Slavery in America | 03/11/22 | $262,000 | Charlottesville, VA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brown University | New Directions Fellowship: Colonizing the Deep Past | 03/11/22 | $280,000 | Providence, RI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Johns Hopkins University | New Directions Fellowship: Imagining African Law: The Politics of Custom in South Africa | 03/11/22 | $264,000 | Baltimore, MD, United States | Higher Learning |
