| Harvard University | Art History Centers - Villa I Tatti - Phase III | 06/03/11 | $593,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Cornell University | New Directions Post-Fellowship Award [Toorawa] | 06/03/11 | $50,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Johns Hopkins University | Enhanced Support for the Mellon Endowment for Graduate Studies in the Humanities | 06/03/11 | $3,000,000 | Baltimore, MD, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Berkeley | Sawyer Seminars - Speciesism in Biology, Culture, and Sociopolitics | 06/03/11 | $165,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Davis | Sawyer Seminars - Indigenous Cosmopolitics | 06/03/11 | $173,800 | Davis, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Syracuse University | Humanities Corridor (Consortium) | 06/03/11 | $1,000,000 | Syracuse, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Council of Independent Colleges | Information Fluency Programs II | 06/03/11 | $682,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| McDaniel College | New President | 06/03/11 | $100,000 | Westminster, MD, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of the South | New President | 06/03/11 | $100,000 | Sewanee, TN, United States | Higher Learning |
| Morehouse College | CTEMS Program | 06/03/11 | $400,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Swarthmore College | New Directions Post-Fellowship Award [Baker] | 05/31/12 | $50,000 | Swarthmore, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brandeis University | Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Rethinking the Age of Revolution | 05/31/12 | $175,000 | Waltham, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| New York University | Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: A Post-Genomic Embrace of the Human | 05/31/12 | $175,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Ohio State University | Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Language, Politics, and Human Expression | 05/31/12 | $175,000 | Columbus, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Santa Barbara | Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Sea Change | 05/31/12 | $175,000 | Santa Barbara, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Duke University | Area Studies | 05/31/12 | $750,000 | Durham, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | ArtsEngine Arts Integration Research | 05/31/12 | $500,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Pennsylvania | University Humanities Centers | 05/31/12 | $455,000 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Franklin & Marshall College | Faculty Center for Teaching & Scholarship | 05/31/12 | $120,000 | Lancaster, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Associated Colleges of the Midwest, Inc. | Institute on College Futures | 05/31/12 | $250,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| St. John’s College (Annapolis) | Faculty Enrichment | 05/31/12 | $600,000 | Annapolis, MD, United States | Higher Learning |
| Colorado College | New President | 05/31/12 | $100,000 | Colorado Springs, CO, United States | Higher Learning |
| Davidson College | New President | 05/31/12 | $100,000 | Davidson, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| The New School | New President | 05/31/12 | $100,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Berkeley | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program | 05/31/12 | $481,500 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
