| American Council of Learned Societies | Mellon Leading Edge Fellowships | 09/18/20 | $3,600,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Public Fellows Program | 09/12/19 | $3,500,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Associated Colleges of the South, Inc. | Environmental Studies | 09/18/08 | $3,500,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | Humanities Fellowship Initiatives - Phase III | 03/13/14 | $3,500,000 | New Brunswick, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | Humanities Fellowship Initiatives - Phase II | 06/03/11 | $3,500,000 | New Brunswick, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Dissertation Completion Fellowships | 03/05/20 | $3,500,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Rockefeller University | Life Sciences Education | 03/30/90 | $3,500,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Southern Education Foundation, Inc. | Black College Libraries | 12/14/89 | $3,500,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation | Mellon Fellowships | 03/19/87 | $3,500,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Virginia | The Global South | 06/04/15 | $3,470,000 | Charlottesville, VA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Social Science Research Council | Dissertation Proposal Development Fellowships | 06/13/08 | $3,465,000 | Brooklyn, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Ryskamp Research Fellowships | 06/18/10 | $3,451,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| United Negro College Fund, Inc. | UNCF/Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program | 03/14/13 | $3,406,350 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation | Mellon Fellowships | 12/14/83 | $3,400,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Ryskamp Research Fellowships | 06/15/07 | $3,380,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | Society of Fellows in the Arts | 05/31/12 | $3,300,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation | Mellon Fellowships | 12/16/81 | $3,300,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Dissertation Completion Fellowships | 06/06/19 | $3,250,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Dissertation Fellowships/Fellowships for Recent Recipients of the PhD | 03/20/06 | $3,200,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| State University of New York at Buffalo | Establishing a Department of Indigenous Studies | 12/09/19 | $3,174,000 | Buffalo, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Institute of International Education, Inc. | Fulbright-Hays Doctoral Dissertation Research Abroad Program | 06/14/11 | $3,160,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Pennsylvania State University | Just Transformations | 12/11/20 | $3,153,000 | University Park, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Graduate Center of the City University of New York | Humanities Training and Pipeline Initiative | 12/09/19 | $3,150,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| The Graduate Center of the City University of New York | Humanities Training and Pipeline Initiative | 09/10/15 | $3,150,000 | New York, NY, 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 |
