| Trinity College | Hewllett-Mellon Program | 10/08/80 | $100,000 | Hartford, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | Writing Program | 10/08/80 | $92,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Pennsylvania | Student Environmental Research | 10/08/80 | $60,000 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | Past Programs |
| Johns Hopkins University | 1980s Fund | 10/08/80 | $750,000 | Baltimore, MD, United States | Higher Learning |
| New Jersey Conservation Foundation | Scholarly Review of British Countryside Commission Concept for the Pinelands National Reserve | 10/08/80 | $14,000 | Morristown, NJ, United States | Past Programs |
| Yale University | 1980s Fund | 10/08/80 | $1,500,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| Yale University | Fellowships - Yale Center for British Art | 10/08/80 | $60,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Arts and Culture |
| American Council of Learned Societies | University Press Cooperative Arrangements | 10/08/80 | $150,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Bethune-Cookman University | Black Colleges Program | 10/08/80 | $130,000 | Daytona Beach, FL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brown University | Student Environmental Research | 10/08/80 | $60,000 | Providence, RI, United States | Past Programs |
| Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum | Maritime Museum Program | 10/08/80 | $50,000 | St. Michaels, MD, United States | Arts and Culture |
| The Graduate Center of the City University of New York | Professional Ethics Courses | 10/08/80 | $88,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Harvard University | Fine Arts Lib-RLIN Affiliation | 10/08/80 | $32,500 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | 1980s Fund | 10/08/80 | $1,250,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Swarthmore College | Hewlett-Mellon Program | 10/08/80 | $100,000 | Swarthmore, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Lawrence University | Hewlett-Mellon Program | 10/08/80 | $87,500 | Appleton, WI, United States | Higher Learning |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | COFHE - Consortium on Financing Higher Education | 10/08/80 | $55,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. | Maritime Museum Program | 10/08/80 | $350,000 | Mystic, CT, United States | Arts and Culture |
| National Gallery of Art | Library Conservation | 10/08/80 | $464,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Arts and Culture |
| Organization for Tropical Studies, Inc. | Environmental Management | 10/08/80 | $240,000 | Durham, NC, United States | Past Programs |
| Work In America Institute, Inc. | Productivity Through Work Innovation | 10/08/80 | $150,000 | Scarsdale, NY, United States | Other |
| Yale University | Yale-Clare Fellowships Program | 10/08/80 | $150,000 | New Haven, CT, United States | Higher Learning |
| American Council of Learned Societies | Darwin Correspondence | 10/08/80 | $20,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brookings Institution | Graduate Education Study | 10/08/80 | $130,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Catalyst, Inc. | Library and Information Technology Services | 10/08/80 | $160,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
