| University of Pennsylvania | Sawyer Seminars - Power-Sharing in Deeply Divided Places | 06/16/06 | $120,000 | Philadelphia, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Sydney | Sawyer Seminars - The Antipodean Laboratory | 06/13/08 | $120,000 | Sydney, Australia | Higher Learning |
| University of Oxford | Sawyer Seminars - Understanding Human Creativity: Ecologies and Practices of Invention | 06/18/10 | $175,000 | Oxford, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Irvine | Sawyer Seminar: Suffer Well | 09/06/18 | $225,000 | Irvine, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Pittsburgh | Sawyer Seminar: Information Ecosystems: Creating Data (and Absence) from the Quantitative to the Digital Age | 09/06/18 | $225,000 | Pittsburgh, PA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Johns Hopkins University | Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Capitalism in Transition/Capitalism in Crisis | 05/31/12 | $175,000 | Baltimore, MD, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Southern California | Sawyer Seminars - Comparative Study of Cultures: Critical Mixed-Race Studies | 05/31/12 | $175,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Cambridge | Sawyer Seminars - Comparing Comparatisms | 06/06/13 | $175,000 | Cambridge, United Kingdom | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | Sawyer Seminar: 'Imperial Histories and Global Regimes' | 06/05/14 | $175,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Riverside | Sawyer Seminar: 'Alternative Futurisms' | 06/05/14 | $175,000 | Riverside, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Illinois at Chicago | Sawyer Seminar: "Geographies of Justice" | 06/04/15 | $175,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | Sawyer Seminars - Reading Regions Globally: History, Place, and Power | 06/08/98 | $100,000 | Chapel Hill, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brandeis University | Sawyer Seminar: Forgotten Dreams and Misplaced Revolutions | 09/15/16 | $175,000 | Waltham, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Columbia University | Sawyer Seminar: Global Language Justice | 09/15/16 | $175,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Duke University | Sawyer Seminar: Corporate Rights and International Law | 09/15/16 | $175,000 | Durham, NC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Chicago | Sawyer Seminar: Urban Art and Urban Form | 09/15/16 | $175,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Berkeley | Sawyer Seminar: Linguistic Anthropology and Cultural Critique | 09/11/17 | $225,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Northwestern University | Seminars - Comparative Cultures | 10/07/94 | $200,000 | Evanston, IL, United States | Higher Learning |
| Princeton University | WordNet | 12/05/97 | $200,000 | Princeton, NJ, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Sawyer Seminars - Sensing the Unseen | 06/19/09 | $145,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Sawyer Seminars - Rural Places, Modern Times | 12/15/00 | $107,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Inc. | Sawyer Seminars - Aiding Attendance by Graduate Fellows | 09/26/96 | $10,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Inc. | Sawyer Seminars - Mass Violence & Genocide in the 20th Century | 03/16/01 | $108,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Inc. | Sawyer Seminars - Contentious Politics | 12/12/94 | $110,000 | Stanford, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| The New School | Sawyer Seminars - Mass Media | 03/17/97 | $100,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
