| Visual Communications Media | Support for Community-Based Archives | 12/11/20 | $100,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Milton S. Eisenhower Foundation | The Kerner Commission Anniversary Project | 12/11/20 | $250,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| Foundation for California Community Colleges | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $360,000 | Sacramento, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Inc. | New Director's Vision | 12/11/20 | $1,000,000 | New York, NY, United States | Arts and Culture |
| Freedom Education Project Puget Sound | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $255,000 | Seattle, WA, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Oregon | Pacific Northwest Just Futures Institute for Racial and Climate Justice | 12/11/20 | $4,520,000 | Eugene, OR, United States | Higher Learning |
| Cornell University | Cross-Border Movements: Racism, Dispossession, and Migration | 12/11/20 | $4,951,000 | Ithaca, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of California at Riverside | Latinx Futures: The Civil, Cultural, and Political Stakes for Southern California Latinx Communities | 12/11/20 | $2,959,000 | Riverside, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Smithsonian Institution | Asian Pacific American Center’s Irene Hirano Inouye Memorial Fund | 12/11/20 | $1,000,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Arts and Culture |
| Social and Public Art Resource Center | The Great Wall of Los Angeles | 12/11/20 | $5,000,000 | Venice, CA, United States | Arts and Culture |
| Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey at Newark | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $250,000 | Newark, NJ, United States | Higher Learning |
| Arts & Design Alumni Research | Strategic National Arts Alumni Project | 12/11/20 | $650,000 | Austin, TX, United States | Arts and Culture |
| Case Western Reserve University | Academic Leadership Program Expansion | 12/11/20 | $2,028,000 | Cleveland, OH, United States | Higher Learning |
| Timeslips Creative Storytelling, Inc. | General Support | 12/11/20 | $100,000 | Milwaukee, WI, United States | Other |
| US Biennial, Inc. | Prospect 5 "New Monuments" Commissions and Public Projects | 12/11/20 | $2,000,000 | New Orleans, LA, United States | Other |
| Tulane University | The Tulane Mellon Graduate Program in Community-Engaged Scholarship in the Humanities | 12/11/20 | $1,500,000 | New Orleans, LA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Brooklyn College | Mellon Transfer Student Research Program | 12/11/20 | $1,000,000 | Brooklyn, NY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Emory University | James Weldon Johnson Institute (Tie-Off) | 12/11/20 | $1,000,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Learning |
| United Negro College Fund, Inc. | UNCF/Mellon Faculty Career Enhancement Programs | 12/11/20 | $2,500,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Michigan | College and Beyond II | 12/11/20 | $1,118,000 | Ann Arbor, MI, United States | Higher Learning |
| UBW, Inc. | UBW Archives | 12/09/20 | $100,000 | Brooklyn, NY, United States | Arts and Culture |
| NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, Inc. | LDF Archives Project | 12/08/20 | $105,000 | New York, NY, United States | Other |
| GrowNYC | COVID-19 Response Efforts | 12/08/20 | $150,000 | New York, NY, United States | Other |
| The Laundromat Project, Inc. | Mapping BIPOC Cultural Orgs in New York City | 12/08/20 | $100,000 | New York, NY, United States | Arts and Culture |
| The Tank, Ltd. | Birds in the Moon | 12/08/20 | $100,000 | New York, NY, United States | Arts and Culture |
