| Washington University in St. Louis | Sawyer Seminar: Grounding the Ecocritical | 09/15/16 | $175,000 | St. Louis, MO, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| New College of Florida | Connecting the Arts and Humanities on Florida's Creative Coast | 09/15/16 | $750,000 | Sarasota, FL, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| University of California at San Diego | Community College-University Partnerships | 09/15/16 | $1,420,000 | La Jolla, CA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Glimmerglass Opera Theatre, Inc. | Development and Production of New Works | 09/15/16 | $400,000 | Cooperstown, NY, United States | Arts and Cultural Heritage |
| Visual Arts Research & Resource Center Relating to the Caribbean, Inc. | CCCADI Arts Program | 09/15/16 | $350,000 | New York, NY, United States | Arts and Cultural Heritage |
| American Symphony Orchestra League | Diversity Initiatives and Knowledge Center | 09/15/16 | $700,000 | New York, NY, United States | Arts and Cultural Heritage |
| Pangea World Theater | National Institute for Directing and Ensemble Creation | 09/15/16 | $650,000 | Minneapolis, MN, United States | Arts and Cultural Heritage |
| Playwrights’ Center, Inc. | Developmental Activities and Producing Theater Collaborations | 09/15/16 | $600,000 | Minneapolis, MN, United States | Arts and Cultural Heritage |
| Los Angeles Opera Company | Off Grand Initiative and Artist-in-Residence | 09/15/16 | $600,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Arts and Cultural Heritage |
| Council on Library and Information Resources | Recordings at Risk: Audiovisual Preservation | 09/15/16 | $2,725,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Scholarly Communications |
| Brandeis University | Transatlantic Collaboration Between LAPPS and CLARIN | 09/15/16 | $390,000 | Waltham, MA, United States | Scholarly Communications |
| Barnard College | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship | 09/15/16 | $52,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Whittier College | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship | 09/15/16 | $89,000 | Whittier, CA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Columbia University | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship | 09/15/16 | $87,000 | New York, NY, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Queens College | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship | 09/15/16 | $89,000 | Flushing, NY, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| University of California at Los Angeles | Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship | 09/15/16 | $91,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| University of the Western Cape | Kinetic Objects & Puppetry Arts Lab/Chair in Aesthetic Theory & Material Practice | 09/15/16 | $1,143,000 | Bellville, South Africa | International Higher Education and Strategic Projects |
| University of Pretoria | Understanding Inequalities | 09/15/16 | $965,000 | Pretoria, South Africa | International Higher Education and Strategic Projects |
| St. Lawrence University | Sophomore Journeys | 09/15/16 | $800,000 | Canton, NY, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Associated Colleges of the South, Inc. | Collaborative and Inclusive Faculty Advancement | 09/15/16 | $2,700,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Claremont University Consortium | Claremont Colleges Teaching and Learning Center | 09/15/16 | $1,500,000 | Claremont, CA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Boston University | Sawyer Seminar: Philosophy of Emerging Computational Technologies | 09/15/16 | $175,000 | Boston, MA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Georgetown University | Sawyer Seminar: Approaching the Anthropocene | 09/15/16 | $175,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Harvard University | Mahindra Humanities Center | 09/15/16 | $800,000 | Cambridge, MA, United States | Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities |
| Appalshop, Inc. | Performing Our Future | 09/15/16 | $500,000 | Whitesburg, KY, United States | Arts and Cultural Heritage |
