| University of California at Los Angeles | EPIC II: Social Justice Curriculum | 12/11/20 | $5,000,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Shorefront | Support for Community-Based Archives | 12/11/20 | $100,000 | Evanston, IL, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center | Resilience, Sustainability, and Community Value | 12/11/20 | $600,000 | San Antonio, TX, United States | Arts and Culture |
| The International Association of Blacks in Dance, Inc. | Advancing Black Dance | 12/11/20 | $350,000 | Silver Spring, MD, United States | Arts and Culture |
| The New School | Vera List Center for Art and Politics | 12/11/20 | $500,000 | New York, NY, United States | Arts and Culture |
| The National Public Housing Museum | Support for Community-Based Archives | 12/11/20 | $100,000 | Chicago, IL, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Interference Archive | Support for Community-Based Archives | 12/11/20 | $60,000 | Brooklyn, NY, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Muscogee Creek Nation | Support for Community-Based Archives | 12/11/20 | $100,000 | Okmulgee, OK, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Robert W. Woodruff Library of the Atlanta University Center, Inc. | Project STAND: Student Activism Now Documented | 12/11/20 | $750,000 | Atlanta, GA, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Washington University in St. Louis | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $980,000 | St. Louis, MO, United States | Higher Learning |
| Peace Development Fund | Whose Knowledge? | 12/11/20 | $1,330,000 | Amherst, MA, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Southeast Kentucky Community and Technical College | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $617,000 | Cumberland, KY, United States | Higher Learning |
| Center for Cultural Innovation | Alternative Economies for Artists and Cultural Communities | 12/11/20 | $600,000 | Los Angeles, CA, United States | Arts and Culture |
| Mississippi Humanities Council, Inc. | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $375,000 | Jackson, MS, United States | Higher Learning |
| Smithsonian Institution | Smithsonian Latino Center Institute for Museum Practice | 12/11/20 | $2,100,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Arts and Culture |
| El Paso Community Foundation | Future of Higher Learning in Prison (Program Support) | 12/11/20 | $598,000 | El Paso, TX, United States | Higher Learning |
| University of Puerto Rico at Río Piedras | Afro-Diasporic and Racial Studies Major and Minor | 12/11/20 | $700,000 | San Juan, PR, United States | Higher Learning |
| Press Street | The Black Schoolhouse | 12/11/20 | $500,000 | New Orleans, LA, United States | Arts and Culture |
| Library of Congress | Of the People: Widening the Path | 12/11/20 | $15,000,000 | Washington, DC, United States | Public Knowledge |
| 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 |
| University of California at Berkeley | The Black Studies Collaboratory | 12/11/20 | $2,877,000 | Berkeley, CA, United States | Higher Learning |
| Council on Library and Information Resources | Postdoctoral Fellowship Program in Data Curation for African American and African Studies - Two-Year Fellowship Extensions | 12/11/20 | $2,010,000 | Arlington, VA, United States | Public Knowledge |
| Emmett Till Memorial Commission of Tallahatchie County, Inc. | Emmett Till Interpretive Center | 12/11/20 | $1,141,750 | Sumner, MS, 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 |
