| 2008 | Bruce B. Lawrence | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Susannah Heschel | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Amr Shalakany | $95,500 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Paul Silverstein | $95,752 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Monica Toft | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Muhammad S. Umar | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Susan Moeller | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | University of Wisconsin, Madison | $50,000 | Democracy |
| 2008 | Stanford University | $50,000 | Higher Education and Research in Africa |
| 2008 | University of Minnesota | $40,000 | Education |
| 2008 | Tahera Qutbuddin | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Ashutosh Varshney | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | $50,000 | International Peace and Security |
| 2008 | The New School | $50,000 | Democracy |
| 2008 | University of California, Irvine | $50,000 | International Peace and Security |
| 2008 | Carnegie Endowment for International Peace | $50,000 | International Peace and Security |
| 2008 | Kanchan Chandra | $84,900 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Leila Fawaz | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Nora Ann Colton | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Miriam Lowi | $99,400 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Sadiq Reza | $99,600 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Michael Gasper | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2008 | Cornell University | $50,000 | Democracy |
| 2008 | Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey | $50,000 | Democracy |
| 2008 | Tides Foundation | $50,000 | Democracy |
