| 2009 | Stanford University | $50,000 | Education |
| 2009 | Kishwar Rizvi | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Samer Shehata | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Ussama Makdisi | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Mark Tessler | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Abdulkader Sinno | $99,500 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Asifa Quraishi | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Malika Zeghal | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Intisar Rabb | $75,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Capital Area Intermediate Unit | $20,100 | Education |
| 2009 | WNET | $50,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Brown University | $50,000 | Education |
| 2009 | University of Southern California | $50,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | The Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Inc. | $50,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | New York Hall of Science | $50,000 | Education |
| 2009 | Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im | $75,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Denise Spellberg | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Shirin Tahir-Kheli | $75,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Robert Crews | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Samuel Rascoff | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Dale Eickelman | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | George Saliba | $100,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Hussein Anwar Fancy | $96,000 | Legacy |
| 2009 | Jordan Media Institute | $50,000 | Legacy |
