Grants awarded
You can search below for information about all grants we awarded. Our grants data is also available in csv format here.
We are committed to transparency, and believe that with better information, grant-makers can be more effective decision makers. In 2017 we started to work with 360Giving to publish information about Arcadia grants (last updated August 2025). Arcadia has waived all copyright and related or neighbouring rights to Arcadia’s grant data, to the extent possible under law, by dedicating it to the public domain with the Creative Commons CC0 waiver. This means the data is freely accessible to anyone to use and share.
Nepal cultural heritage documentation project
To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley and make the resulting material freely available online.
$945,748
2018
2 years
Nepal Heritage Documentation Project
To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley and make the resulting materials freely available online.
$3,006,209
2020
6 years
Desert of the Mamluks documentation project
To document endangered built heritage and oral traditions in the ‘Desert of the Mamluks’ in Cairo’s ‘City of the Dead’ necropolis, and make the resulting materials freely available online.
$79,730
2021
1 year
Digitization of manuscripts in Africa and Asia
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and make them freely available online.
$5,492,813
2021
5 years
Digitization of manuscripts in the Middle East and Africa
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and to make them freely available online.
$4,000,000
2016
5 years
Digitization of manuscripts in the Middle East and Africa
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and to make them freely available online.
$3,000,000
2011
5 years
Improving public policy through better understanding of history
To connect historians with policy-makers.
$152,000
2009
1 year
Finding homes for Romanian children in institutional care
To support social workers finding homes for Romanian children in institutional care.
$65,037
2006
1 year
Research, advocacy, and outreach to promote women's rights
To advocate for gender equality, protecting the rights and improving the lives of women and girls.
$5,000,000
2006
6 years
Research, advocacy, and outreach to promote women's rights
To advocate for gender equality, protecting the rights and improving the lives of women and girls.
$1,000,000
2005
1 year
Towards the second phase of the Illuminated River
To support a scheme for lighting central London’s bridges along the River Thames.
$4,840,000
2019
1 year
Hans Rausing Scholarships endowment fund
To endow a programme of PhD scholarships at Imperial College.
$1,970,100
2008
5 years
Documenting Ukraine fellowships
Documenting Ukraine seeks to contribute to creating a record of the Russo-Ukrainian War by capturing the human experience of that war and making it comprehensible to the broader world. It awards grants to journalists, scholars, public intellectuals, and archivists based in Ukraine.
$1,635,000
2024
3 years
Documenting Ukraine fellowships
To support journalists, scholars, artists, public intellectuals and archivists based in Ukraine.
$540,000
2022
1 year
Promotion of UK philanthropy
To support the Institute’s work to increase the effectiveness of philanthropy through education and raising awareness.
$1,808,500
2004
5 years
Promotion of UK philanthropy
To support the Institute’s work to increase the effectiveness of philanthropy through education and raising awareness.
$1,777,138
2009
5 years
Club of Three: Caucasus Conference 2006
To support a conference on Europe’s relations with, and impact on, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
$94,110
2006
1 year
Core costs of the organisation
To support the Institute’s cultural, educational and policy programmes.
$2,170,173
2008
5 years
Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme
To provide five bursaries for graduates and young professionals from the USA to undertake graduate studies at Oxford University.
$2,623,373
2008
5 years
3D-scanning of heritage sites in Syria and Iraq
To create 3D scans of monuments in Syria and to make the results freely available online.
$196,490
2016
1 year