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 February 2026). 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.
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Collaborative Conservation Research Fund
To support collaborative research among the Cambridge Conservation Initiative partners.
$1,500,000
2016
3 years
Combating illegal and unsustainable logging in tropical forests
To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate-critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses. This is vital for combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.
$668,449
2016
3 years
Miriam Rothschild Travel Bursary Programme
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science.
$549,400
2016
6 years
Historical Ice Core Project
Harvard University (Department of History)
http://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/historical-ice-core-heart-europe
To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps and make the results freely available online.
$495,000
2016
3 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Endangered Landscapes Programme - Inception Phase
To support preparatory work by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative on a grant programme for large-scale habitat restoration projects in Europe.
Learn more$305,000
2016
2 years
Core funding for organization
To support Public.Resource.Org’s work to make legal statutes and technical and safety standards freely available online.
$300,000
2016
3 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2016
1 year
Open Syllabus Project
To support the Open Syllabus Project in building the first large-scale online database of titles of works used in millions of university course syllabi.
$220,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2016
1 year
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
Supporting the Office of Scholarly Communication
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,267
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2016
1 year
Endangered Landscapes Programme
To support a grant programme to support large-scale projects to restore biodiversity-rich habitats across Europe at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.
Learn more$31,436,821
2017
7 years
Halcyon Programmes and core institutional support
To provide core support for Fauna & Flora and support its work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.
$25,960,684
2017
6 years
Illuminated River Project
To support a scheme for lighting central London’s bridges along the River Thames.
$6,162,728
2017
3 years
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$5,000,000
2017
1 year
Ibera National Park
To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing ecologically important land next to Iberá National Park in Argentina.
$3,000,000
2017
1 year