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 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.

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Hill Museum and Manuscript Library

Culture
Digitization of manuscripts in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and the Balkans

$5,000,000

2026 | 5 years

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To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and the Balkans and make them freely available online.

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Culture
Mapping Archaeological Pre-Columbian Heritage in South America

$3,004,342

2026 | 2.75 years

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To document the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia, and make the results freely available online.

UCLA Library

Culture
Modern Endangered Archives Program

$2,000,000

2026 | 4 years

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To support a grant programme to digitize endangered printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the 20th and 21st centuries, and make the digitized materials freely available online.

National Centre for Biological Sciences

Culture
Documenting the contemporary history of science in India

$1,800,000

2026 | 5 years

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To collect and digitize at-risk material related to the history of science in South Asia since the early 19th century, and to make the results freely available online.

Historic Environment Scotland

Culture
Digitisation of historic aerial photographs from the Middle East and North Africa

$404,739

2026 | 1 year

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To support the digitization of historic aerial photographs from the Middle East and North Africa to provide accurately geo-referenced mosaics of aerial photographic coverage, and to make the results freely available online.

Dikan Centre

Culture
Digitization of West African archives

$100,000

2026 | 1 year

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To support the Dikan Center to digitize West African archival collections and make the materials freely available online.

Oceana Inc

Nature
Core support

$14,000,000

2025 | 7 years

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To support Oceana's campaigns to protect and restore marine habitats.

Public.Resource.Org

Open Access
Core support

$5,000,000

2025 | 6 years

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To support Public.Resource.Org's work to make edicts of government freely available online.

European Climate Foundation

Nature
European nature law

$2,754,000

2025 | 2.5 years

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To support sound implementation of nature legislation in Europe, with a focus on forest resilience.

EMI Archive Trust

Culture
The Global Gramophone: Early commercial sound recordings around the world

$2,541,000

2025 | 5 years

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To digitize the shellac discs in the so-called ‘Orient’ catalogue, and to make these audio files freely available online.

New York University

Open Access
Library Futures

$2,500,000

2025 | 4 years

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To support librarians, policymakers, and community leaders to get fair access to digital content and services.

Peace Brigades International

Nature
Core support

$2,472,000

2025 | 4 years

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To support Peace Brigades International's work to protect environmental defenders.

University of Hamburg

Culture
Digitization of Manuscripts in Southeast Asia

$2,260,850

2025 | 5 years

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To support large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia and make these freely available online.

Code for Science and Society

Open Access
The IOI Fund for Network Adoption

$1,800,000

2025 | 4 years

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To establish a grant programme to fund networks that support open access to research.

Environmental Defenders Collaborative

Nature
Core support

$1,210,000

2025 | 4 years

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To support frontline communities and ally networks defending rights to their lands, livelihoods, and culture in the face of violence, repression, and destructive industries.

Stiftelsen Språkmuseet

Culture
Språkmuseet

$1,052,520

2025 | 1 year

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To establish a language museum in Stockholm.

Stichting Internet Archive

Open Access
Theses and Dissertations: Preservation and Access

$900,160

2025 | 3 years

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To preserve graduate theses and dissertations from thousands of institutions and make them freely available online.

National Yiddish Book Center Inc

Open Access
The Universal Yiddish Library

$750,000

2025 | 3 years

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To digitize Yiddish books and make them freely available online.

Creative Commons

Open Access
Open Infrastructure Circle

$600,000

2025 | 3 years

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To support the technical and legal maintenance of Creative Commons Licenses.

University of Cape Town

Culture
Five Hundred Year Archive

$565,675

2025 | 5 years

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To support a digital archive of southern African cultural heritage to digitize endangered material and keep it freely available online.