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.
Dead Sea Scrolls online database
To develop resources related to the Dead Sea Scrolls and make them freely available online.
$1,000,000
2010
4 years
Scholars at Risk
To start a programme in Israel, providing short-term positions for academics at risk.
$57,285
2005
1 year
Universal Library Project
To research the feasibility of developing a universal digital library.
$50,000
2007
1 year
Arches Endowment
To support the Arches open-source software platform, including the software’s maintenance and technology upgrades, ongoing enhancements, and advancing the capacity of the world-wide open-source community to implement Arches.
$1,500,000
2025
1 year
Arches Endowment
To support the Arches open-source software platform, including the software’s maintenance and technology upgrades, ongoing enhancements, and advancing the capacity of the world-wide open-source community to implement Arches.
$1,000,000
2024
1 year
Chief scientific officer's post
To provide advice to the Trust and its partners on wild land conservation and biodiversity management.
$302,420
2008
3 years
Digitizing the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection
To digitize items from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of rare books and manuscripts on the history of forgery, and make them freely available online.
$222,825
2022
1 year
Digitizing the Women of the Book collection and the George Peabody Library collection
To digitize two collections from the Sheridan Libraries Special Collections; the Women of the Book collection and the George Peabody Library’s signature holdings, and make the results freely available online.
$235,000
2019
1 year
Living Landscape Scheme
To create large conservation areas connected by wildlife corridors to protect biodiversity, in collaboration with Sussex Wildlife Trust.
$500,000
2010
5 years
Impact assessment of digitised collections
To research methods of assessing the impact of digitized collections.
$143,000
2011
1 year
Sudan Memory project review
To review and further develop best practice models for cultural heritage digitization, using the Sudan Memory project as the starting point.
$125,470.80
2024
1 year
Maritime Asia Heritage Survey
To document endangered heritage sites from Maritime Southern Asia: Thailand, Indonesia and the Maldives, and make the results freely available online.
$6,253,809
2020
5 years
Open Book Futures
To develop services and resources to support open-access book publishing by small-to-medium-sized publishers, non-profits and scholarly libraries.
$3,429,600
2023
3 years
Legacy Landscapes Fund Learning Event
To support the costs of a workshop for Legacy Landscape Fund's partners to encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing.
$54,000
2025
1 year
Legacy Landscapes Fund match grants
Match funding to create long-term endowments for the conservation of large landscapes centred on Chiribiquete (Colombia), Makira-Masoala (Madagascar) and Tambrauw (Indonesia).
$25,000,000
2023
1 year
Computerised Access to the Records of the Linnean Society (CARLS)
To digitize the Society’s collections and make them freely available online.
$889,200
2005
1 year
Preserving the Full Legacy of Yiddish Poet A. N. Stencl
To collect and digitize endangered archival material related to the Yiddish poet Abraham Nahum Stencl (1897-1983) and make the results freely available online.
$314,763
2024
2 years
Changing US ocean management
To support work to improve marine spatial planning (co-ordinated protection of the oceans) in US Government ocean policy.
$500,000
2010
4 years
Changing US ocean management
To support work to improve marine spatial planning (co-ordinated protection of the oceans) in US Government ocean policy.
$500,000
2009
2 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support the Institute’s work to secure lasting protections for marine habitats.
$1,500,000
2007
1 year