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.
Reforms to Deliver the Right to Culture, Learning and Research through Libraries
To promote copyright law reform and regulation at EU and national level to enable libraries to facilitate greater access to and use of copyrighted works for cultural, educational and research purposes.
$3,630,000
2020
3 years
The Knowledge Rights 21 Programme (phase II)
To promote copyright law reform and regulation at EU and national level to enable libraries to facilitate greater access to and use of copyrighted works for cultural, educational and research purposes.
$6,050,000
2024
5 years
Conservation of Freshwater Biodiversity in Key River Ecosystems
International Rivers
https://www.internationalrivers.org/blogs/734/protecting-freshwater-biodiversity-how-international-r
To support International Rivers’ work to influence how rivers are governed, protected in law and valued to help ensure our rivers continue to support diverse habitats and wildlife.
$1,250,000
2018
5 years
Global Urban Alliance
International Union for Conservation of Nature
https://iucn.org/news/secretariat/201809/iucn-launches-global-alliance-greener-cities
To establish a global alliance to develop and promote a standard set of indicators on urban ecosystem health that enable cities to identify the challenges of becoming greener environments and evaluate their efforts to do so.
$434,700
2020
3 years
Opening access to conservation knowledge
To increase the online accessibility of conservation research publications.
$442,800
2021
3 years
Core support
Core support for the work of the College.
$110,000
2023
1 year
Core support
Core support for the work of the College.
$108,000
2024
1 year
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$250,000
2022
1 year
Digitizing MIT Press backlist titles
To digitize 1,500 MIT Press titles and make them freely available online.
$50,000
2017
1 year
Enhancing Unlocked University Press Books
To create high quality EPUB files of scanned university press books, to enhance the reader experience.
$2,000,000
2018
2 years
Improving digital preservation
To improve and promote best practices for the long-term preservation of materials stored on tape and disk.
$250,000
2011
2 years
Unlocking University Press Books
To digitize more than 15,000 volumes of published monographs from university libraries and make them available via Internet Archive’s controlled digital lending platform.
$1,003,300
2018
4 years
Earth Journalism Network
To support local journalists to investigate and report worldwide on the threats to biodiversity and nature-based solutions.
$450,000
2015
4 years
Earth Journalism Network - Biodiversity Media Initiative
To support local journalists to investigate and report worldwide on the threats to biodiversity and nature-based solutions.
$750,000
2020
3 years
Core costs
To help IntoUniversity deliver its mission to establish local learning centres that inspire young people to achieve.
$256,838
2018
1 year
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
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
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