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.

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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

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

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

$110,000

2023

1 year

Core support

$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