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.
Henry Koerner Hall
Towards a new building for student accommodations.
$2,241,088
2017
1 year
Digitization of manuscripts in South-East Asia
To fund large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia and make these freely available online.
$2,173,500
2017
5 years
Towards the Centennial Campaign
To extend the reach of the Council’s fellowship programme.
$2,000,000
2017
4 years
Palestinian Museum Digital Archive
To digitize endangered, dispersed and inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, videos and ephemeral materials representing the culture and history of Palestine from 1800 to the present and make them freely available online.
$1,900,000
2017
3 years
Oceans Campaign
To support a campaign to end illegal fishing and protect marine biodiversity, focussing on West Africa and South-East Asia.
$999,750
2017
5 years
Deep-sea biodiversity conservation in areas beyond national jurisdiction
To support DOSI’s work to provide expert input and guidance for the negotiations of the UN treaty on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction and the International Seabed Authority mining regulations.
$496,000
2017
5 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,053
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open acces
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2017
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
Endangered Archives Programme
To support a grant programme to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration, covering rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century, and to make the records freely available online.
Learn more$11,970,000
2018
7 years
Marine Wildlife Protection
To influence policy that helps to protect and restore marine life and ecosystems in high biodiversity areas.
$10,500,000
2018
7 years
Towards mobile outreach teams to support women and girls most in need
For the Blue Door Fund to support outreach services where they are most needed.
$7,000,000
2018
1 year
Modern Endangered Archives Program
The Regents of the University of California, on behalf of its Los Angeles campus, for the UCLA Library
https://library.ucla.edu/partnerships/modern-endangered-archives-program
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.
Learn more$5,500,000
2018
6 years
A framework to make more books freely available online
To develop technology, policies and partnerships that will help to make more scholarly books freely available for researchers online.
$5,000,000
2018
3 years
Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes
To document heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites from aerial and satellite imagery, and make the results freely available online.
$3,843,700
2018
5 years