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 July 2024). 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.
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,053
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open acces
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$200,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2017
1 year
Core costs of the organisation
To give free access to educational resources.
$250,000
2017
1 year
Digitization of manuscripts in the Middle East and Africa
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and India and to make them available for free online.
$4,000,000
2016
5 years
Core costs of the organisation
To give free access to educational resources.
$250,000
2016
1 year
Historical Ice Core Project
Harvard University (Department of History)
http://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/historical-ice-core-heart-europe
To continue extraction and interpretation of data from an ice core documenting European climate in the last 3,500 years.
$495,000
2016
3 years
3D-scanning of heritage sites in Syria and Iraq
To create 3D scans of monuments in Syria and to publish all materials online for free.
$196,490
2016
1 year
Patagonia National Park
To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing land adjacent to the Patagonia Park, which contains key access points and valuable habitat for threatened wildlife.
$3,370,000
2016
2 years
Documentation of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa
To continue support for the documentation of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on the ground survey.
$2,774,064
2016
5 years
Core funding for organization
To continue support for Public.Resource.Org's work, making legal statutes and technical and safety standards mandated by law available online for free.
$300,000
2016
3 years
Open Syllabus Project
To support the Open Syllabus Project in building the first large-scale online database of titles of works listed in university course syllabi.
$220,000
2016
1 year
Miriam Rothschild Travel Bursary Programme
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science
$549,400
2016
6 years
Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (ELTI)
To train conservation practitioners in tropical Asia and Central America to enable them to take responsibility for local and national conservation, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
$4,978,000
2016
6 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Collaborative Conservation Research Fund
To support collaborative research among the initiative's partners to address high priority biodiversity conservation issues.
$1,500,000
2016
3 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Endowment of Directorship
To establish an endowment fund for the Cambridge Conservation Intiative Directorship
$10,000,000
2016
11 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Endangered Landscapes Programme - Inception Phase
To enable CCI to conduct the preparatory work to establish a re-granting programme dedicated to supporting projects to create habitats that are rich in biodiversity and resillent to environmental change, and to sharing novel replicable techniques that can achieve this.
Learn more$305,000
2016
2 years