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 March 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.
FragDenStaat: Democratising Public Databases
To make German government documents and unfairly restricted information freely available online.
$1,205,100
2023
4 years
Core costs
To support Open Syllabus in its mission to gather and analyse academic syllabi and make this information freely available online.
$1,500,000
2020
3 years
Towards core costs
To support Open Syllabus in its mission to gather and analyse academic syllabi and make this information freely available online.
$1,750,000
2022
2 years
OpenAlex: a free index for the world's research
To support the growth, development and institutional use of an open and comprehensive index of scholarly works, authors and institutions.
$7,500,000
2024
5 years
Search engine for open access scholarly content
To build and support a new, non-profit free search engine that will make it easy for the public to access peer-reviewed literature.
$850,000
2018
2 years
Tools to steer academic systems to open research
To provide tools and data which make open-access research easier to find and use and to help libraries and researchers make better decisions.
$4,500,000
2021
3 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 to make them freely available online.
$1,900,000
2020
3 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
Pesticide Free Towns
To support a campaign to end pesticide use by councils and other land managers in towns in the UK.
$110,400
2021
1 year
Liberating species descriptions from in-copyright journal articles
To support work to extract taxonomic data from scientific publications and make them findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), and to promote the resulting repository as the standard in the taxonomic community.
$1,298,000
2018
3 years
Liberating taxonomic treatments
To support work to extract taxonomic data from scientific publications and make them findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), and to promote the resulting repository as the standard in the taxonomic community.
$1,785,000
2022
3 years
The Einstein Papers Project
To preserve the archive of Einstein’s scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and make it freely available online.
$300,000
2023
3 years
Core costs
To support Public.Resource.Org’s work to make legal statutes and technical and safety standards freely available online.
$200,000
2014
2 years
Core funding
To enable Public.Resource.Org to expand its work in three key areas: access to edicts of government, text and data mining and access to knowledge.
$5,000,000
2020
5 years
Core funding
To support Public.Resource.Org’s work to make legal statutes and technical and safety standards freely available online.
$1,500,000
2018
3 years
Core funding for organization
To support Public.Resource.Org’s work to make legal statutes and technical and safety standards freely available online.
$300,000
2016
3 years
Core support to re:wild
To provide core support to re:wild to help it expand its work as a regranting partner and fiscal sponsor for nature conservation organizations worldwide.
$6,000,000
2022
5 years
Rewilding Argentina Ibera Wildfire Crisis Fund
To provide a donation to Rewilding Argentina’s Iberá Wildlife Crisis Fund, paid through its fiscal sponsor re:wild.
$100,000
2022
1 year
Advancing rewilding across Europe
To promote nature restoration across Europe through the development of innovative models, including a grant programme to accelerate wildlife comeback in Europe.
$4,999,995
2022
5 years
Advancing Rewilding in Europe
To support work to restore nature in Europe by: encouraging wildlife comeback, improving policy frameworks to facilitate rewilding, and developing new models to mobilise financial sector support for rewilding.
$1,776,641
2019
3 years