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.
Computerised Access to the Records of the Linnean Society (CARLS)
To digitize the Society’s collections and make them freely available online.
$889,200
2005
1 year
Preserving the Full Legacy of Yiddish Poet A. N. Stencl
To collect and digitize endangered archival material related to the Yiddish poet Abraham Nahum Stencl (1897-1983) and make the results freely available online.
$314,763
2024
2 years
Changing US ocean management
To support work to improve marine spatial planning (co-ordinated protection of the oceans) in US Government ocean policy.
$500,000
2010
4 years
Changing US ocean management
To support work to improve marine spatial planning (co-ordinated protection of the oceans) in US Government ocean policy.
$500,000
2009
2 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support the Institute’s work to secure lasting protections for marine habitats.
$1,500,000
2007
1 year
Core costs of the organisation
To support the Institute’s work to secure lasting protections for marine habitats.
$1,050,000
2011
3 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support the Institute’s work to secure lasting protections for marine habitats.
$450,000
2010
4 years
Inventory of Maritime Archaeology in Pakistan
Pilot project to create an inventory of maritime archaeological resources in Pakistan and make the results freely available online.
$495,354
2021
2 years
Arcadia Open Access Fund
Towards a matched endowment to support open-access programmes at MIT Press, including open monographs, open journals and open publishing services.
$10,000,000
2022
6 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Masters in Conservation Leadership
Masters in Conservation Leadership - University of Cambridge
https://www.cambridgeconservation.org/our-work/mphil-in-conservation-leadership/
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge MPhil in Conservation Leadership.
$3,000,000
2022
10 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Masters in Conservation Leadership
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge MPhil in Conservation Leadership.
$1,625,000
2015
5 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Masters in Conservation Leadership
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge MPhil in Conservation Leadership.
$1,400,000
2011
5 years
Books for schools programme
To give a copy of each title in the Everyman collection to every state secondary school in the UK.
$284,544
2005
1 year
MIT OpenCourseWare
To support an initiative to make educational materials from MIT’s undergraduate- and graduate-level courses freely available online.
$100,000
2022
1 year
The next generation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare
To support an initiative to make educational materials from MIT’s undergraduate- and graduate-level courses freely available online.
$100,000
2021
1 year
Converting University Press Monograph Publishing to Open Access
To develop a strategy and business plan for converting MIT Press monograph publishing to open access, and provide a transition fund to support open access monographs at the MIT Press while it implements the changes.
$850,000
2019
3 years
Director's discretionary fund
To support open access initiatives within or outside MIT, as identified by the MIT Press Director.
$500,000
2022
3 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
Secondary school bursaries
To support young women in Uganda to gain skills that will benefit their lives and communities.
$5,000,000
2005
7 years
Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
https://www8.nationalacademies.org/pa/projectview.aspx?key=51293
To bring together stakeholders from universities, funding agencies, societies, foundations and industry to discuss the effectiveness of current incentives for adopting Open Science practices.
$100,000
2019
2 years