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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Maritime Asia Heritage Survey

To document endangered heritage sites from Maritime Southern Asia: Thailand, Indonesia and the Maldives, and make the results freely available online.

$6,253,809

2020

5 years

Open Book Futures

To develop services and resources to support open-access book publishing by small-to-medium-sized publishers, non-profits and scholarly libraries.

$3,429,600

2023

3 years

Legacy Landscapes Fund Learning Event

To support the costs of a workshop for Legacy Landscape Fund's partners to encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing.

$54,000

2025

1 year

Legacy Landscapes Fund match grants

Match funding to create long-term endowments for the conservation of large landscapes centred on Chiribiquete (Colombia), Makira-Masoala (Madagascar) and Tambrauw (Indonesia).

$25,000,000

2023

1 year

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

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

Chapel restoration project

To provide essential repairs to the 13th Century former Archbishop’s palace that now serves as the Chapel for Mayfield School, ensuring its continued use and preserving the Chapel’s historic fabric.

$605,000

2025

1 year

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