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.
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
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Endowment of Directorship
To establish an endowment fund for the Cambridge Conservation Initiative Directorship.
$10,000,000
2016
11 years
Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (ELTI)
To provide training for conservation practitioners in Asia and Central America.
$4,978,000
2016
6 years
Digitization of manuscripts in the Middle East and Africa
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and to make them freely available online.
$4,000,000
2016
5 years
Patagonia National Park
To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing ecologically important land next to Patagonia Park in Chile.
$3,370,000
2016
2 years
Reducing Trade Threats to Africa’s Wild Species and Ecosystems (ReTTa)
To strengthen actions to reduce the illegal and unsustainable trade of African wild species to Asia through data gathering, information sharing, engagement and innovative interventions.
$3,000,000
2016
4 years
Documentation of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa
To document endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and make the data freely available online.
$2,774,064
2016
5 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Collaborative Conservation Research Fund
To support collaborative research among the Cambridge Conservation Initiative partners.
$1,500,000
2016
3 years
Combating illegal and unsustainable logging in tropical forests
To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate-critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses. This is vital for combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.
$668,449
2016
3 years
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
Historical Ice Core Project
Harvard University (Department of History)
http://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/historical-ice-core-heart-europe
To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps and make the results freely available online.
$495,000
2016
3 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Endangered Landscapes Programme - Inception Phase
To support preparatory work by the Cambridge Conservation Initiative on a grant programme for large-scale habitat restoration projects in Europe.
Learn more$305,000
2016
2 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 costs of the organisation
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2016
1 year
Open Syllabus Project
To support the Open Syllabus Project in building the first large-scale online database of titles of works used in millions of university course syllabi.
$220,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2016
1 year
3D-scanning of heritage sites in Syria and Iraq
To create 3D scans of monuments in Syria and to make the results freely available online.
$196,490
2016
1 year
Supporting the Office of Scholarly Communication
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,267
2016
1 year