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.
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
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
To collect seeds and build in-country conservation capacity in biodiverse hotspots experiencing rapid and drastic land use changes.
$2,000,000
2013
6 years
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
To collect seeds and build in-country conservation capacity in biodiverse hotspots experiencing rapid and drastic land use changes.
$1,348,479
2009
5 years
Improving Biodiversity
Towards the restoration of the historic lake, construction of the new lake, and other work to improve the biodiversity of the gardens at the RHS Bridgewater site.
$642,096
2019
1 year
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
To support a grant programme to document languages which are at risk of extinction, and build a digital archive to make the results freely available online.
$11,026,080
2015
7 years
On the ground conservation work in the trust's wildlife reserves
Towards work on the Perthshire wildlife reserves and on the Largiebaan restoration project.
$256,838
2018
1 year
Field book project - South America
To digitize travellers’ and naturalists’ field manuscripts on South America from 1800 to 2000 and make them freely available online.
$511,200
2015
3 years
National Anthropological Archives
To digitize a collection of ethnographic sound recordings and associated manuscripts and make it freely available online.
$1,000,000
2013
3 years
Underground Explorers Programme
To support the programme's work to map and protect soil fungal diversity.
$1,500,000
2024
3 years
Achieving open access through copyright reform
To support research, publication and advocacy for global copyright reform to provide greater access to academic research.
$165,000
2019
2 years
Strategic influence on digital policy making in the EU
To set up and support a strategic advocacy organization that will increase the ability of the open movement to strategically influence digital policy-making in the European Union.
$1,177,050
2020
4 years
Digitizing historical Swedish newspapers
To digitize Swedish newspapers that are out of copyright (1645-1906) and make them freely available online.
$3,600,000
2018
4 years
Digitizing historical Swedish newspapers II
To digitize Swedish newspapers that are out of copyright (1645-1906) and make them freely available online.
$1,800,000
2020
2 years
Rainforest seed conservation
To develop techniques for storing seeds not suitable for traditional seed preservation methods.
$600,000
2012
5 years
Eternal Mongolia - Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund
To complete the match fund for a newly established Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund which will oversee the Eternal Mongolia Project Finance for Permanence initiative.
$6,000,000
2024
5 years