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 February 2026). 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.
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
Open Research Funders Group
$50,000
2025
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
Theses and Dissertations: Preservation and Access
To preserve graduate theses and dissertations from thousands of institutions and make them freely available online.
$900,160
2025
3 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
Living Landscape Scheme
To create large conservation areas connected by wildlife corridors to protect biodiversity, in collaboration with Kent Wildlife Trust.
$500,000
2010
5 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
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$500,000
2022
3 years
California Language Archive
To provide core support to the California Language Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.
$500,000
2022
5 years
To support the Wildlife Justice Commission’s (WJC’s) core operations.
To support WJC’s mission to support the investigation and prosecution of high-level wildlife crime cases.
$1,190,000
2021
5 years
Ecosystem connectivity in threatened South American landscapes
To work with local partners to conserve and manage threatened high-biodiversity areas.
$1,800,000
2014
3 years
The Age of Extinction series
To support the Age of Extinction series, a reporting project that aims to draw attention to the global biodiversity crisis.
$900,000
2021
3 years
Influencing public policy on climate change
To support work on global climate change agreements.
$176,593
2007
1 year
Acquisition of six properties in Argentina and Chile
To acquire properties of strategic value in Argentina and Chile to expand existing park areas, rewild degraded landscapes and advance biodiversity conservation.
$15,100,000
2019
5 years