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.
Digitizing Israeli Ephemera
To collect, digitize and preserve printed ephemera from the early history of modern Israel and make them freely available online.
$1,991,702
2011
4 years
Maktoub - Digital preservation and open access to Arabic and Islamic manuscripts and rare books
To digitize manuscripts and books, including the Yahuda collection and Arab-Palestinian collection, and make them freely available online with metadata in Arabic and English.
$780,485
2019
1 year
An oral history of farming, land management and conservation in post-war Britain
To develop an oral history archive of experiences of the change in farming practices, landownership and land management in Britain after 1945 and make it freely available online via the British Library.
$419,427
2018
4 years
Towards making materials on Danish Jewish in World War II available to wider audiences
Network for the Study of Nazism and the Holocaust
https://www.sdu.dk/da/om_sdu/institutter_centre/ih/forskning/forskningsnetvaerk/nnhs
To translate a website and exhibits on Danish Jewish deportees to Theresienstadt in 1943-4 into Czech, English, German and Swedish, and make the results freely available online.
$26,100
2021
1 year
Religion and Democracy in Europe
To research how Europe can peacefully accommodate changing attitudes to religion without compromising secular democratic freedoms.
$19,472
2007
1 year
Locking the higher education data market “open” for competition
To support academic community control of key research communication infrastructure.
$75,000
2019
1 year
Open Access Button
To develop free, open-source tools to help libraries find open-access copies of publications.
$422,000
2018
2 years
Strengthening open access in the USA.
To support policy and advocacy work to improve open access to research outputs in the United States and support academic community control of key research communication infrastructure.
$500,000
2021
3 years
Strengthening open access in the USA
To support policy and advocacy work to improve open access to research outputs in the United States.
$6,000,000
2024
6 years
A framework to make more books freely available online
To develop technology, policies and partnerships that will help to make more scholarly books freely available for researchers online.
$5,000,000
2018
3 years
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2023
1 year
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2022
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2024
1 year