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 July 2024). 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.
Henry Koerner Hall
Towards a new building for student accommodations
$2,241,088
2017
1 year
Endangered Landscapes Programme
The Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme gives grants for large-scale restoration projects across Europe’s land and seas. The programme supports projects that will restore extensive areas of terrestrial and marine habitat so that they are resilient and self-sustaining.
Learn more$31,436,821
2017
7 years
Towards the Centennial Campaign
To extend the reach of the Council's fellowship programme
$2,000,000
2017
4 years
Ibera National Park
To purchase a piece of land beside Ibera National Park
$3,000,000
2017
1 year
Deep-sea biodiversity conservation in areas beyond national jurisdiction
To enable the Deep Ocean Stewardship Initiative to provide expert input into the negotiations of the incipient UN treaty on Biodiversity Beyond National Jurisdiction (UN BBNJ) and International Seabed Authority (ISA) mining regulations, to ensure that they are fit for purpose and enforceable.
$496,000
2017
5 years
Oceans Campaign
To support the Environmental Justice Foundation's Oceans Campaign to end illegal fishing and protect marine biodiversity, with a focus on West Africa and South-East Asia.
$999,750
2017
5 years
Digitizing MIT Press backlist titles
Digitizing an initial group of 1,500 MIT Press titles at Internet Archive’s Boston Public Library facility to make them more widely available.
$50,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,053
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2017
1 year
Halcyon Programmes and core institutional support
To consolidate and expand the success of both the Halcyon Land & Sea Fund and the Halcyon Marine Programme to date, increasing their focus on long-term sustainability, and addressing the recommendations from Arcadia’s external evaluation of both programmes.
$25,960,684
2017
6 years
Digitization of manuscripts in South-East Asia
To fund large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia, and to make these available in an open-access online archive.
$2,173,500
2017
5 years
Advancing open acces
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$200,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2017
1 year
Core costs of the organisation
To give free access to educational resources.
$250,000
2017
1 year
Digitization of manuscripts in the Middle East and Africa
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and India and to make them available for free online.
$4,000,000
2016
5 years
Core costs of the organisation
To give free access to educational resources.
$250,000
2016
1 year
Historical Ice Core Project
Harvard University (Department of History)
http://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/historical-ice-core-heart-europe
To continue extraction and interpretation of data from an ice core documenting European climate in the last 3,500 years.
$495,000
2016
3 years
Patagonia National Park
To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing land adjacent to the Patagonia Park, which contains key access points and valuable habitat for threatened wildlife.
$3,370,000
2016
2 years