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.

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Converting University Press Monograph Publishing to Open Access

To develop a strategy and business plan for converting MIT Press monograph publishing to open access, and provide a transition fund to support open access monographs at the MIT Press while it implements the changes.

$850,000

2019

3 years

Director's discretionary fund

To support open access initiatives within or outside MIT, as identified by the MIT Press Director.

$500,000

2022

3 years

Towards mobile outreach teams to support women and girls most in need

For the Blue Door Fund to support outreach services where they are most needed.

$7,000,000

2018

1 year

Secondary school bursaries

To support young women in Uganda to gain skills that will benefit their lives and communities.

$5,000,000

2005

7 years

Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science

To bring together stakeholders from universities, funding agencies, societies, foundations and industry to discuss the effectiveness of current incentives for adopting Open Science practices.

$100,000

2019

2 years

Documenting the contemporary history of science in India

To collect and digitize at-risk material related to the history of science in South Asia since the early 19th century, and to make the results freely available online, along with a prototype tool for interpretation and access, and public annotation of archival material.

$440,000

2022

3 years

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

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