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.
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2016
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
Halcyon Marine Initiative
To work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich marine habitats.
$3,750,000
2015
4 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Masters in Conservation Leadership
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge MPhil in Conservation Leadership.
$1,625,000
2015
5 years
Conservation Evidence
To publish and make widely available evidence-based conservation strategies to help conservation practitioners make effective decisions.
$1,060,000
2015
5 years
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
Legal tools for open access to academic publications
To develop legal tools for open access to academic publications.
$451,782
2015
3 years
Earth Journalism Network
To support local journalists to investigate and report worldwide on the threats to biodiversity and nature-based solutions.
$450,000
2015
4 years
Documentation of archaeological archives in Egypt
British Museum
http://britishmuseum.org/about_us/departments/egypt_and_sudan/egypt_documentation_project.aspx
To provide training for Egyptian heritage specialists to digitize and publish online glass plate photographs of early archaeological displays.
$336,304
2015
2 years
Documentation of rock-cut churches in Ethiopia
To document the disappearing craft of cutting rock churches in Ethiopia and make the records freely available online.
$250,000
2015
3 years
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
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2015
1 year
Developing non-destructive methods to read texts in mummy cartonnages
To research non-destructive digital imaging technology to read texts on papyri in mummy cartonnages and make the results freely available online.
$83,000
2015
2 years
Advancing open access to PhD theses
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$77,967
2015
1 year