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
2014
1 year
Enabling digital access to books
To improve discovery and availability of digital books via libraries, build a corpus of freely- or easily-accessible digital books; pilot and scale innovative models to negotiate rights to serve more books digitally; and identify more titles to make available digitally.
$15,000,000
2024
3 years
To support NYPL's digital work
To make in-copyright books more widely available online via NYPL’s Digital Research Books platform.
$5,000,000
2022
1 year
Arabic Collections Online
To help digitize 23,000 books from NYU Library’s Arabic collections and make them freely available online.
$1,340,000
2018
3 years
Baltic Sea Campaign
To enforce existing laws and regulations to reduce illegal fishing and identify areas in need of protection.
$1,000,000
2010
2 years
Campaigns to protect and restore the world's oceans
To promote fishing policies that protect habitats in the Americas, tropical Asia and Europe.
$5,000,000
2013
5 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support organizational consolidation and develop a focus on protecting and supporting biodiversity.
$5,250,000
2007
1 year
Core costs of the organisation
To support organizational consolidation and develop a focus on protecting and supporting biodiversity.
$2,550,000
2010
4 years
Marine Wildlife Protection
To influence policy that helps to protect and restore marine life and ecosystems in high biodiversity areas.
$10,500,000
2018
7 years
Core costs to the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition
To support DSCC’s work to protect deep-sea ecosystems from fishing and mining, and strengthen biodiversity conservation and governance in international oceans.
$339,000
2023
3 years
Towards the development phase of a new film by Lizzie MacKenzie.
Towards the development phase of a documentary film by Lizzie MacKenzie.
$26,000
2022
1 year
FragDenStaat: Democratising Public Databases
To make German government documents and unfairly restricted information freely available online.
$1,205,100
2023
4 years
Core costs
To support Open Syllabus in its mission to gather and analyse academic syllabi and make this information freely available online.
$1,500,000
2020
3 years
Towards core costs
To support Open Syllabus in its mission to gather and analyse academic syllabi and make this information freely available online.
$1,750,000
2022
2 years
OpenAlex: a free index for the world's research
To support the growth, development and institutional use of an open and comprehensive index of scholarly works, authors and institutions.
$7,500,000
2024
5 years
Search engine for open access scholarly content
To build and support a new, non-profit free search engine that will make it easy for the public to access peer-reviewed literature.
$850,000
2018
2 years
Tools to steer academic systems to open research
To provide tools and data which make open-access research easier to find and use and to help libraries and researchers make better decisions.
$4,500,000
2021
3 years
Palestinian Museum Digital Archive
To digitize endangered, dispersed and inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, videos and ephemeral materials representing the culture and history of Palestine from 1800 to the present and to make them freely available online.
$1,900,000
2020
3 years
Palestinian Museum Digital Archive
To digitize endangered, dispersed and inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, videos and ephemeral materials representing the culture and history of Palestine from 1800 to the present and make them freely available online.
$1,900,000
2017
3 years
Pesticide Free Towns
To support a campaign to end pesticide use by councils and other land managers in towns in the UK.
$110,400
2021
1 year