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.

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Strategic

Grant recipient

Advancing open access

To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials

$100,000

2014

1 year

Ecosystem connectivity in threatened South American landscapes

To secure new areas of high biodiversity value under conservation management, in collaboration with local partners

$1,800,000

2014

3 years

Open Access Initiative

$300,000

2014

1 year

Wikipedia Zero

To expand Wikipedia Zero, which gives free, mobile access to Wikipedia to people who cannot afford mobile data costs.

$100,000

2014

1 year

Halcyon Land & Sea

To secure important areas of natural habitat and ensure their associated wildlife will survive.

$5,000,000

2013

5 years

Authors Alliance

To improve public access to knowledge by promoting open access.

$250,000

2013

1 year

Preserving Bhutan's cultural heritage

To document the oral traditions of Bhutan and make the records available for free online.

$1,422,590

2013

5 years

National Anthropological Archives

To digitize a collection of ethnographic sound recordings and associated manuscripts and to make it available for free online.

$1,000,000

2013

3 years

Historical Ice Core Project

To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps.

$525,000

2013

4 years

Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Executive Director's post

To develop and consolidate the initiative.

$2,253,272

2013

6 years

Conservation of birds and their habitats

To build the capacity of national Birdlife partners in high-biodiversity countries, to ensure that priority species and habitats are sustainably managed.

$1,800,000

2013

6 years

Conservation training in Madagascar

To train young African biologists to develop careers in conservation.

$120,000

2013

1 year

Millennium Seed Bank Partnership

To expand the partnership's work in biodiversity rich low- and middle-income countries.

$2,000,000

2013

6 years

Campaigns to protect and restore the world's oceans

To reduce habitat destruction by changing fishing policies in the Americas, tropical Asia and Europe.

$5,000,000

2013

5 years

Exploration and conservation of African rock art

To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

$150,000

2012

0 years

College fellows fund

To support Harvard College Fellows Program

$10,000,000

2012

4 years

Coastal conservation in West Africa

To campaign against large-scale, illegal and undocumented fishing in West African coastal waters.

$100,000

2012

2 years

Rainforest seed conservation

To develop techniques for storing seeds not suitable for traditional seed protocols.

$600,000

2012

5 years

Conservation training in Madagascar

To train young African biologists to develop careers in conservation.

$110,241

2012

1 year

Conservation of East-Atlantic Flyway

To conserve key sites for migratory birds in northern Europe and West Africa.

$900,000

2012

4 years