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.
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme gives grants to linguists and community members to document languages around the world that are at risk of falling silent. The programme makes the digital documentation of these languages freely available online.
$11,026,080
2015
7 years
The Hall of Graduate Studies
To refurbish the Hall of Graduate Studies and to support the programmatic agenda that will transform it into a central home for the humanities at Yale
$25,000,000
2015
3 years
Developing non-destructive methods to read texts in mummy cartonnages
To assess the feasibility of nondestructive digital imaging technology to read texts on papyri in mummy cartonnages. All data, findings and methodologies will be freely available online for further research.
$83,000
2015
2 years
Legal tools for open access to academic publications
To develop legal tools for open access to academic publications
$451,782
2015
3 years
Halcyon Marine Initiative
To create properly managed refuges for marine life whilst longer term systemic changes are made
$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 Masters in Conservation Leadership.
$1,625,000
2015
5 years
Earth Journalism Network
To support capacity building of local journalists to investigate and report worldwide on the threats to biodiversity and conservation-based solutions.
$450,000
2015
4 years
Conservation Evidence
To help conservation practitioners to make effective decisions by publishing and disseminating evidence-based conservation strategies.
$1,060,000
2015
5 years
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$200,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access to PhD theses
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials. Part of the funds went towards digitizing 1,400 PhD theses from microfilm, to make them more easily available online.
$77,967
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2015
1 year
Support for the University of California Berkeley Library
$5,000,000
2014
2 years
Operating and acquisition costs
To preserve, catalogue and digitise Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
$5,000,000
2014
5 years
The Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History
To endow the Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History
$5,000,000
2014
1 year
Coastal conservation in West Africa
To campaign against large-scale, illegal and undocumented fishing in West African coastal waters.
$450,000
2014
4 years
Conservation training in Africa
To train African biodiversity conservation professionals.
$486,358
2014
3 years
Documenting Mandaean rituals and religious traditions
To document the rituals and priestly knowledge of the Mandaeans and to make the records available for free online.
$348,556
2014
3 years