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.
Halcyon Land & Sea
To work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.
$5,000,000
2013
5 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
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Executive Director's post
To support the leadership of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.
$2,253,272
2013
6 years
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
To collect seeds and build in-country conservation capacity in biodiverse hotspots experiencing rapid and drastic land use changes.
$2,000,000
2013
6 years
Conservation of birds and their habitats
To support BirdLife partners in high-biodiversity countries and to help them protect priority species and habitats.
$1,800,000
2013
6 years
Preserving Bhutan's cultural heritage
To document the oral traditions of Bhutan and make the records freely available online.
$1,422,590
2013
5 years
National Anthropological Archives
To digitize a collection of ethnographic sound recordings and associated manuscripts and make it freely available online.
$1,000,000
2013
3 years
Historical Ice Core Project
Harvard University (Department of History)
http://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/historical-ice-core-heart-europe
To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps and make the results freely available online.
$525,000
2013
4 years
Authors Alliance
To create a nonprofit organization (the Authors Alliance) to represent the interests of academics and other authors whose primary motivation is to disseminate knowledge.
$250,000
2013
1 year
Conservation training in Madagascar
To train young Malagasy, African and European biologists for careers in conservation.
$120,000
2013
1 year
College fellows fund
To support Harvard College Fellows Program.
$10,000,000
2012
4 years
Endowment to Department of History
To support the Millennium Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund and establish the Endowed History Department Chair and the History Department Chair Quasi-Endowment Fund.
$10,000,000
2012
5 years
TARA image project
To preserve the Trust for African Rock Art’s (TARA) photographic archive and make it freely available online.
$1,345,590
2012
6 years
Conservation of East-Atlantic Flyway
To conserve key sites for migratory birds in northern Europe and West Africa.
$900,000
2012
4 years
Rainforest seed conservation
To develop techniques for storing seeds not suitable for traditional seed preservation methods.
$600,000
2012
5 years
Publication of African rock art image collection
To work with the British Museum to preserve, curate and share a photographic archive of more than 20,000 African rock art images and make it freely available online.
$260,000
2012
1 year
Exploration and conservation of African rock art
To provide core support to help TARA’s mission to survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.
$150,000
2012
0 years
Conservation training in Madagascar
To train young Malagasy, African and European biologists for careers in conservation.
$110,241
2012
1 year
Environmental Funders Network
To support the creation and development of a network of environmental funders in the UK.
$105,378
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