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.
Environmental Funders Network
To support the development and effective management of the network.
$105,378
2012
4 years
TARA image project
To preserve and curate the Trust for African Rock Art's (TARA) photographic archive of more than 20,000 images, and make it available for free online.
$1,345,590
2012
6 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 images and make it available for free online.
$260,000
2012
1 year
Endowment to Department of History
To establish the Endowed History Department Chair and History Department Chair Quasi-Endowment Fund.
$10,000,000
2012
5 years
History of Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism (Toledot Torat Hasod Ha'ivrit)
To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan’s multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism.
$150,000
2011
3 years
Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (ELTI)
To train conservation practitioners in tropical Asia and Central America to enable them to take responsibility for local and national conservation, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
$5,500,000
2011
7 years
Whitley Awards
To support the careers of award winners.
$150,000
2011
1 year
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.
$1,400,000
2011
5 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Collaborative Conservation Research Fund
To support collaborative research among the initiative's partners to address high priority biodiversity conservation issues.
$1,500,000
2011
5 years
Mosfell Archaeological Project
To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies and Vikingaminjar ehf.
$400,000
2011
3 years
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To digitize palimpsests in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, using multispectral photography.
$2,100,000
2011
5 years
Improving digital preservation
To improve and promote best practices for preserving files stored on tape and disk for ten or more years.
$250,000
2011
2 years
Digitization of manuscripts in the Middle East and Africa
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and India and to make them available for free online.
$3,000,000
2011
5 years
Halcyon Marine Initiative
To create properly managed refuges for marine life whilst longer term systemic changes are made.
$5,000,000
2011
4 years
International Digital Ephemera Project
To digitize, preserve and provide free online access to endangered modern printed and digital ephemera.
$3,414,109
2011
7 years
Impact assessment of digitised collections
To research and test the best methods of assessing the impact of digitised collections.
$143,000
2011
1 year
Mosfell Archaeological Project
To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with UCLA and the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies.
$100,000
2011
2 years
Halcyon Land & Sea
To secure important areas of natural habitat and ensure their associated wildlife will survive.
$800,000
2011
1 year
Mosfell Archaeological Project
To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies and Vikingaminjar ehf.
$100,000
2011
2 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support organisational development.
$1,050,000
2011
3 years