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.
Miriam Rothschild Travel Bursary Programme
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science.
$500,000
2011
5 years
Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
To build a new cultural conservation and digitization centre at Yale University.
$25,000,000
2011
5 years
Berkman Center for Internet and Society
To promote open access at Harvard, and other universities and institutions, through consultation and collaboration, exploring cyberspace, sharing in its study & pioneering its development.
$1,000,000
2011
4 years
Digital Public Library of America
To develop a working prototype of the Digital Public Library of America platform.
$2,500,000
2011
3 years
EU Common Fisheries Policy reform
To develop an effective, enforceable framework for sustainable, biodiversity-friendly fisheries management.
$250,000
2011
2 years
Mosfell Archaeological Project
To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with UCLA and Vikingaminjar ehf.
$100,000
2011
3 years
Supporting Open Access with Harvard Library
To improve acquisition policies and access to the library's collections.
$9,000,000
2011
5 years
Digitizing Israeli Ephemera
To collect, digitize and preserve printed ephemera from the early history of modern Israel and make them available for free online.
$1,991,702
2011
4 years
Core costs of the organisation
To give free access to educational resources.
$1,250,000
2011
5 years
Publication of Einstein's Papers
To preserve the archive of Einstein's scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and to make it available for free online.
$45,000
2010
2 years
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To support preparation for the digitization of palimpsest manuscripts in the Library of St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.
$12,000
2010
1 year
Patagonia National Park
To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing land adjacent to the Patagonia Park, which contains key access points and valuable habitat for threatened wildlife.
$500,000
2010
1 year
Living Landscape Scheme
To create large conservation areas connected by wildlife corridors to protect biodiversity, in collaboration with Kent Wildlife Trust.
$500,000
2010
5 years
Living Landscape Scheme
To create large conservation areas connected by wildlife corridors to protect biodiversity, in collaboration with Sussex Wildlife Trust.
$500,000
2010
5 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support organisational consolidation and develop a focus on biodiversity.
$2,550,000
2010
4 years
Changing US ocean management
To lobby the US Government on the need for marine spatial planning in national ocean policy.
$500,000
2010
4 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support organisational development.
$450,000
2010
4 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
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To develop an innovative light source to backlight the palimpsest folios of manuscripts with visible and infra-red light.
$35,000
2010
1 year
Dead Sea Scrolls online database
To develop resources related to the Dead Sea Scrolls including bibliography, transcriptions of the text, translations and commentaries from experts and make them available for free online.
$1,000,000
2010
4 years