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 February 2026). 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.
Conservation Evidence
To publish and make widely available evidence-based conservation strategies to help conservation practitioners make effective decisions.
$177,672
2020
1 year
Towards running costs
Towards the theatre’s running costs.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$99,750
2020
1 year
History of Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism
To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan’s multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.
$70,000
2020
2 years
Towards the Theory of the Foundation learning collaborative
To support the development of the field of knowledge about foundations as institutions.
$50,000
2020
2 years
European Open Rivers Programme
To support a grant programme to remove redundant dams, weirs and other river barriers across Europe, so that rivers can flow naturally and biodiversity can flourish.
Learn more$50,575,000
2021
6 years
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
To support a grant programme to document languages which are at risk of extinction, and build a digital archive to make the results freely available online.
Learn more$24,990,000
2021
10 years
Earth Investigations Programme
JournalismFund Europe
https://www.journalismfund.eu/news/eu115-million-environmental-investigative-journalism
To support a grant programme for environmental investigative journalism on European affairs inside and outside Europe.
Learn more$13,685,000
2021
6 years
Oceans 5 General Fund
To support a collaborative grant programme to help stop overfishing, establish marine protected areas, and constrain offshore oil and gas development, to provide lasting benefits to coastal communities and the world’s oceans.
Learn more$6,000,000
2021
3 years
Digitization of manuscripts in Africa and Asia
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and make them freely available online.
$5,492,813
2021
5 years
To support the Bard core endowment
Towards the core endowment in recognition of the Bard Network’s work.
$5,000,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access at galleries, libraries, archives, and museums
To help more of the world’s public art galleries, libraries, archives and museums make their collections data and images freely available under Creative Commons licences or waivers.
$5,000,000
2021
5 years
Protected Planet
Towards the core costs of the Protected Planet platform
$5,000,000
2021
5 years
Tools to steer academic systems to open research
To provide tools and data which make open-access research easier to find and use and to help libraries and researchers make better decisions.
$4,500,000
2021
3 years
Invest in open infrastructure
To improve funding and resourcing for open technology and systems which underpin access to scholarly research.
$3,470,000
2021
3 years