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.
Whitley Awards
To support the careers of Whitley Award winners.
$150,000
2011
1 year
Impact assessment of digitised collections
To research methods of assessing the impact of digitized 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
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
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
Core costs of the organisation
To support organizational consolidation and develop a focus on protecting and supporting biodiversity.
$2,550,000
2010
4 years
Dead Sea Scrolls online database
To develop resources related to the Dead Sea Scrolls and make them freely available online.
$1,000,000
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
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
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
Patagonia National Park
To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing ecologically important land next to Patagonia Park in Chile.
$500,000
2010
1 year
Changing US ocean management
To support work to improve marine spatial planning (co-ordinated protection of the oceans) in US Government ocean policy.
$500,000
2010
4 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support the Institute’s work to secure lasting protections for marine habitats.
$450,000
2010
4 years
Publication of Einstein's Papers
To preserve the archive of Einstein’s scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and make it freely available online.
$45,000
2010
2 years
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To improve methods of backlighting palimpsest folios of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, in preparation for their digitization.
$35,000
2010
1 year
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To improve methods of backlighting palimpsest folios of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, in preparation for their digitization.
$12,000
2010
1 year
Harvard Library: collection and preservation services
To catalogue and digitize documents on Harvard’s history, and to run the Library Lab programme to create better digital services for students and faculty.
$5,000,000
2009
6 years
UCLA Library digitization
To digitize vulnerable collections in UCLA’s library and ephemera identified through the Collecting Los Angeles project, and make these collections freely available online.
$5,000,000
2009
5 years
Operating and acquisition costs
To acquire, preserve, catalogue and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
$5,000,000
2009
4 years
Support to Yale University Library
To catalogue and digitize collections of primary materials, especially those in non-Roman alphabets without previous transcriptions, and make them freely available online.
$5,000,000
2009
5 years