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.
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To survey, digitize and develop an innovative light source to backlight palimpsest manuscripts in the library of St. Catherine's Monastery.
$85,000
2009
1 year
Operating and acquisition costs
To preserve, catalogue and digitise Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
$5,000,000
2009
4 years
UCLA Library digitization
To digitize vulnerable collections in UCLA's library and make them available for free online; to digitize ephemera through the open-access Collecting Los Angeles project.
$5,000,000
2009
5 years
Support to Yale University Library
To catalogue and digitize collections of primary materials, especially those in non-Roman alphabets without previous transcriptions, and to make them available for free online.
$5,000,000
2009
5 years
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
Survey of digital resources in African universities
To assess the need for, and improve engagement with, digital resources in African universities.
$105,798
2009
1 year
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Collaborative Conservation Research Fund
To support collaborative research among the initiative's partners to address high priority biodiversity conservation issues.
$1,319,458
2009
3 years
Conservation Evidence
To help conservation practitioners to make effective decisions by publishing and disseminating evidence-based conservation strategies.
$540,668
2009
6 years
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
To expand the partnership's work in biodiversity rich low- and middle-income countries.
$1,348,479
2009
5 years
Exploration and conservation of African rock art
To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.
$495,870
2009
3 years
Conservation of birds and their habitats
To build the capacity of national Birdlife partners in high-biodiversity countries, to ensure that priority species and habitats are sustainably managed.
$1,500,000
2009
5 years
Oral History of British Science
To develop an online, open access, oral history archive for the study of 20th-century science in Britain. In 2015, the project's 'Voices of Science' web resource won the Royal Historical Society's Public History Prize for Web and Digital (www.bl.uk/voicesofscience).
$793,371
2009
5 years
Changing US ocean management
To lobby the US Government on the need for marine spatial planning in national ocean policy.
$500,000
2009
2 years
Purchase of grassland in Argentina
To support the establishment of a new reserve in Corrientes province.
$321,000
2008
1 year
Core costs of the organisation
To give free access to educational resources.
$191,750
2008
1 year
Climate change action
To improve climate change policy and campaign against coal in the UK and Germany.
$5,000,000
2008
5 years
Chief scientific officer's post
To provide advice to the trust and its partners on scientific aspects of wild land conservation and biodiversity management.
$302,420
2008
3 years
Exploration and conservation of African rock art
To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.
$491,425
2008
2 years
Centre for Primary Research
To increase access to special library collections and train graduate students and scholars in collections management.
$500,000
2008
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
2008
3 years