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.
Halcyon Marine Initiative
To create properly managed refuges for marine life whilst longer term systemic changes are made.
$5,000,000
2011
4 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
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
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
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
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
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
Whitley Awards
To support the careers of award winners.
$150,000
2011
1 year
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
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
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
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
President's discretionary fund for Harvard Library
To support new initiatives in the Harvard Library
$5,000,000
2011
5 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