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.

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Grant recipient

Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes

To document heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites from aerial and satellite imagery, and make the results freely available online.

$4,194,000

2023

5 years

Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes

To document heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites from aerial and satellite imagery, and make the results freely available online.

$3,843,700

2018

5 years

Documentation of endangered historic buildings with frescoes in Shanxi Province, China

To survey and document endangered buildings with frescoes in Shanxi Province from 500-1900 CE, and to create a bilingual database of the records that is freely available online.

$1,047,438

2018

6 years

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2014

1 year

Centre for Primary Research

To support the Library’s Center for Primary Research and Training’s work to improve access to special library collections and train graduate students and scholars in collections management.

$500,000

2008

5 years

Digitization of Syriac and Arabic manuscripts in Saint Catherine Monastery, Sinai

To digitize the Arabic and Syriac manuscript codices in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, and make the results freely available online.

$980,051

2018

3 years

Endowment to Department of History

To support the Millennium Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund and establish the Endowed History Department Chair and the History Department Chair Quasi-Endowment Fund.

$10,000,000

2012

5 years

Endowment to Department of History

To support the establishment and ongoing work of the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History, the Joyce Oldham Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World, the Hans Rogger International Student Fund in History, the Millennium Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund and the Dean of Social Sciences Fund for Faculty Support in History in the College of Letters and Science.

$5,000,000

2005

5 years

International Institute and Department of History

To support a visiting professorship in the International Institute and Department of History.

$75,000

2009

5 years

Sinai Library Digitization Project

To digitize more of the remaining manuscripts of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, including newly discovered palimpsests, and make the results freely available online.

$2,014,000

2022

3 years

Sinai Palimpsest Project open access online publication

To make multispectral images of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, freely available online.

$200,000

2014

2 years

The Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History

To endow the Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History at UCLA.

$5,000,000

2014

1 year

To establish the Medieval and European Faculty Support Fund

To establish a fund to support the filling of three established endowed chairs: the Henry J Bruman Endowed Chair in German History, the Eugene Weber Chair in Modern European History and the Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History.

$5,000,000

2019

5 years

To establish the Scott Waugh Fund for Medieval History, and endowment for the History Department.

To establish the Scott Waugh Fund for Medieval History to support work that the chair of the UCLA History Department determines to be beneficial to the field of medieval history at UCLA.

$1,000,000

2018

1 year

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

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2021

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

2019

1 year

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2019

1 year

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2017

1 year