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.
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.
$275,000
2008
3 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: executive director's post
To develop and consolidate the initiative.
$1,644,913
2008
6 years
Pumalin Park, Chile
To build a rangers' station.
$379,000
2008
2 years
Patagonia National Park
To build a visitors' centre.
$1,300,000
2008
3 years
Exploration and conservation of African rock art
To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.
$244,988
2007
1 year
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.
$500,000
2007
5 years
Digital library for the study of Africa
To build an online library of scholarly resources and make it available for free online to users from African institutions
$2,500,000
2007
1 year
Universal Library Project
To research the feasibility of developing a universal digital library.
$50,000
2007
1 year
Core costs of the organisation
To support organisational consolidation and develop a focus on biodiversity.
$5,250,000
2007
1 year
Core costs of the organisation
To support organisational development.
$1,500,000
2007
1 year
Influencing public policy on climate change
To create the conditions for significant global climate change agreements in 2009-10.
$176,593
2007
1 year
Reading and Writing Gallery
To showcase the origins and development of reading and writing across cultures, from the fourth century BC to the printing press.
$1,747,700
2006
1 year
Miriam Rothschild Professorship of Conservation Biology
To endow a Professorship of Conservation Biology.
$6,635,560
2006
5 years
Publication of Einstein's papers
To preserve the archive of Einstein's scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and to make it available for free online.
$235,940
2006
1 year
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.
$4,832,527
2006
6 years
Whitley Awards
To support the careers of award winners.
$935,550
2006
1 year
Halcyon Land & Sea fund
To secure important areas of natural habitat and ensure their associated wildlife will survive.
$5,000,000
2006
6 years
Miriam Rothschild Travel Bursary Programme and Scholarships Programme
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Student Conference on Conservation Science, and to provide scholarships to PhD students in the Department of Zoology.
$1,039,640
2006
5 years
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.
$991,500
2005
2 years
Endowment to Department of History
To establish: 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 Cllege of Letters and Science.
$5,000,000
2005
5 years