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.
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
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2014
1 year
Authors Alliance
To create a nonprofit organization (the Authors Alliance) to represent the interests of academics and other authors whose primary motivation is to disseminate knowledge.
$250,000
2013
1 year
Support for the University of California Berkeley Library
Core support for the University of California Berkeley Library.
$5,000,000
2014
2 years
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$103,500
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,053
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$99,750
2020
1 year
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$96,314
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$90,854
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$81,060
2014
1 year
Advancing open access to PhD theses
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$77,967
2015
1 year