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 support preparation for the digitization of palimpsest manuscripts in the Library of St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.
$12,000
2010
1 year
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To develop an innovative light source to backlight the palimpsest folios of manuscripts with visible and infra-red light.
$35,000
2010
1 year
Baltic Sea Campaign
To enforce existing laws and regulations, to reduce illegal fishing and identify areas in need of protection.
$1,000,000
2010
2 years
Dead Sea Scrolls online database
To develop resources related to the Dead Sea Scrolls including bibliography, transcriptions of the text, translations and commentaries from experts and make them available for free online.
$1,000,000
2010
4 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support organisational development.
$450,000
2010
4 years
Changing US ocean management
To lobby the US Government on the need for marine spatial planning in national ocean policy.
$500,000
2010
4 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support organisational consolidation and develop a focus on biodiversity.
$2,550,000
2010
4 years
Living Landscape Scheme
To create large conservation areas connected by wildlife corridors to protect biodiversity, in collaboration with Sussex Wildlife Trust.
$500,000
2010
5 years
Living Landscape Scheme
To create large conservation areas connected by wildlife corridors to protect biodiversity, in collaboration with Kent Wildlife Trust.
$500,000
2010
5 years
Patagonia National Park
To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing land adjacent to the Patagonia Park, which contains key access points and valuable habitat for threatened wildlife.
$500,000
2010
1 year
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.
$45,000
2010
2 years
Promotion of UK philanthropy
To increase the effectiveness of philanthropy through a programme of education and awareness-raising.
$1,777,138
2009
5 years
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
International Institute and Department of History
To support visiting professor Jürgen Kocka.
$75,000
2009
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.
$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