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 February 2026). 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.
Conservation Evidence
To publish and make widely available evidence-based conservation strategies to help conservation practitioners make effective decisions.
$138,000
2021
1 year
Pesticide Free Towns
To support a campaign to end pesticide use by councils and other land managers in towns in the UK.
$110,400
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$103,500
2021
1 year
Borderland Foundation core costs
To help Borderland (Fundacja Pogranicze) deliver its mission to support cross-border cultural and community exchanges.
$100,000
2021
4 years
Towards running costs
Towards the theatre’s running costs.
$100,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2021
1 year
The next generation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare
To support an initiative to make educational materials from MIT’s undergraduate- and graduate-level courses freely available online.
$100,000
2021
1 year
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
2021
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum
$100,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2021
1 year
Desert of the Mamluks documentation project
To document endangered built heritage and oral traditions in the ‘Desert of the Mamluks’ in Cairo’s ‘City of the Dead’ necropolis, and make the resulting materials freely available online.
$79,730
2021
1 year
Meeting room upgrade project
To provide AV equipment to support hybrid meetings at the Center for Jewish History.
$73,500
2021
1 year
Towards making materials on Danish Jewish in World War II available to wider audiences
Network for the Study of Nazism and the Holocaust
https://www.sdu.dk/da/om_sdu/institutter_centre/ih/forskning/forskningsnetvaerk/nnhs
To translate a website and exhibits on Danish Jewish deportees to Theresienstadt in 1943-4 into Czech, English, German and Swedish, and make the results freely available online.
$26,100
2021
1 year
Modern Endangered Archives Program
To support a grant programme to digitize endangered printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the 20th and 21st centuries, and make the digitized materials freely available online.
Learn more$13,000,000
2022
8 years
Arcadia Open Access Fund
Towards a matched endowment to support open-access programmes at MIT Press, including open monographs, open journals and open publishing services.
$10,000,000
2022
6 years
Core support to re:wild
To provide core support to re:wild to help it expand its work as a regranting partner and fiscal sponsor for nature conservation organizations worldwide.
$6,000,000
2022
5 years
To support NYPL's digital work
To make in-copyright books more widely available online via NYPL’s Digital Research Books platform.
$5,000,000
2022
1 year
WCS - Legacy Landscapes Fund
To provide match funding for a long-term endowment from the Legacy Landscape Fund for the conservation of the Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra, Indonesia.
$5,000,000
2022
5 years
Advancing rewilding across Europe
To promote nature restoration across Europe through the development of innovative models, including a grant programme to accelerate wildlife comeback in Europe.
$4,999,995
2022
5 years