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.
Core support
Core support for the European Review of Books
$22,000
2023
1 year
Halcyon Land & Sea and core support
$18,000,000
2023
3.5 years
Biodiversity and habitat governance
To support ClientEarth to use legal systems to develop and enforce biodiversity and habitat governance. ClientEarth will support the implementation of global policies and commitments to ensure terrestrial, freshwater and marine ecosystems are appropriately safeguarded, managed and restored.
$6,250,000
2023
5 years
EU Nature Restoration Law
To provide support to environmental organisations, citizen groups and grassroots movements in a set of key EU Member States to strengthen the EU’s negotiation of the Nature Restoration Law.
$1,100,000
2023
1 year
To support a new staff editor
Towards the costs of a new staff editor for Places Journal - a free scholarly publication dedicated to architecture, landscape and urbanism, and promoting equitable cities and resilient landscapes.
$500,000
2023
5 years
Towards the Wikimedia endowment
$250,000
2023
1 year
Towards core costs
$100,000
2023
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum
$100,000
2023
1 year
Advancing open access
$200,000
2023
1 year
Legacy Landscapes Fund match grants
Match funding to create endowments for Chiribiquete (Colombia), Makira-Masoala (Madagascar) and Tambrauw (Indonesia).
$25,000,000
2023
1 year
WCS - Legacy Landscapes Fund
To provide Legacy Landscapes Fund with match funding for Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Leuser Ecosystem bid in Sumatra, Indonesia.
$5,000,000
2022
5 years
Support for Blue Ventures’ core operations.
Support for Blue Ventures’ core operations.
$2,500,000
2022
5 years
Ocean campaign
To support the Environmental Justice Foundation's ocean campaign to end illegal fishing and protect marine biodiversity
$1,500,000
2022
5 years
Liberating taxonomic treatments
To continue to build a public access repository of species descriptions and images ‘liberated’ from in-copyright journal articles, and to automate this process of liberation in future by integrating it into publishers’ systems.
$1,785,000
2022
3 years
COMMUNIA International Association for the Public Domain
To develop policies and legal strategies to expand and strengthen the public domain, ensuring that everyone can always freely reuse public domain content. The project will also aim to develop user rights (of both individual and institutional users) to access and share content with legal clarity for the beneficiaries of exceptions and limitations.
$3,570,000
2022
8 years
Project Notify
To help scholarly communities organise peer-review of preprints and working papers through a not-for-profit, university-governed ecosystem, bypassing commercial publishers.
$4,000,000
2022
4 years
Redalyc + AmeliCA
To provide core support to Redalyc&AmeliCA to improve discoverability and open access to journals without author-fees (‘diamond OA’).
$3,600,000
2022
10 years
Core support to Global Canopy
To provide Global Canopy with core support to target the market forces destroying nature.
$1,725,000
2022
4 years
Modern Endangered Archives Program
The Modern Endangered Archives Program gives grants to digitize endangered archival materials from the 20th and 21st centuries. The programme supports projects that digitize printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the mid-20th century onwards. All of the digitized materials are freely available online.
Learn more$13,000,000
2022
8 years
Advancing rewilding across Europe
To continue advancing and scaling up rewilding across Europe through the development of innovative rewilding models, starting a new initiative to accelerate wildlife comeback in Europe.
$4,999,995
2022
5 years