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.
Towards core costs
$100,000
2023
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia endowment
$250,000
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
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
Refuseniks & Activists: The Soviet Jewish Emigration Project
Towards digitizing primary sources on the Soviet Jewish diaspora from disparate collections, and making them freely accessible online.
$200,000
2023
2 years
Trinity College Medieval Manuscripts
Towards the digitization of fourteen significant Medieval manuscripts in the collection of Trinity College Dublin
$200,000
2023
2 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
Halcyon Land & Sea and core support
$18,000,000
2023
3.5 years
Core support
Core support for the European Review of Books
$22,000
2023
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum
$100,000
2023
1 year
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Masters in Conservation Leadership
Masters in Conservation Leadership - University of Cambridge
https://www.cambridgeconservation.org/our-work/mphil-in-conservation-leadership/
To support Miriam Rothschild scholars to participate in the Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership.
$3,000,000
2022
10 years
Rewilding Argentina Ibera Wildfire Crisis Fund
To provide a donation to Rewilding Argentina's Ibera Wildlife Crisis Fund, paid through their fiscal sponsor re:wild
$100,000
2022
1 year
Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI)
To train conservation practitioners in tropical Asia and Central America to enable them to take responsibility for local and national conservation
$3,000,000
2022
5 years
Documenting Ukraine fellowships
To support journalists, scholars, artists, public intellectuals and archivists based in Ukraine.
$1,273,300
2022
2 years
Mapping Pre-Columbian archaeological heritage in South America
To produce an integrated public access database for the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia.
$2,270,637
2022
3 years
Safeguarding the ocean for future generations: Advancing equity, science and capacity
To support the operations of the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI), so that it can continue to provide evidence-based advice to inform international policy concerning the management and conservation of the deep ocean.
$4,641,000
2022
10 years
Anticaste archives: Preserving historical and cultural memory
To digitize Dalit community and family archives in India, and to make these materials available in an open-access digital archive
$1,700,000
2022
5 years
Sinai Library Digitization Project
To digitize and publish online more of the remaining manuscripts of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai beyond the Arabic and Syriac manuscripts digitized in phase I, as well as newly discovered palimpsests
$2,014,000
2022
3 years
Documenting the contemporary history of science in India
To collect, preserve and make available online endangered cultural artefacts related to the contemporary (~200 years) history of science in South Asia. It will also develop a prototype tool for interpretation and access through linked open data and public annotation of archival material
$440,000
2022
3 years
DiPiKA - Digitization and Preservation of Kerala Archives
To survey and digitize some of the most important collections of palm-leaf manuscripts in the Thrissur and Ernakulam districts, Kerala, India in both institutional and family collections. These will be made available online in an open-access repository
$823,939
2022
5 years