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.
Mapping archaeological heritage in South Asia
To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results freely available online.
$2,304,000
2019
3 years
Documenting Mandaean rituals and religious traditions
To document the rituals and priestly knowledge of the Mandaeans and to make the records freely available online.
$348,556
2014
3 years
Bridget Phillips professorship
Support towards a new professorial position in memory of Bridget Phillips at the University of Florida.
$200,000
2023
1 year
Digitization of manuscripts in South-East Asia
To fund large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia and make these freely available online.
$2,173,500
2017
5 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 in Kerala, India in both institutional and family collections and to make the results freely available online.
$823,939
2022
5 years
Maldives Heritage Survey
To document the cultural heritage of the Maldives and make the data freely available online.
$620,000
2018
2 years
Documentation of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa
To document endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and make the data freely available online.
$2,774,064
2016
5 years
Documentation of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa.
To document endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and make the data freely available online.
$1,964,055
2014
3 years
Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa
To document endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and make the data freely available online.
$4,176,159
2019
5 years
Endowment of the Eleanor Rathbone Chair in Contemporary European History
To endow the Eleanor Rathbone Chair in Modern European History at St Anthony's College, Oxford.
$1,732,500
2024
2 years
Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa
To document endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and make the data freely available online.
$2,750,000
2024
3 years
Documentation of maritime archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa
To document endangered maritime archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa and to make the data freely available online.
$2,660,000
2018
5 years
Maritime Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa
To document endangered maritime archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa and to make the data freely available online.
$1,499,990
2024
3 years
Documentation of rock-cut churches in Ethiopia
To document the disappearing craft of cutting rock churches in Ethiopia and make the records freely available online.
$250,000
2015
3 years
Preserving Bhutan's cultural heritage
To document the oral traditions of Bhutan and make the records freely available online.
$1,422,590
2013
5 years
The Hyku Institutional Repository platform
To improve the Hyku Institutional Repository platform to drive the growth of ‘green’ open access to research publications through institutional repositories.
$1,000,000
2019
2 years
Acquisitions and collection care
To acquire, preserve, catalogue, and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks, and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
$750,000
2019
3 years
Institute for Archival Research
Towards construction costs for the Wende Museum’s international centre for digitization and conservation of at-risk post-war archives.
$3,300,000
2022
1 year
Operating and acquisition costs
To acquire, preserve, catalogue and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
$5,000,000
2014
5 years
Operating and acquisition costs
To acquire, preserve, catalogue and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
$5,000,000
2009
4 years