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 August 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.
Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (ELTI)
To provide training for conservation practitioners in Asia and Central America.
$4,832,527
2006
6 years
Reading and Writing Gallery
To showcase the origins and development of reading and writing across cultures, from the fourth century BC to the printing press.
$1,747,700
2006
1 year
Miriam Rothschild Travel Bursary Programme and Scholarships Programme
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the University’s Student Conference on Conservation Science, and to provide scholarships to PhD students in the Department of Zoology.
$1,039,640
2006
5 years
Whitley Awards
To provide core support to the Whitley Fund for Nature.
$935,550
2006
1 year
Publication of Einstein's papers
To preserve the archive of Einstein’s scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and make it freely available online.
$235,940
2006
1 year
Endowment to Department of History
To support the establishment and ongoing work of the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History, the Joyce Oldham Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World, the Hans Rogger International Student Fund in History, the Millennium Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund and the Dean of Social Sciences Fund for Faculty Support in History in the College of Letters and Science.
$5,000,000
2005
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.
$991,500
2005
2 years
Computerised Access to the Records of the Linnean Society (CARLS)
To digitize the Society’s collections and make them freely available online.
$889,200
2005
1 year
History of Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism (Toledot Torat Hasod Ha'ivrit)
To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan’s multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.
$150,000
2005
3 years
Endangered Archives Programme
To support a grant programme to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration, covering rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century, and to make the records freely available online.
$16,960,153
2004
13 years
Harvard Library: global fund for open collections
To digitize key collections and make them freely available online.
$5,000,000
2004
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.
$1,867,100
2004
1 year
Exhibition of Islamic art
To exhibit calligraphy, textiles, jewels, metalwork, ceramics and paintings from the 9th to 19th centuries.
$93,355
2004
2 years
Halcyon Land & Sea
To work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.
$5,000,000
2003
1 year
Courtauld Endowment Fund
To ensure the long-term financial sustainability and academic independence of the Courtauld Institute.
$7,880,000
2002
5 years