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.
Documenting Ukraine fellowships
To support journalists, scholars, artists, public intellectuals and archivists based in Ukraine.
$540,000
2022
1 year
Director's discretionary fund
To support open access initiatives within or outside MIT, as identified by the MIT Press Director.
$500,000
2022
3 years
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$500,000
2022
3 years
California Language Archive
To provide core support to the California Language Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.
$500,000
2022
5 years
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$500,000
2022
3 years
Documenting the contemporary history of science in India
To collect and digitize at-risk material related to the history of science in South Asia since the early 19th century, and to make the results freely available online, along with a prototype tool for interpretation and access, and public annotation of archival material.
$440,000
2022
3 years
Offline Internet Consortium
To provide access to online materials to communities with no internet access.
$300,000
2022
3 years
To support people and National Parks impacted by the war in Ukraine.
To support a collaboration between Frankfurt Zoological Society and Foundation Conservation Carpathia to provide equipment and supplies for people in Ukraine’s national parks.
$297,500
2022
1 year
To support people and National Parks impacted by the war in Ukraine.
Frankfurt Zoological Society
https://fzs.org/en/support/emergency-support-for-protected-areas-in-the-carpathians/
To support a collaboration between Frankfurt Zoological Society and Foundation Conservation Carpathia to provide equipment and supplies for people in Ukraine’s national parks.
$297,500
2022
1 year
Towards Akhuwat's flood relief work in Pakistan
To provide interest-free micro-loans to rebuild homes and support businesses and agriculture in areas impacted by the floods in Pakistan.
$250,000
2022
1 year
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$250,000
2022
1 year
Advancing Open Access
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2022
1 year
Digitizing the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection
To digitize items from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of rare books and manuscripts on the history of forgery, and make them freely available online.
$222,825
2022
1 year
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2022
1 year
Towards core costs
To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.
$100,000
2022
1 year
MIT OpenCourseWare
To support an initiative to make educational materials from MIT’s undergraduate- and graduate-level courses freely available online.
$100,000
2022
1 year
Rewilding Argentina Ibera Wildfire Crisis Fund
To provide a donation to Rewilding Argentina’s Iberá Wildlife Crisis Fund, paid through its fiscal sponsor re:wild.
$100,000
2022
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum
$100,000
2022
1 year
Documenting cultural heritage in the Cook Islands and Niue - pilot study
For a pilot project to test remote sensing techniques and existing in-country data for documenting cultural heritage on the islands.
$87,079.20
2022
1 year
Yaeda Valley project
Towards protecting the forested ancestral homeland of the Hadza hunter-gatherers in the Yaeda Valley.
$71,280
2022
1 year