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.
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
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
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.
$275,000
2008
3 years
Running costs
$100,000
2019
1 year
Soviet Jewry project
Towards preserving, documenting, and providing access to historical materials relating to Soviet Jewry, the Refusenik movement and the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora.
$1,500,000
2021
3 years
Towards the costs of running the museum
$100,000
2024
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum
$100,000
2023
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum
$100,000
2022
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum
$100,000
2021
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Wende archival digitization
To digitize approximately 50,000 pages of the most important archival material held by the Wende and make it freely available online.
$450,000
2019
3 years
Wende endowment
Towards a permanent endowment for the Wende Museum for collections care and acquisitions and general operations.
$12,500,000
2024
1 year
Wende endowment
Towards a permanent endowment for the Wende Museum with proceeds specifically for collections care and acquisitions.
$7,500,000
2019
10 years
Conservation of East Asian-Australasian Flyway
Wetlands International
https://wetlands.org/news/arcadia-fund-helps-us-support-restoration-management-critical-habitats
To conserve and restore degraded habitats in the Yellow Sea region in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.
$1,740,000
2018
5 years
Whitley Awards
To provide core support to the Whitley Fund for Nature.
$935,550
2006
1 year
Whitley Awards
To support the careers of Whitley Award winners.
$150,000
2011
1 year
Growing the Wikidata and Wikibase contributor base
To support technical improvements around lexicographical data and the globalization of the contributor base for Wikibase.
$979,132
2019
3 years
Towards the Wikimedia endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$2,000,000
2022
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$250,000
2024
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$250,000
2023
1 year