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.

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Publication of Einstein's papers

To preserve the archive of Einstein's scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and to make it available for free online.

$235,940

2006

1 year

Miriam Rothschild Travel Bursary Programme and Scholarships Programme

To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Student Conference on Conservation Science, and to provide scholarships to PhD students in the Department of Zoology.

$1,039,640

2006

5 years

Finding homes for Romanian children in institutional care

$65,037

2006

1 year

Research, advocacy, and outreach to promote women's rights

To prevent discrimination, uphold political freedom, protect women from inhumane conduct in wartime and bring offenders to justice.

$5,000,000

2006

6 years

Halcyon Land & Sea fund

To secure important areas of natural habitat and ensure their associated wildlife will survive.

$5,000,000

2006

6 years

Whitley Awards

To support the careers of award winners.

$935,550

2006

1 year

HIV/AIDS programme

To treat mothers and carers with HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

$464,550

2006

1 year

Expanding the network

To develop the network in Spain, Norway and Turkey, and secure positions for scholars from Iran, Iraq and Bhutan.

$464,550

2006

1 year

Imperial College mathematics summer school

$139,365

2006

1 year

Club of Three: Caucasus Conference 2006

To explore Europe's relations and responsibilities in the Caucasus and Central Asia, political and economic reform processes, and the impact of EU and Russian policies.

$94,110

2006

1 year

Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (ELTI)

To train conservation practitioners in tropical Asia and Central America to enable them to take responsibility for local and national conservation, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.

$4,832,527

2006

6 years

Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation

To challenge present and future leaders to solve problems of global concern, through training, network-building and targeted projects.

$89,150

2006

1 year

Scholars at Risk

To give fellowships to scholars facing persecution in their home countries.

$1,000,000

2005

7 years

Secondary school bursaries

To provide bursaries to young women in Uganda.

$5,000,000

2005

7 years

Research, advocacy, and outreach to promote women's rights

To prevent discrimination, uphold political freedom, protect women from inhumane conduct in wartime and bring offenders to justice.

$1,000,000

2005

1 year

Endowment to Department of History

To establish: 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 Cllege of Letters and Science.

$5,000,000

2005

5 years

Scholars at Risk

To start the programme in Israel, providing short-term positions for academics at risk because of their work, prominence or exercising their basic rights.

$57,285

2005

1 year

Operating and acquisition costs

To preserve, catalogue and digitise 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 digitise the society's collections and make them available for free online.

$889,200

2005

1 year

Books for schools programme

To give one copy of each title in the Everyman collection to every state secondary school in the UK.

$284,544

2005

1 year