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.
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
To employ and train social workers.
$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
To improve state school students' mathematics.
$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