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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Culture

Grant recipient

Desert of the Mamluks documentation project

Towards the documentation of endangered built heritage and oral traditions in the ‘Desert of the Mamluks’, part of Cairo’s ‘City of the Dead’ necropolis.

$79,730

2021

1 year

To support the Bard core endowment

Towards the core endowment in recognition of the Bard Network's work.

$5,000,000

2021

1 year

Internationalization of Arches data management platform software

To develop a new software module for the Arches data management platform

$325,000

2021

1 year

Endangered Languages Documentation Programme

The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme gives grants to linguists and community members to document languages around the world that are at risk of falling silent. The programme makes the digital documentation of these languages freely available online.

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$24,990,000

2021

10 years

Digitization of manuscripts in Africa and Asia

To continue the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library’s work digitizing endangered manuscripts in Africa and Asia, and to make them available online in an open-access repository.

$5,492,813

2021

5 years

Inventory of Maritime Archaeology in Pakistan

To develop a publicly accessible inventory of maritime archaeological resources in Pakistan to enable future scientific research and effective heritage management.

$495,354

2021

2 years

To support fundraising activities for the Center for Jewish History.

To support the salary of the Chief Development Officer and associated costs

$2,000,000

2021

1 year

History of Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism

To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan's multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.

$70,000

2020

2 years

Mongolia Heritage Sites Survey

To create a publicly accessible database of endangered archaeological heritage in Mongolia using satellite imagery and on-the-ground survey.

$2,423,967

2020

5 years

Towards the costs of running the museum.

Towards the costs of running the Wende Museum.

$100,000

2020

1 year

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

The Endangered Material Knowledge Programme gives grants to document traditional skills and practices used in making or using things. It supports projects that document practices and skills that are being lost as mass-produced objects replace handmade items. The digitized records are available for free online.

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$11,075,680

2020

8 years

Maritime Asia Heritage Survey

To document endangered heritage sites, inland and coastal, in the region from the Cham coast of Vietnam, through Indonesia, Brunei, and Sri Lanka to the Maldives.

$6,253,809

2020

5 years

Nepal Heritage Documentation Project

To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley, and publish them online in a searchable, free database.

$3,006,209

2020

6 years

Palestinian Museum Digital Archive

To digitize endangered, dispersed and inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, videos and ephemeral materials representing the culture and history of Palestine from 1800 to the present and to make them available in an open-access online archive.

$1,900,000

2020

3 years

Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme

The Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme gives grants to document traditional practices of creating and maintaining wooden buildings. The programme makes permanent records of these structures and practices and makes them freely available online.

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$6,057,000

2020

5 years

Historic Ice Core

To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps.

$570,000

2019

3 years

Acquisitions and collection care

Towards the Wende Museum's acquisition of Eastern Bloc artefacts and care for its existing collection.

$750,000

2019

3 years

Mapping archaeological heritage in South Asia

To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results available online through an open-access database.

$2,304,000

2019

3 years

Mapping Africa's endangered sites and monuments

To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results available online through an open-access database.

$4,249,600

2019

3 years

Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa

To document archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery.

$4,176,159

2019

5 years