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.
Endowment for the Center for Jewish History
To support the Center’s fundraising to enable its work in digitizating and preserving archives.
$3,500,000
2018
3 years
To support fundraising activities for the Center for Jewish History.
To provide core support for the salary of the Chief Development Officer and associated costs.
$2,000,000
2021
1 year
Towards core costs
To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.
$100,000
2025
1 year
Towards core costs
To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.
$100,000
2024
1 year
Towards core costs
To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.
$100,000
2023
1 year
Towards core costs
To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.
$100,000
2022
1 year
Anticaste archives: Preserving historical and cultural memory
To digitize Dalit community and family archives in India and make these materials freely available online.
$1,700,000
2022
5 years
Courtauld Endowment Fund
To ensure the long-term financial sustainability and academic independence of the Courtauld Institute.
$7,880,000
2002
5 years
Exhibition of Islamic art
To exhibit calligraphy, textiles, jewels, metalwork, ceramics and paintings from the 9th to 19th centuries.
$93,355
2004
2 years
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To digitize palimpsests in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai and make the results freely available online.
$2,100,000
2011
5 years
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To improve methods of backlighting palimpsest folios of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, in preparation for their digitization.
$85,000
2009
1 year
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To improve methods of backlighting palimpsest folios of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, in preparation for their digitization.
$35,000
2010
1 year
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To improve methods of backlighting palimpsest folios of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, in preparation for their digitization.
$12,000
2010
1 year
Publication of Einstein's Papers
To preserve the archive of Einstein’s scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and make it freely available online.
$45,000
2010
2 years
The Global Gramophone: Early commercial sound recordings around the world
To digitize the shellac discs in the so-called ‘Orient’ catalogue, and to make these audio files freely available online.
$2,541,000
2025
5 years
Internationalization of Arches data management platform software
To develop a new software module for the Arches data management platform.
$325,000
2021
1 year
College fellows fund
To support Harvard College Fellows Program.
$10,000,000
2012
4 years
Historic Ice Core
Harvard University (Department of History)
http://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/historical-ice-core-heart-europe
To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps and make the results freely available online.
$570,000
2019
3 years
Historical Ice Core Project
Harvard University (Department of History)
http://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/historical-ice-core-heart-europe
To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps and make the results freely available online.
$525,000
2013
4 years
Historical Ice Core Project
Harvard University (Department of History)
http://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/historical-ice-core-heart-europe
To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps and make the results freely available online.
$495,000
2016
3 years