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.
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
To support a grant programme to document languages which are at risk of extinction, and build a digital archive to make the results freely available online.
Learn more$33,851,813
2002
15 years
Modern Endangered Archives Program
The Regents of the University of California, on behalf of its Los Angeles campus, for the UCLA Library
https://library.ucla.edu/partnerships/modern-endangered-archives-program
To support a grant programme to digitize endangered printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the 20th and 21st centuries and make the digitized materials freely available online.
Learn more$5,500,000
2018
6 years
Modern Endangered Archives Program
To support a grant programme to digitize endangered printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the 20th and 21st centuries, and make the digitized materials freely available online.
Learn more$13,000,000
2022
8 years
Digital library for the study of Africa
To build an online library of scholarly resources and make it freely available online to users from African institutions.
$2,500,000
2007
1 year
Towards the Centennial Campaign
To extend the reach of the Council’s fellowship programme.
$2,000,000
2017
4 years
To support the Bard core endowment
Towards the core endowment in recognition of the Bard Network’s work.
$5,000,000
2021
1 year
Refuseniks & Activists: The Soviet Jewish Emigration Project
To collate and digitize primary sources on the Soviet Jewish diaspora from disparate collections and make them freely available online.
$200,000
2023
2 years
Documenting cultural heritage in the Cook Islands and Niue - pilot study
For a pilot project to test remote sensing techniques and existing in-country data for documenting cultural heritage on the islands.
$87,079.20
2022
1 year
Endangered Archives Programme
To support a grant programme to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration, covering rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century, and to make the records freely available online.
$16,960,153
2004
13 years
Oral History of British Science
To develop an oral history archive of voices and memories for the study of 20th-century science in Britain and make it freely available online via the British Library.
$793,371
2009
5 years
Documentation of archaeological archives in Egypt
British Museum
http://britishmuseum.org/about_us/departments/egypt_and_sudan/egypt_documentation_project.aspx
To provide training for Egyptian heritage specialists to digitize and publish online glass plate photographs of early archaeological displays.
$336,304
2015
2 years
TARA image project
To preserve the Trust for African Rock Art’s (TARA) photographic archive and make it freely available online.
$1,345,590
2012
6 years
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
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
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