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 August 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.

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Culture

Grant recipient

Preserving the Full Legacy of Yiddish Poet A. N. Stencl

To collect and digitize endangered archival material related to the Yiddish poet Abraham Nahum Stencl (1897-1983) and make the results freely available online.

$314,763

2024

2 years

Sudan Memory project review

To review and further develop best practice models for cultural heritage digitization, using the Sudan Memory project as the starting point.

$125,470.80

2024

1 year

Towards core costs

To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.

$100,000

2024

1 year

Towards the costs of running the museum

Towards the costs of running the museum.

$100,000

2024

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.

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$18,000,000

2023

10 years

Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes

To document heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites from aerial and satellite imagery, and make the results freely available online.

$4,194,000

2023

5 years

The Einstein Papers Project

To preserve the archive of Einstein’s scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and make it freely available online.

$300,000

2023

3 years

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

Trinity College Medieval Manuscripts

To digitize fourteen medieval manuscripts in the collection of Trinity College Dublin and make the results freely available online.

$200,000

2023

2 years

Towards core costs

To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.

$100,000

2023

1 year

Towards the costs of running the museum

Towards the costs of running the museum.

$100,000

2023

1 year

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.

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$13,000,000

2022

8 years

Institute for Archival Research

Towards construction costs for the Wende Museum’s international centre for digitization and conservation of at-risk post-war archives.

$3,300,000

2022

1 year

Mapping Pre-Columbian archaeological heritage in South America

To document the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia, and make the results freely available online.

$2,270,637

2022

3 years

Sinai Library Digitization Project

To digitize more of the remaining manuscripts of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, including newly discovered palimpsests, and make the results freely available online.

$2,014,000

2022

3 years

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

DiPiKA - Digitization and Preservation of Kerala Archives

To survey and digitize some of the most important collections of palm-leaf manuscripts in the Thrissur and Ernakulam districts in Kerala, India in both institutional and family collections and to make the results freely available online.

$823,939

2022

5 years

California Language Archive

To provide core support to the California Language Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.

$500,000

2022

5 years

Documenting the contemporary history of science in India

To collect and digitize at-risk material related to the history of science in South Asia since the early 19th century, and to make the results freely available online, along with a prototype tool for interpretation and access, and public annotation of archival material.

$440,000

2022

3 years

Towards core costs

To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.

$100,000

2022

1 year