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.

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Culture

Grant recipient

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

Towards the costs of running the museum

Towards the costs of running the museum.

$100,000

2022

1 year

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 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.

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$24,990,000

2021

10 years

Digitization of manuscripts in Africa and Asia

To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and make them freely available online.

$5,492,813

2021

5 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

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

Soviet Jewry project

Towards preserving, documenting, and providing access to historical materials relating to Soviet Jewry, the Refusenik movement and the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora.

$1,500,000

2021

3 years

Inventory of Maritime Archaeology in Pakistan

Pilot project to create an inventory of maritime archaeological resources in Pakistan and make the results freely available online.

$495,354

2021

2 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

Towards the costs of running the museum

Towards the costs of running the museum.

$100,000

2021

1 year

Desert of the Mamluks documentation project

To document endangered built heritage and oral traditions in the ‘Desert of the Mamluks’ in Cairo’s ‘City of the Dead’ necropolis, and make the resulting materials freely available online.

$79,730

2021

1 year

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

To support a grant programme for documenting endangered material culture (how things are made and how they are used), and to make materials freely available online.

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$11,075,680

2020

8 years

Maritime Asia Heritage Survey

To document endangered heritage sites from Maritime Southern Asia: Thailand, Indonesia and the Maldives, and make the results freely available online.

$6,253,809

2020

5 years

Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme

To support a grant programme to document traditional practices of creating and maintaining wooden buildings and make the results freely available online.

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$6,057,000

2020

5 years

Nepal Heritage Documentation Project

To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley and make the resulting materials freely available online.

$3,006,209

2020

6 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

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 freely available online.

$1,900,000

2020

3 years