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.
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
$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.
Learn more$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
$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.
Learn more$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
Oxford Brookes University
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/projects/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.
Learn more$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