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 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.
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.
Learn more$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
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