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 July 2024). 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 running costs
Towards the theatre's running costs.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Towards the COVID19 Solidarity Response Fund
To support the global response to the COVID19 crisis.
$500,000
2020
1 year
Towards the Theory of the Foundation learning collaborative
To support the development of the field of knowledge about foundations as institutions.
$50,000
2020
2 years
Towards the second phase of the Illuminated River
The Illuminated River Foundation aims to create the longest public artwork in the world, lighting up to 15 bridges on the River Thames.
$4,840,000
2019
1 year
To establish the Medieval and European Faculty Support Fund
To establish a fund for the History Department for the salaries of new faculty hires to three established endowed chairs - the Henry J Bruman Endowed Chair in German HIstory, the Eugene Weber Chair in Modern European History and the Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval HIstory.
$5,000,000
2019
5 years
Towards core costs
To provide core costs for the European Council on Foreign Relations.
$256,838
2018
1 year
An oral history of farming, land management and conservation in post-war Britain
To record interviews with farmers, land owners, scientists and representatives from organizations about the experience of change in farming practices, landownership and land management in Britain after World War II.
$419,427
2018
4 years
Towards mobile outreach teams to support women and girls most in need
Allocated to the Blue Door Fund to support outreach services where they are most needed from March 2019 to December 2020
$7,000,000
2018
1 year
Core costs
Towards IntoUniversity's core costs
$256,838
2018
1 year
To establish an eye health fund in Asia and Africa
To support existing and new eye health programmes in Asia and Africa.
$1,000,000
2018
1 year
Towards the Pauline Yu Fellowship Fund in Chinese or Comparative Literature
To provide a lead gift for a fellowship scheme funding research in Chinese or Comparative Literature
$1,000,000
2018
1 year
To establish the Scott Waugh Fund for Medieval History, and endowment for the History Department.
To support graduate students, to bring distinguished visiting scholars to UCLA to give lectures and teach courses, to underwrite conferences and workshops, and for other purposes that the chair of the UCLA History Department determines to be beneficial to the vitality of the field of medieval history at UCLA.
$1,000,000
2018
1 year
Illuminated River Project
To support a scheme for lighting central London’s bridges along the River Thames.
$6,162,728
2017
3 years
Henry Koerner Hall
Towards a new building for student accommodations
$2,241,088
2017
1 year
The Hall of Graduate Studies
To refurbish the Hall of Graduate Studies and to support the programmatic agenda that will transform it into a central home for the humanities at Yale
$25,000,000
2015
3 years
President's discretionary fund for Harvard Library
To support new initiatives in the Harvard Library
$5,000,000
2011
5 years
Improving public policy through better understanding of history
To connect historians with policy-makers. History and Policy is a collaboration between King's College London and the University of Cambridge.
$152,000
2009
1 year
International Institute and Department of History
To support visiting professor Jürgen Kocka.
$75,000
2009
5 years
Promotion of UK philanthropy
To increase the effectiveness of philanthropy through a programme of education and awareness-raising.
$1,777,138
2009
5 years
Transforming library services
To set up the Arcadia Fellowship Programme. Fellows' projects look at how technology can improve access to information.
$981,300
2008
2 years