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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Nature

Grant recipient

Support for Blue Ventures’ core operations.

Core support for Blue Ventures’ to help it achieve its mission to rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities.

$2,500,000

2022

5 years

Core support to Global Canopy

To provide Global Canopy with core support to target the market forces destroying nature.

$1,725,000

2022

4 years

Ocean campaign

To support a campaign to end illegal fishing and protect marine biodiversity.

$1,500,000

2022

5 years

Rewilding Argentina Ibera Wildfire Crisis Fund

To provide a donation to Rewilding Argentina’s Iberá Wildlife Crisis Fund, paid through its fiscal sponsor re:wild.

$100,000

2022

1 year

European Open Rivers Programme

To support a grant programme to remove redundant dams, weirs and other river barriers across Europe, so that rivers can flow naturally and biodiversity can flourish.

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$50,575,000

2021

6 years

Earth Investigations Programme

To support a grant programme for environmental investigative journalism on European affairs inside and outside Europe.

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$13,685,000

2021

6 years

Oceans 5 General Fund

To support a collaborative grant programme to help stop overfishing, establish marine protected areas, and constrain offshore oil and gas development, to provide lasting benefits to coastal communities and the world’s oceans.

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$6,000,000

2021

3 years

Protected Planet

Towards the core costs of the Protected Planet platform

$5,000,000

2021

5 years

Towards work on soil carbon sequestration.

To assess the scientific foundation for agricultural soil carbon credits.

$2,500,000

2021

4 years

FFI Conservation Resilience Fund

To help local conservation organizations adopt new operational models to adapt to a post-COVID-19 future.

$2,000,000

2021

3 years

WCS Local Conservation Partners Fund

To help local conservation organizations adopt new operational and business models to adapt to a post-COVID-19 future.

$2,000,000

2021

3 years

Support for the Environmental Governance Programme

To support the Forest Peoples Programme’s environmental governance programme to protect terrestrial biodiversity.

$1,380,000

2021

5 years

To support the Wildlife Justice Commission’s (WJC’s) core operations.

To support WJC’s mission to support the investigation and prosecution of high-level wildlife crime cases.

$1,190,000

2021

5 years

Empowering legal actors working to protect global biodiversity

To help lawyers in under-resourced regions win legal victories that protect biodiversity and build local capacity to protect biodiversity in years to come.

$1,000,000

2021

5 years

The Age of Extinction series

To support the Age of Extinction series, a reporting project that aims to draw attention to the global biodiversity crisis.

$900,000

2021

3 years

Conservation Evidence

To publish and make widely available evidence-based conservation strategies to help conservation practitioners make effective decisions.

$138,000

2021

1 year

Pesticide Free Towns

To support a campaign to end pesticide use by councils and other land managers in towns in the UK.

$110,400

2021

1 year

Endangered Landscapes Programme

To support a grant programme to support large-scale projects to restore biodiversity-rich habitats across Europe at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

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$35,059,365

2020

10 years

Intelligence and action against wildlife trade (ReTTA Phase II)

To strengthen actions to reduce the illegal and unsustainable trade of African wild species to Asia through data gathering, information sharing, engagement and innovative interventions.

$3,000,000

2020

5 years

Forest campaign

To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate-critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses. This is vital for combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.

$1,995,000

2020

3 years