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.
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.
Learn more$50,575,000
2021
6 years
Earth Investigations Programme
JournalismFund Europe
https://www.journalismfund.eu/news/eu115-million-environmental-investigative-journalism
To support a grant programme for environmental investigative journalism on European affairs inside and outside Europe.
Learn more$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.
Learn more$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.
Learn more$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