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.
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$500,000
2022
3 years
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$500,000
2022
3 years
Offline Internet Consortium
To provide access to online materials to communities with no internet access.
$300,000
2022
3 years
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$250,000
2022
1 year
Advancing Open Access
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2022
1 year
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2022
1 year
MIT OpenCourseWare
To support an initiative to make educational materials from MIT’s undergraduate- and graduate-level courses freely available online.
$100,000
2022
1 year
Advancing open access at galleries, libraries, archives, and museums
To help more of the world’s public art galleries, libraries, archives and museums make their collections data and images freely available under Creative Commons licences or waivers.
$5,000,000
2021
5 years
Tools to steer academic systems to open research
To provide tools and data which make open-access research easier to find and use and to help libraries and researchers make better decisions.
$4,500,000
2021
3 years
Invest in open infrastructure
To improve funding and resourcing for open technology and systems which underpin access to scholarly research.
$3,470,000
2021
3 years
Tools to Advance Research Assessment (TARA)
To accelerate research assessment reform by undertaking analysis and creating tools and resources to help institutions in the United States and Europe.
$1,200,000
2021
3 years
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$1,000,000
2021
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$1,000,000
2021
1 year
Strengthening open access in the USA.
To support policy and advocacy work to improve open access to research outputs in the United States and support academic community control of key research communication infrastructure.
$500,000
2021
3 years
control ©
To advance all forms of freedom of communication, wherever these are unduly constrained by copyright and information laws.
$452,200
2021
3 years
Opening access to conservation knowledge
To increase the online accessibility of conservation research publications.
$442,800
2021
3 years
Open Library of Humanities & Janeway
To strengthen open access to scholarly work in the humanities disciplines, allowing everyone the freedom to access academic research.
$276,000
2021
2 years
Advancing open access
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$103,500
2021
1 year