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.

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Open Access

Grant recipient

Advancing Open Access

$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