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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Meeting room upgrade project

To provide AV equipment to support hybrid meetings at the Center for Jewish History

$73,500

2021

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 COVID19 Solidarity Response Fund

To support the global response to the COVID19 crisis.

$500,000

2020

1 year

Towards running costs

$100,000

2020

1 year

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 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

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 core costs

To provide core costs for the European Council on Foreign Relations.

$256,838

2018

1 year

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

Henry Koerner Hall

Towards a new building for student accommodations

$2,241,088

2017

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

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

$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