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.
Digitization of manuscripts in the Middle East and Africa
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and to make them freely available online.
$3,000,000
2011
5 years
Dead Sea Scrolls online database
To develop resources related to the Dead Sea Scrolls and make them freely available online.
$1,000,000
2010
4 years
Impact assessment of digitised collections
To research methods of assessing the impact of digitized collections.
$143,000
2011
1 year
Preserving the Full Legacy of Yiddish Poet A. N. Stencl
To collect and digitize endangered archival material related to the Yiddish poet Abraham Nahum Stencl (1897-1983) and make the results freely available online.
$314,763
2024
2 years
Documenting the contemporary history of science in India
To collect and digitize at-risk material related to the history of science in South Asia since the early 19th century, and to make the results freely available online, along with a prototype tool for interpretation and access, and public annotation of archival material.
$440,000
2022
3 years
Digitizing Israeli Ephemera
To collect, digitize and preserve printed ephemera from the early history of modern Israel and make them freely available online.
$1,991,702
2011
4 years
Maktoub - Digital preservation and open access to Arabic and Islamic manuscripts and rare books
To digitize manuscripts and books, including the Yahuda collection and Arab-Palestinian collection, and make them freely available online with metadata in Arabic and English.
$780,485
2019
1 year
Palestinian Museum Digital Archive
To digitize endangered, dispersed and inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, videos and ephemeral materials representing the culture and history of Palestine from 1800 to the present and to make them freely available online.
$1,900,000
2020
3 years
Palestinian Museum Digital Archive
To digitize endangered, dispersed and inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, videos and ephemeral materials representing the culture and history of Palestine from 1800 to the present and make them freely available online.
$1,900,000
2017
3 years
The Einstein Papers Project
To preserve the archive of Einstein’s scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and make it freely available online.
$300,000
2023
3 years
National Anthropological Archives
To digitize a collection of ethnographic sound recordings and associated manuscripts and make it freely available online.
$1,000,000
2013
3 years
Trinity College Medieval Manuscripts
To digitize fourteen medieval manuscripts in the collection of Trinity College Dublin and make the results freely available online.
$200,000
2023
2 years
Publication of African rock art image collection
To work with the British Museum to preserve, curate and share a photographic archive of more than 20,000 African rock art images and make it freely available online.
$260,000
2012
1 year
Digitization of Syriac and Arabic manuscripts in Saint Catherine Monastery, Sinai
To digitize the Arabic and Syriac manuscript codices in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, and make the results freely available online.
$980,051
2018
3 years
Sinai Library Digitization Project
To digitize more of the remaining manuscripts of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, including newly discovered palimpsests, and make the results freely available online.
$2,014,000
2022
3 years
Sinai Palimpsest Project open access online publication
To make multispectral images of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, freely available online.
$200,000
2014
2 years
UCLA Library digitization
To digitize vulnerable collections in UCLA’s library and ephemera identified through the Collecting Los Angeles project, and make these collections freely available online.
$5,000,000
2009
5 years
Digitization of manuscripts in South-East Asia
To fund large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia and make these freely available online.
$2,173,500
2017
5 years
DiPiKA - Digitization and Preservation of Kerala Archives
To survey and digitize some of the most important collections of palm-leaf manuscripts in the Thrissur and Ernakulam districts in Kerala, India in both institutional and family collections and to make the results freely available online.
$823,939
2022
5 years
Wende archival digitization
To digitize approximately 50,000 pages of the most important archival material held by the Wende and make it freely available online.
$450,000
2019
3 years