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.
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
Protecting biodiversity through law
Scoping grant to explore a regranting programme on protecting biodiversity through law.
$110,000
2024
1 year
Core costs
To help the foundation and its work to build a greener and more democratic Europe.
$1,018,754
2018
1 year
EU Nature Restoration Law
To provide support to environmental organizations, citizen groups and grassroots movements to strengthen the EU’s negotiation of the Nature Restoration Law.
$1,100,000
2023
1 year
To build and protect strong legislative mechanisms for nature conservation and restoration in Europe.
To support sound implementation of nature legislation in Europe, with a focus on forest resilience.
$2,754,000
2025
2.5 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
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
Combating illegal and unsustainable logging in tropical forests
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.
$668,449
2016
3 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
Preserving Climate-Critical Rainforests
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.
$3,795,000
2023
5 years
Conservation of Freshwater Biodiversity in Key River Ecosystems
International Rivers
https://www.internationalrivers.org/blogs/734/protecting-freshwater-biodiversity-how-international-r
To support International Rivers’ work to influence how rivers are governed, protected in law and valued to help ensure our rivers continue to support diverse habitats and wildlife.
$1,250,000
2018
5 years
Earth Journalism Network
To support local journalists to investigate and report worldwide on the threats to biodiversity and nature-based solutions.
$450,000
2015
4 years
Earth Journalism Network - Biodiversity Media Initiative
To support local journalists to investigate and report worldwide on the threats to biodiversity and nature-based solutions.
$750,000
2020
3 years
Changing US ocean management
To support work to improve marine spatial planning (co-ordinated protection of the oceans) in US Government ocean policy.
$500,000
2010
4 years
Changing US ocean management
To support work to improve marine spatial planning (co-ordinated protection of the oceans) in US Government ocean policy.
$500,000
2009
2 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support the Institute’s work to secure lasting protections for marine habitats.
$1,500,000
2007
1 year
Core costs of the organisation
To support the Institute’s work to secure lasting protections for marine habitats.
$1,050,000
2011
3 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support the Institute’s work to secure lasting protections for marine habitats.
$450,000
2010
4 years
Baltic Sea Campaign
To enforce existing laws and regulations to reduce illegal fishing and identify areas in need of protection.
$1,000,000
2010
2 years
Campaigns to protect and restore the world's oceans
To promote fishing policies that protect habitats in the Americas, tropical Asia and Europe.
$5,000,000
2013
5 years