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.
Halcyon Land & Sea
To work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.
$800,000
2011
1 year
Halcyon Land & Sea fund
To work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.
$5,000,000
2006
6 years
Halcyon Marine Initiative
To work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich marine habitats.
$5,000,000
2011
4 years
Halcyon Marine Initiative
To work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich marine habitats.
$3,750,000
2015
4 years
Halcyon Programmes and core institutional support
To provide core support for Fauna & Flora and support its work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.
$25,960,684
2017
6 years
Chief scientific officer's post
To provide advice to the Trust and its partners on wild land conservation and biodiversity management.
$302,420
2008
3 years
Legacy Landscapes Fund match grants
Match funding to create long-term endowments for the conservation of large landscapes centred on Chiribiquete (Colombia), Makira-Masoala (Madagascar) and Tambrauw (Indonesia).
$25,000,000
2023
1 year
Core support to re:wild
To provide core support to re:wild to help it expand its work as a regranting partner and fiscal sponsor for nature conservation organizations worldwide.
$6,000,000
2022
5 years
Rewilding Argentina Ibera Wildfire Crisis Fund
To provide a donation to Rewilding Argentina’s Iberá Wildlife Crisis Fund, paid through its fiscal sponsor re:wild.
$100,000
2022
1 year
Advancing rewilding across Europe
To promote nature restoration across Europe through the development of innovative models, including a grant programme to accelerate wildlife comeback in Europe.
$4,999,995
2022
5 years
Advancing Rewilding in Europe
To support work to restore nature in Europe by: encouraging wildlife comeback, improving policy frameworks to facilitate rewilding, and developing new models to mobilise financial sector support for rewilding.
$1,776,641
2019
3 years
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
To collect seeds and build in-country conservation capacity in biodiverse hotspots experiencing rapid and drastic land use changes.
$2,000,000
2013
6 years
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
To collect seeds and build in-country conservation capacity in biodiverse hotspots experiencing rapid and drastic land use changes.
$1,348,479
2009
5 years
Improving Biodiversity
Towards the restoration of the historic lake, construction of the new lake, and other work to improve the biodiversity of the gardens at the RHS Bridgewater site.
$642,096
2019
1 year
On the ground conservation work in the trust's wildlife reserves
Towards work on the Perthshire wildlife reserves and on the Largiebaan restoration project.
$256,838
2018
1 year
Rainforest seed conservation
To develop techniques for storing seeds not suitable for traditional seed preservation methods.
$600,000
2012
5 years
Eternal Mongolia - Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund
To complete the match fund for a newly established Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund which will oversee the Eternal Mongolia Project Finance for Permanence initiative.
$6,000,000
2024
5 years
Ecosystem connectivity in threatened South American landscapes
To work with local partners to conserve and manage threatened high-biodiversity areas.
$1,800,000
2014
3 years
Acquisition of six properties in Argentina and Chile
To acquire properties of strategic value in Argentina and Chile to expand existing park areas, rewild degraded landscapes and advance biodiversity conservation.
$15,100,000
2019
5 years
Patagonia National Park
To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing ecologically important land next to Patagonia Park in Chile.
$3,370,000
2016
2 years