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.
Mosfell Archaeological Project
To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with UCLA and the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies.
$100,000
2011
2 years
Open Access Initiative
National Library of Israel
http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/digitallibrary/time_journey/Pages/default.aspx
To establish the library as a model for open access.
$300,000
2014
1 year
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
Protected Planet
Towards the core costs of the Protected Planet platform
$5,000,000
2021
5 years
Reading and Writing Gallery
To showcase the origins and development of reading and writing across cultures, from the fourth century BC to the printing press.
$1,747,700
2006
1 year
Survey of digital resources in African universities
To assess the need for, and improve engagement with, digital resources in African universities.
$105,798
2009
1 year
Turning Wikipedia references blue
To digitize and make available online 100,000 books that are cited in Wikipedia.
$2,000,000
2019
1 year
Universal Library Project
To research the feasibility of developing a universal digital library.
$50,000
2007
1 year
Wikipedia Zero
To expand Wikipedia Zero, which gives free, mobile access to Wikipedia to people who cannot afford mobile data costs.
$100,000
2014
1 year
Digital library for the study of Africa
To build an online library of scholarly resources and make it freely available online to users from African institutions.
$2,500,000
2007
1 year
Open Syllabus Project
To support the Open Syllabus Project in building the first large-scale online database of titles of works used in millions of university course syllabi.
$220,000
2016
1 year
Open Access Book Prizes
To set up and run a prize programme for authors and publishers of open access academic books.
$1,600,000
2022
6 years
Towards the Centennial Campaign
To extend the reach of the Council’s fellowship programme.
$2,000,000
2017
4 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
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
American University Washington College of Law
https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/pijip/
For research and advocacy at the World Intellectual Property Office to secure reforms for greater access to scholarly research through exceptions to copyright law.
$3,800,000
2020
3 years
Project on Copyright and the Right to Research
For research and advocacy at the World Intellectual Property Office to secure reforms for greater access to scholarly research through exceptions to copyright law.
$6,500,000
2024
5 years
Offline Internet Consortium
To provide access to online materials to communities with no internet access.
$300,000
2022
3 years
Developing a new sustainable membership model
To develop training resources for academic authors who want to publish open access.
$500,000
2018
2 years
To support the Bard core endowment
Towards the core endowment in recognition of the Bard Network’s work.
$5,000,000
2021
1 year
The Lumen Database
To support the Lumen database, which collects and analyses legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials.
$1,500,000
2019
3 years