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.
Core support to re:wild
$6,000,000
2022
5 years
To support people and National Parks impacted by the war in Ukraine.
To support a collaboration between Frankfurt Zoological Society and Foundation Conservation Carpathia to provide equipment and supplies for people in Ukraine's national parks.
$297,500
2022
1 year
To support people and National Parks impacted by the war in Ukraine.
Frankfurt Zoological Society
https://fzs.org/en/support/emergency-support-for-protected-areas-in-the-carpathians/
To support a collaboration between Frankfurt Zoological Society and Foundation Conservation Carpathia to provide equipment and supplies for people in Ukraine's national parks.
$297,500
2022
1 year
Documenting the contemporary history of science in India
To collect, preserve and make available online endangered cultural artefacts related to the contemporary (~200 years) history of science in South Asia. It will also develop a prototype tool for interpretation and access through linked open data and public annotation of archival material
$440,000
2022
3 years
Sinai Library Digitization Project
To digitize and publish online more of the remaining manuscripts of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai beyond the Arabic and Syriac manuscripts digitized in phase I, as well as newly discovered palimpsests
$2,014,000
2022
3 years
Anticaste archives: Preserving historical and cultural memory
To digitize Dalit community and family archives in India, and to make these materials available in an open-access digital archive
$1,700,000
2022
5 years
Yaeda Valley project
Towards protecting the forested ancestral homeland of the Hadza hunter-gatherers in the Yaeda Valley.
$71,280
2022
1 year
Documenting Ukraine fellowships
To support journalists, scholars, artists, public intellectuals and archivists based in Ukraine.
$1,273,300
2022
2 years
Rewilding Argentina Ibera Wildfire Crisis Fund
To provide a donation to Rewilding Argentina's Ibera Wildlife Crisis Fund, paid through their fiscal sponsor re:wild
$100,000
2022
1 year
Mapping Pre-Columbian archaeological heritage in South America
To produce an integrated public access database for the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia.
$2,270,637
2022
3 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, Kerala, India in both institutional and family collections. These will be made available online in an open-access repository
$823,939
2022
5 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Masters in Conservation Leadership
Masters in Conservation Leadership - University of Cambridge
https://www.cambridgeconservation.org/our-work/mphil-in-conservation-leadership/
To support Miriam Rothschild scholars to participate in the Cambridge Masters in Conservation Leadership.
$3,000,000
2022
10 years
Environmental Leadership & Training Initiative (ELTI)
To train conservation practitioners in tropical Asia and Central America to enable them to take responsibility for local and national conservation
$3,000,000
2022
5 years
Safeguarding the ocean for future generations: Advancing equity, science and capacity
To support the operations of the Deep-Ocean Stewardship Initiative (DOSI), so that it can continue to provide evidence-based advice to inform international policy concerning the management and conservation of the deep ocean.
$4,641,000
2022
10 years
California Language Archive
To provide core support to the California Language Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.
$500,000
2022
5 years
Towards core costs
To continue the development of the open syllabus project – to gather and analyse the world’s syllabi and make this information freely available to the academic community and the public.
$1,750,000
2022
2 years
Towards the development phase of a new film by Lizzie MacKenzie.
Towards the development phase of a documentary film.
$26,000
2022
1 year
Digitizing the Arthur and Janet Freeman Biblioteca Fictiva Collection
To digitize and make publicly accessible items from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of rare books and manuscripts on the history of forgery.
$222,825
2022
1 year
Campaign to Increase Open Access to Research on Climate and Biodiversity
Towards enabling Creative Commons, EIFL, and SPARC to execute a global campaign that promotes the open sharing of climate and biodiversity research, making immediate open access publishing the default. The campaign aims to empower governments, institutions, and activists who currently lead critical climate and biodiversity work, to embed open practices and policies in their operations.
$2,200,100
2022
4 years
Offline Internet Consortium
To provide access to offline materials to communities with no internet access. The project will bring together organizations with an interest in providing offline internet to under-served communities. It will support the development of new technology, additional content, and outreach
$300,000
2022
3 years