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 August 2026). 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.
Conservation of birds and their habitats
To support BirdLife partners in high-biodiversity countries and to help them protect priority species and habitats.
$1,800,000
2013
6 years
Conservation of birds and their habitats
To support BirdLife partners in high-biodiversity countries and to help them protect priority species and habitats.
$1,500,000
2009
5 years
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
Refuseniks & Activists: The Soviet Jewish Emigration Project
To collate and digitize primary sources on the Soviet Jewish diaspora from disparate collections and make them freely available online.
$200,000
2023
2 years
Core support
To support Blue Ventures to rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities.
$2,500,000
2022
5 years
Core support
To support Borderland Foundation (Fundacja Pogranicze) deliver cross-border cultural and community exchanges.
$100,000
2021
4 years
Documenting cultural heritage in the Cook Islands and Niue - pilot study
For a pilot project to test remote sensing techniques and existing in-country data for documenting cultural heritage on the islands.
$87,079
2022
1 year
Endangered Archives Programme
To support a grant programme to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration, covering rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century, and to make the records freely available online.
$16,960,153
2004
13 years
Oral History of British Science
To develop an oral history archive of voices and memories for the study of 20th-century science in Britain and make it freely available online via the British Library.
$793,371
2009
5 years
Documentation of archaeological archives in Egypt
British Museum
http://britishmuseum.org/about_us/departments/egypt_and_sudan/egypt_documentation_project.aspx
To provide training for Egyptian heritage specialists to digitize and publish online glass plate photographs of early archaeological displays.
$336,304
2015
2 years
TARA image project
To preserve the Trust for African Rock Art’s (TARA) photographic archive and make it freely available online.
$1,345,590
2012
6 years
Promoting science for all
To support public outreach to help people connect with science and benefit from it.
$91,065
2008
1 year
Yaeda Valley project
Towards protecting the forested ancestral homeland of the Hadza hunter-gatherers in the Yaeda Valley.
$71,280
2022
1 year
Supporting restoration leaders
To support eight young, local restoration leaders to attend the COP16 and Global Landscapes Forum events in Cali, Colombia in October 2024.
$15,000
2024
1 year
Core support
To support fundraising activities for the Center for Jewish History.
$2,000,000
2021
1 year
Core support
To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.
$100,000
2025
1 year
Core support
To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.
$100,000
2024
1 year
Core support
To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.
$100,000
2023
1 year
Core support
To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.
$100,000
2022
1 year
Endowment for the Center for Jewish History
To support the Center’s fundraising to enable its work in digitizating and preserving archives.
$3,500,000
2018
3 years