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.
Historical Ice Core Project
Harvard University (Department of History)
http://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/historical-ice-core-heart-europe
To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps and make the results freely available online.
$495,000
2016
3 years
Nepal cultural heritage documentation project
To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley and make the resulting material freely available online.
$945,748
2018
2 years
Nepal Heritage Documentation Project
To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley and make the resulting materials freely available online.
$3,006,209
2020
6 years
Desert of the Mamluks documentation project
To document endangered built heritage and oral traditions in the ‘Desert of the Mamluks’ in Cairo’s ‘City of the Dead’ necropolis, and make the resulting materials freely available online.
$79,730
2021
1 year
Digitization of manuscripts in Africa and Asia
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and make them freely available online.
$5,492,813
2021
5 years
Digitization of manuscripts in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and the Balkans
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and the Balkans and make them freely available online.
$5,000,000
2026
5 years
Digitization of manuscripts in the Middle East and Africa
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and to make them freely available online.
$4,000,000
2016
5 years
Digitization of manuscripts in the Middle East and Africa
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and to make them freely available online.
$3,000,000
2011
5 years
Digitisation of historic aerial photographs from the Middle East and North Africa
To support the digitization of historic aerial photographs from the Middle East and North Africa to provide accurately geo-referenced mosaics of aerial photographic coverage, and to make the results freely available online.
$404,739.45
2026
1 year
Mosfell Archaeological Project
To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with UCLA and Vikingaminjar ehf.
$100,000
2011
3 years
3D-scanning of heritage sites in Syria and Iraq
To create 3D scans of monuments in Syria and to make the results freely available online.
$196,490
2016
1 year
Dead Sea Scrolls online database
To develop resources related to the Dead Sea Scrolls and make them freely available online.
$1,000,000
2010
4 years
Arches Endowment
To support the Arches open-source software platform, including the software’s maintenance and technology upgrades, ongoing enhancements, and advancing the capacity of the world-wide open-source community to implement Arches.
$1,500,000
2025
1 year
Arches Endowment
To support the Arches open-source software platform, including the software’s maintenance and technology upgrades, ongoing enhancements, and advancing the capacity of the world-wide open-source community to implement Arches.
$1,000,000
2024
1 year
Impact assessment of digitised collections
To research methods of assessing the impact of digitized collections.
$143,000
2011
1 year
Sudan Memory project review
To review and further develop best practice models for cultural heritage digitization, using the Sudan Memory project as the starting point.
$125,470.80
2024
1 year
Maritime Asia Heritage Survey
To document endangered heritage sites from Maritime Southern Asia: Thailand, Indonesia and the Maldives, and make the results freely available online.
$6,253,809
2020
5 years
Preserving the Full Legacy of Yiddish Poet A. N. Stencl
To collect and digitize endangered archival material related to the Yiddish poet Abraham Nahum Stencl (1897-1983) and make the results freely available online.
$314,763
2024
2 years
Inventory of Maritime Archaeology in Pakistan
Pilot project to create an inventory of maritime archaeological resources in Pakistan and make the results freely available online.
$495,354
2021
2 years
Mongolia Heritage Sites Survey
To create a publicly accessible database of endangered archaeological heritage in Mongolia using satellite imagery and on-the-ground survey.
$2,423,967
2020
5 years