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.
Crisis Support Fund
Fauna & Flora International
http://cms.fauna-flora.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2020_FFI_Partner-Crisis-Support-Fund.pdf
To establish an emergency response fund to support Fauna & Flora’s partner organizations which were affected by COVID-19.
$1,039,316
2020
1 year
Earth Journalism Network - Biodiversity Media Initiative
To support local journalists to investigate and report worldwide on the threats to biodiversity and nature-based solutions.
$750,000
2020
3 years
Global Urban Alliance
International Union for Conservation of Nature
https://iucn.org/news/secretariat/201809/iucn-launches-global-alliance-greener-cities
To establish a global alliance to develop and promote a standard set of indicators on urban ecosystem health that enable cities to identify the challenges of becoming greener environments and evaluate their efforts to do so.
$434,700
2020
3 years
Conservation Evidence
To publish and make widely available evidence-based conservation strategies to help conservation practitioners make effective decisions.
$177,672
2020
1 year
Nature's Strongholds programme
To support long-term conservation by establishing or expanding protected areas and strengthening conservation of the most important existing wilderness areas.
$20,000,000
2019
4 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
Core support to Conservation Leadership Programme
To increase the overall impact and ensure the long-term sustainability of the Conservation Leadership Programme.
$5,999,917
2019
6 years
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership – Threatened Biodiversity Hotspots Programme
To collect seeds and build in-country conservation capacity in biodiverse hotspots experiencing rapid and drastic land use changes.
$3,250,980
2019
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
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
Marine Wildlife Protection
To influence policy that helps to protect and restore marine life and ecosystems in high biodiversity areas.
$10,500,000
2018
7 years
Wildlife Defence Programme
To use legal tools and advocacy to enforce laws that protect European wildlife and habitats.
$2,992,500
2018
5 years
Conservation of East Asian-Australasian Flyway
Wetlands International
https://wetlands.org/news/arcadia-fund-helps-us-support-restoration-management-critical-habitats
To conserve and restore degraded habitats in the Yellow Sea region in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.
$1,740,000
2018
5 years
Conservation of Freshwater Biodiversity in Key River Ecosystems
International Rivers
https://www.internationalrivers.org/blogs/734/protecting-freshwater-biodiversity-how-international-r
To support International Rivers’ work to influence how rivers are governed, protected in law and valued to help ensure our rivers continue to support diverse habitats and wildlife.
$1,250,000
2018
5 years
Core costs
To help the foundation and its work to build a greener and more democratic Europe.
$1,018,754
2018
1 year
Patagonia National Park
To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing ecologically important land next to Patagonia Park in Chile.
$490,000
2018
1 year
Deep Sea Conservation Coalition
To support DSCC’s work to protect deep-sea ecosystems from fishing and mining, and to strengthen biodiversity conservation and governance in international oceans.
$472,000
2018
5 years
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
Mountain Willow Project
To propagate and plant rare and hard-to-grow montane scrub willow species.
$256,000
2018
5 years
Endangered Landscapes Programme
To support a grant programme to support large-scale projects to restore biodiversity-rich habitats across Europe at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.
Learn more$31,436,821
2017
7 years