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.

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Nature

Grant recipient

Crisis Support Fund

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

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

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

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.

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$31,436,821

2017

7 years