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.

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Open Access

Grant recipient

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2021

1 year

The next generation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare

To support an initiative to make educational materials from MIT’s undergraduate- and graduate-level courses freely available online.

$100,000

2021

1 year

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2021

1 year

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2021

1 year

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2021

1 year

Core funding

To enable Public.Resource.Org to expand its work in three key areas: access to edicts of government, text and data mining and access to knowledge.

$5,000,000

2020

5 years

Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

For research and advocacy at the World Intellectual Property Office to secure reforms for greater access to scholarly research through exceptions to copyright law.

$3,800,000

2020

3 years

Reforms to Deliver the Right to Culture, Learning and Research through Libraries

To promote copyright law reform and regulation at EU and national level to enable libraries to facilitate greater access to and use of copyrighted works for cultural, educational and research purposes.

$3,630,000

2020

3 years

OA.Works

To support the ‘Open Access Button’ project to help libraries improve users’ access to research articles.

$1,870,000

2020

4 years

Digitizing historical Swedish newspapers II

To digitize Swedish newspapers that are out of copyright (1645-1906) and make them freely available online.

$1,800,000

2020

2 years

Core costs

To support Open Syllabus in its mission to gather and analyse academic syllabi and make this information freely available online.

$1,500,000

2020

3 years

Strategic influence on digital policy making in the EU

To set up and support a strategic advocacy organization that will increase the ability of the open movement to strategically influence digital policy-making in the European Union.

$1,177,050

2020

4 years

Advancing open access

To help support general management, staff, IT equipment and training, fundraising, and governance.

$250,000

2020

1 year

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$200,000

2020

1 year

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2020

1 year

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2020

1 year

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2020

1 year

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2020

1 year

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$99,750

2020

1 year

Next generation library publishing

To develop new, cost-effective and community-governed open-access publishing tools and services for authors, editors and readers.

$2,200,000

2019

3 years