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 February 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.
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$1,000,000
2021
1 year
Strengthening open access in the USA.
To support policy and advocacy work to improve open access to research outputs in the United States and support academic community control of key research communication infrastructure.
$500,000
2021
3 years
control ©
To advance all forms of freedom of communication, wherever these are unduly constrained by copyright and information laws.
$452,200
2021
3 years
Opening access to conservation knowledge
To increase the online accessibility of conservation research publications.
$442,800
2021
3 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
Advancing open access
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$103,500
2021
1 year
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
American University Washington College of Law
https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/pijip/
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