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.
Core support
To support Borderland Foundation (Fundacja Pogranicze) deliver cross-border cultural and community exchanges.
$100,000
2021
4 years
Core support
Towards the theatre’s running costs.
$100,000
2021
1 year
Meeting room upgrade project
To provide AV equipment to support hybrid meetings at the Center for Jewish History.
$73,500
2021
1 year
Danish Jews in Theresienstadt website
Network for the Study of Nazism and the Holocaust
https://www.sdu.dk/da/om_sdu/institutter_centre/ih/forskning/forskningsnetvaerk/nnhs
To translate a website and exhibits on Danish Jewish deportees to Theresienstadt in 1943-4 into Czech, English, German and Swedish, and make the results freely available online.
$26,100
2021
1 year
Towards the COVID19 Solidarity Response Fund
To support the global response to the COVID-19 crisis.
$500,000
2020
1 year
Core support
Towards the theatre’s running costs.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Towards the Theory of the Foundation learning collaborative
To support the development of the field of knowledge about foundations as institutions.
$50,000
2020
2 years
To establish the Medieval and European Faculty Support Fund
To establish a fund to support the filling of three established endowed chairs: the Henry J Bruman Endowed Chair in German History, the Eugene Weber Chair in Modern European History and the Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History.
$5,000,000
2019
5 years
Towards the second phase of the Illuminated River
To support a scheme for lighting central London’s bridges along the River Thames.
$4,840,000
2019
1 year
Towards mobile outreach teams to support women and girls most in need
For the Blue Door Fund to support outreach services where they are most needed.
$7,000,000
2018
1 year
Towards the Pauline Yu Fellowship Fund in Chinese or Comparative Literature
To provide a lead gift for a fellowship scheme in Chinese or Comparative Literature.
$1,000,000
2018
1 year
To establish an eye health fund in Asia and Africa
To support existing and new eye health programmes in Asia and Africa.
$1,000,000
2018
1 year
To establish the Scott Waugh Fund for Medieval History, and endowment for the History Department.
To establish the Scott Waugh Fund for Medieval History to support work that the chair of the UCLA History Department determines to be beneficial to the field of medieval history at UCLA.
$1,000,000
2018
1 year
An oral history of farming, land management and conservation in post-war Britain
To develop an oral history archive of experiences of the change in farming practices, landownership and land management in Britain after 1945 and make it freely available online via the British Library.
$419,427
2018
4 years
Core support
To support the Council’s research on European foreign and security policy and provide a space for decision-makers, activists and influencers to share ideas.
$256,838
2018
1 year
Core support
To support IntoUniversity deliver its mission to establish local learning centres that inspire young people to achieve.
$256,838
2018
1 year
Illuminated River Project
To support a scheme for lighting central London’s bridges along the River Thames.
$6,162,728
2017
3 years
Henry Koerner Hall
Towards a new building for student accommodations.
$2,241,088
2017
1 year
The Hall of Graduate Studies
To refurbish the Hall of Graduate Studies and to support work to transform it into a centre for the humanities at Yale.
$25,000,000
2015
3 years
President's discretionary fund for Harvard Library
To support the work of Harvard Library.
$5,000,000
2011
5 years