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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Grant recipient

Core costs

To help 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

$5,000,000

2011

5 years

Promotion of UK philanthropy

To support the Institute’s work to increase the effectiveness of philanthropy through education and raising awareness.

$1,777,138

2009

5 years

Improving public policy through better understanding of history

$152,000

2009

1 year

International Institute and Department of History

To support a visiting professorship in the International Institute and Department of History.

$75,000

2009

5 years

Weidenfeld Scholarships and Leadership Programme

To provide five bursaries for graduates and young professionals from the USA to undertake graduate studies at Oxford University.

$2,623,373

2008

5 years

Core costs of the organisation

To support the Institute’s cultural, educational and policy programmes.

$2,170,173

2008

5 years

Hans Rausing Scholarships endowment fund

To endow a programme of PhD scholarships at Imperial College.

$1,970,100

2008

5 years

Transforming library services

To set up a fellowship programme exploring how technology can improve access to information.

$981,300

2008

2 years

Promoting science for all

To support public outreach to help people connect with science and benefit from it.

$91,065

2008

1 year

Sidney Verba Library endowment fund

To contribute to a permanent endowment to support innovation in digital acquisitions and collections and their preservation.

$1,000,000

2007

5 years

Graduate and post-graduate bursaries

To support female graduates attending the institute and provide bursaries to help them to pursue Masters’ and PhD programmes in South Africa.

$705,420

2007

1 year

Fellowship scheme

To help refugee academics re-establish their professional lives.

$358,596

2007

2 years

Research Centre of Excellence

To acquire a site for an advanced research centre, in partnership with Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Paris-Sud XI and the South African universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch, and the Western Cape.

$313,605

2007

2 years

Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation

To train leaders in global conflict resolution.

$101,560

2007

2 years

Visiting fellowship

$64,691

2007

1 year

Religion and Democracy in Europe

To research how Europe can peacefully accommodate changing attitudes to religion without compromising secular democratic freedoms.

$19,472

2007

1 year