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.
Towards core costs
To continue the development of the open syllabus project – to gather and analyse the world’s syllabi and make this information freely available to the academic community and the public.
$1,750,000
2022
2 years
Offline Internet Consortium
To provide access to offline materials to communities with no internet access. The project will bring together organizations with an interest in providing offline internet to under-served communities. It will support the development of new technology, additional content, and outreach
$300,000
2022
3 years
Director's discretionary fund
Towards supporting open access initiatives at MIT Press, elsewhere in MIT or outside MIT, as identified by the MIT Press Director.
$500,000
2022
3 years
Documenting cultural heritage in the Cook Islands and Niue - pilot study
To trial and assess remote sensing techniques and existing in-country data, and refining the proposed methodology for documenting cultural heritage on the islands, whilst strengthening local partner and community relationships
$87,079.20
2022
1 year
Towards core costs
$100,000
2022
1 year
MIT OpenCourseWare
To support the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) OpenCourseWare, an initiative to make all educational materials from MIT’s undergraduate- and graduate-level courses freely available online
$100,000
2022
1 year
Advancing Open Access
advancing open access
$500,000
2022
3 years
Advancing Open Access
$500,000
2022
3 years
Advancing Open Access
$250,000
2022
1 year
Advancing Open Access
Advancing open access
$250,000
2022
1 year
Advancing Open Access
$200,000
2022
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum
$100,000
2022
1 year
Open Access Book Prizes
To set up and run the American Council of Learned Society open access book prizes. The prizes will go to authors of open access monographs and their publishers to support forthcoming books that would not otherwise be published open access
$1,600,000
2022
6 years
To support NYPL's digital work
To make in-copyright books more widely available online via NYPL’s Digital Research Books platform
$5,000,000
2022
1 year
Institute for Archival Research
Towards construction costs for the Wende Museum's international centre for digitization and conservation of at-risk post-war archives
$3,300,000
2022
1 year
Arcadia Open Access Fund
Towards a matched endowment to support open access programmes at MIT Press including open monographs, open journals and open publishing services
$10,000,000
2022
6 years
Towards the Wikimedia endowment
Towards the Wikimedia endowment
$2,000,000
2022
1 year
Invest in open infrastructure
To improve funding and resourcing for the open technology and systems that research relies on
$3,470,000
2021
3 years
Inventory of Maritime Archaeology in Pakistan
To develop a publicly accessible inventory of maritime archaeological resources in Pakistan to enable future scientific research and effective heritage management.
$495,354
2021
2 years
Digitization of manuscripts in Africa and Asia
To continue the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library’s work digitizing endangered manuscripts in Africa and Asia, and to make them available online in an open-access repository.
$5,492,813
2021
5 years