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 Akhuwat's flood relief work in Pakistan
To provide interest-free micro-loans to rebuild homes and to support businesses and agriculture in areas impacted by the floods in Pakistan
$250,000
2022
1 year
Towards the development phase of a new film by Lizzie MacKenzie.
Towards the development phase of a documentary film.
$26,000
2022
1 year
Advancing Open Access
advancing open access
$500,000
2022
3 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
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
Campaign to Increase Open Access to Research on Climate and Biodiversity
Towards enabling Creative Commons, EIFL, and SPARC to execute a global campaign that promotes the open sharing of climate and biodiversity research, making immediate open access publishing the default. The campaign aims to empower governments, institutions, and activists who currently lead critical climate and biodiversity work, to embed open practices and policies in their operations.
$2,200,100
2022
4 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
California Language Archive
To provide core support to the California Language Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.
$500,000
2022
5 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
Documenting Ukraine fellowships
To continue to support journalists, scholars, artists, public intellectuals and archivists based in Ukraine
$540,000
2022
1 year
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
Towards making materials on Danish Jewish in World War II available to wider audiences
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 Jews deportees to Theresienstadt into Czech, English, German and Swedish.
$26,100
2021
1 year
Conservation Evidence
To help conservation practitioners to make effective decisions by publishing and disseminating evidence-based conservation strategies.
$138,000
2021
1 year
To support the Bard core endowment
Towards the core endowment in recognition of the Bard Network's work.
$5,000,000
2021
1 year