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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Culture

Grant recipient

Inventory of Maritime Archaeology in Pakistan

Pilot project to create an inventory of maritime archaeological resources in Pakistan and make the results freely available online.

$495,354

2021

2 years

Documenting the contemporary history of science in India

To collect and digitize at-risk material related to the history of science in South Asia since the early 19th century, and to make the results freely available online, along with a prototype tool for interpretation and access, and public annotation of archival material.

$440,000

2022

3 years

Digitizing Israeli Ephemera

To collect, digitize and preserve printed ephemera from the early history of modern Israel and make them freely available online.

$1,991,702

2011

4 years

Maktoub - Digital preservation and open access to Arabic and Islamic manuscripts and rare books

To digitize manuscripts and books, including the Yahuda collection and Arab-Palestinian collection, and make them freely available online with metadata in Arabic and English.

$780,485

2019

1 year

Palestinian Museum Digital Archive

To digitize endangered, dispersed and inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, videos and ephemeral materials representing the culture and history of Palestine from 1800 to the present and to make them freely available online.

$1,900,000

2020

3 years

Palestinian Museum Digital Archive

To digitize endangered, dispersed and inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, videos and ephemeral materials representing the culture and history of Palestine from 1800 to the present and make them freely available online.

$1,900,000

2017

3 years

The Einstein Papers Project

To preserve the archive of Einstein’s scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and make it freely available online.

$300,000

2023

3 years

Endangered Languages Documentation Programme

To support a grant programme to document languages which are at risk of extinction, and build a digital archive to make the results freely available online.

$11,026,080

2015

7 years

National Anthropological Archives

To digitize a collection of ethnographic sound recordings and associated manuscripts and make it freely available online.

$1,000,000

2013

3 years

Trinity College Medieval Manuscripts

To digitize fourteen medieval manuscripts in the collection of Trinity College Dublin and make the results freely available online.

$200,000

2023

2 years

Exploration and conservation of African rock art

To support TARA’s digital archive and image library of African rock art.

$495,870

2009

3 years

Exploration and conservation of African rock art

To provide core support to help TARA’s mission to survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

$491,425

2008

2 years

Exploration and conservation of African rock art

To provide core support to help TARA’s mission to survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

$150,000

2012

0 years

Publication of African rock art image collection

To work with the British Museum to preserve, curate and share a photographic archive of more than 20,000 African rock art images and make it freely available online.

$260,000

2012

1 year

Core support

To support the Turquoise Mountain Trust’s work with artisans in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Jordan.

$30,285

2019

1 year

Mapping Pre-Columbian archaeological heritage in South America

To document the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia, and make the results freely available online.

$2,270,637

2022

3 years

Developing non-destructive methods to read texts in mummy cartonnages

To research non-destructive digital imaging technology to read texts on papyri in mummy cartonnages and make the results freely available online.

$83,000

2015

2 years

Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes

To document heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites from aerial and satellite imagery, and make the results freely available online.

$4,194,000

2023

5 years

Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes

To document heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites from aerial and satellite imagery, and make the results freely available online.

$3,843,700

2018

5 years

Documentation of endangered historic buildings with frescoes in Shanxi Province, China

To survey and document endangered buildings with frescoes in Shanxi Province from 500-1900 CE, and to create a bilingual database of the records that is freely available online.

$1,047,438

2018

6 years