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.
Strengthening open access in the USA
To support policy and advocacy work to improve open access to research outputs in the United States.
$6,000,000
2024
6 years
A framework to make more books freely available online
To develop technology, policies and partnerships that will help to make more scholarly books freely available for researchers online.
$5,000,000
2018
3 years
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2023
1 year
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2022
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2024
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2014
1 year
Enabling digital access to books
To improve discovery and availability of digital books via libraries, build a corpus of freely- or easily-accessible digital books; pilot and scale innovative models to negotiate rights to serve more books digitally; and identify more titles to make available digitally.
$15,000,000
2024
3 years
Library Futures
To support librarians, policymakers, and community leaders to get fair access to digital content and services.
$2,500,000
2025
4 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
Arabic Collections Online
To help digitize 23,000 books from NYU Library’s Arabic collections and make them freely available online.
$1,340,000
2018
3 years
FragDenStaat: Democratising Public Databases
To make German government documents and unfairly restricted information freely available online.
$1,205,100
2023
4 years
Core costs
To support Open Syllabus in its mission to gather and analyse academic syllabi and make this information freely available online.
$1,500,000
2020
3 years
Towards core costs
To support Open Syllabus in its mission to gather and analyse academic syllabi and make this information freely available online.
$1,750,000
2022
2 years