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 February 2026). 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.
Operating and acquisition costs
To acquire, preserve, catalogue and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
$275,000
2008
3 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$191,750
2008
1 year
History of Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism (Toledot Torat Hasod Ha'ivrit)
To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan’s multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism.
$150,000
2008
3 years
Promoting science for all
To support public outreach to help people connect with science and benefit from it.
$91,065
2008
1 year
Harvard Library: collection and preservation services
To catalogue and digitize documents on Harvard’s history, and to run the Library Lab programme to create better digital services for students and faculty.
$5,000,000
2009
6 years
UCLA Library digitization
To digitize vulnerable collections in UCLA’s library and ephemera identified through the Collecting Los Angeles project, and make these collections freely available online.
$5,000,000
2009
5 years
Operating and acquisition costs
To acquire, preserve, catalogue and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
$5,000,000
2009
4 years
Support to Yale University Library
To catalogue and digitize collections of primary materials, especially those in non-Roman alphabets without previous transcriptions, and make them freely available online.
$5,000,000
2009
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
Conservation of birds and their habitats
To support BirdLife partners in high-biodiversity countries and to help them protect priority species and habitats.
$1,500,000
2009
5 years
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
To collect seeds and build in-country conservation capacity in biodiverse hotspots experiencing rapid and drastic land use changes.
$1,348,479
2009
5 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Collaborative Conservation Research Fund
To support collaborative research among the Cambridge Conservation Initiative partners.
$1,319,458
2009
3 years
Oral History of British Science
To develop an oral history archive of voices and memories for the study of 20th-century science in Britain and make it freely available online via the British Library.
$793,371
2009
5 years
Conservation Evidence
To publish and make widely available evidence-based conservation strategies to help conservation practitioners make effective decisions.
$540,668
2009
6 years
Changing US ocean management
To support work to improve marine spatial planning (co-ordinated protection of the oceans) in US Government ocean policy.
$500,000
2009
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
Improving public policy through better understanding of history
To connect historians with policy-makers.
$152,000
2009
1 year
Survey of digital resources in African universities
To assess the need for, and improve engagement with, digital resources in African universities.
$105,798
2009
1 year
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To improve methods of backlighting palimpsest folios of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, in preparation for their digitization.
$85,000
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