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 August 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.
Towards the Theory of the Foundation learning collaborative
To support the development of the field of knowledge about foundations as institutions.
$50,000
2020
2 years
Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation
To train leaders in global conflict resolution.
$101,560
2007
2 years
Institute for Historical Justice and Reconciliation
To train leaders in global conflict resolution.
$89,150
2006
1 year
Expanding the network
To develop the Scholars at Risk network in Spain, Norway and Turkey and secure positions for scholars from Iran, Iraq and Bhutan.
$464,550
2006
1 year
To establish an eye health fund in Asia and Africa
To support existing and new eye health programmes in Asia and Africa.
$1,000,000
2018
1 year
Core support
Core support for the European Review of Books.
$160,000.20
2025
3 years
Core support
Core support for the European Review of Books.
$22,000
2023
1 year
Centre for Economics and Financial Research
To develop a new Russian economics think tank.
$1,238,300
2004
2 years
MBA programme
To create an international executive MBA programme.
$4,336,000
2002
1 year
Imperial College mathematics summer school
To improve state school students’ maths skills through a summer school programme at Imperial College.
$139,365
2006
1 year
Digitising the National Farm Survey
To digitize the records of the National Farm Survey of England and Wales (1941-1943), and make them freely available online, together with a tool that makes each farm searchable.
$2,553,878
2023
3 years
Post-doctoral fellowships
Towards supporting post-doctoral researchers in the Center for Early Global Studies at UCLA.
$552,693
2023
5 years
Core support
$2,500,000
2024
1 year
Core support
To support the running costs of the Ukrainian Red Cross.
$141,752
2025
1 year
Core support
$130,207.50
2025
1 year
Core support
To support the running costs of the Ukrainian Red Cross.
$67,500
2025
1 year
Towards the COVID19 Solidarity Response Fund
To support the global response to the COVID-19 crisis.
$500,000
2020
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
To establish the Medieval and European Faculty Support Fund
To establish a fund to support the filling of three established endowed chairs: the Henry J Bruman Endowed Chair in German History, the Eugene Weber Chair in Modern European History and the Robert and Dorothy Wellman Chair in Medieval History.
$5,000,000
2019
5 years
To establish the Scott Waugh Fund for Medieval History, and endowment for the History Department.
To establish the Scott Waugh Fund for Medieval History to support work that the chair of the UCLA History Department determines to be beneficial to the field of medieval history at UCLA.
$1,000,000
2018
1 year