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.
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme gives grants to linguists and community members to document languages around the world that are at risk of falling silent. The programme makes the digital documentation of these languages freely available online.
Learn more$24,990,000
2021
10 years
The Age of Extinction series
To support the Age of Extinction series, a reporting project that aims to draw attention to the global biodiversity crisis. This grant will help sustain increased capacity and expand reporting on the planet’s biodiversity crisis, driving measurable impact through Guardian journalism.
$900,000
2021
3 years
To support the Wildlife Justice Commission’s (WJC’s) core operations.
To conduct intelligence-led, undercover investigations to gather evidence, working closely with law enforcement agencies to support the investigation and prosecution of high-level wildlife crime cases.
$1,190,000
2021
5 years
Support for the Environmental Governance Programme
To support the Forest Peoples Programme’s (FPP) environmental governance programme and its efforts to protect terrestrial biodiversity.
$1,380,000
2021
5 years
Empowering legal actors working to protect global biodiversity
To provide robust legal, scientific, and organizational support to help lawyers in under-resourced regions win legal victories that protect biodiversity, and to build local capacity to protect biodiversity in years to come.
$1,000,000
2021
5 years
control ©
To advance all forms of freedom of communication. This includes defending freedom of expression, information, the press, the arts and the sciences, wherever these rights are constrained by copyright and information laws.
$452,200
2021
3 years
Open Library of Humanities & Janeway
To strengthen open access to scholarly work in the humanities disciplines, allowing everyone the freedom to access academic research.
$276,000
2021
2 years
Opening access to conservation knowledge
To increase the availability and quality of conservation literature online by expanding awareness and knowledge of scholarly communications.
$442,800
2021
3 years
FFI Conservation Resilience Fund
To enable FFI to establish the Conservation Resilience Fund, to help local conservation organisations adopt new operational models to adapt to a post-COVID-19 future.
$2,000,000
2021
3 years
WCS Local Conservation Partners Fund
To establish a WCS Local Conservation Partners Fund to help build long-term capacity of select local partner groups. WCS will direct grants and capacity-building support to partners that have been impacted by COVID-19 and who seek to build more sustainable, resilient organizations.
$2,000,000
2021
3 years
Towards running costs
Towards the theatre's running costs
$100,000
2021
1 year
Earth Investigations Programme
JournalismFund Europe
https://www.journalismfund.eu/news/eu115-million-environmental-investigative-journalism
The Earth Investigations Programme awards grants to support environmental investigative journalism on European affairs inside and outside Europe. The programme supports projects that aim to expose injustices, create pressure on those in power and mobilize action to protect nature and people.
Learn more$13,685,000
2021
6 years
Advancing open access at galleries, libraries, archives, and museums
To help more of the world’s public art galleries, libraries, archives and museums (GLAM institutions) make their collections data and images available under open Creative Commons licences or waivers.
$5,000,000
2021
5 years
To support the Bard core endowment
Towards the core endowment in recognition of the Bard Network's work.
$5,000,000
2021
1 year
Towards work on soil carbon sequestration.
To develop a scientific foundation for agricultural soil carbon credits.
$2,500,000
2021
4 years
Tools to steer academic systems to open research
To provide tools and data which better surface open access research and to help libraries and researchers make better decisions. If successful, this will help to end ‘big deal’ subscription packages and reduce information asymmetry in library-publisher negotiations.
$4,500,000
2021
3 years
Strengthening open access in the USA.
To secure a national open access policy requiring immediate open access to all US federally-funded research outputs; to promote measurable changes in the ways universities and research funders incentivise and reward the open sharing of research outputs; and to catalyze actions to secure academic community control of key research communication infrastructure.
$500,000
2021
3 years
Tools to Advance Research Assessment (TARA)
To accelerate research assessment reform by undertaking analysis and creating tools and resources to help institutions improve research assessment in the United States and Europe.
$1,200,000
2021
3 years
Internationalization of Arches data management platform software
To develop a new software module for the Arches data management platform
$325,000
2021
1 year
The next generation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare
To expand OpenCourseWare access and deliver engaging experiences for the many millions of smartphone-based learners. The project aims to increase OCW’s capacity to produce more rich media; reach more learners and offer more socially relevant content; and to launch new collaborations across the Open Educational Resources (OER) community to advance educational equity.
$100,000
2021
1 year