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.

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Culture

Grant recipient

Endowment to Department of History

To support the Millennium Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund and establish the Endowed History Department Chair and the History Department Chair Quasi-Endowment Fund.

$10,000,000

2012

5 years

Endowment to Department of History

To support the establishment and ongoing work of the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History, the Joyce Oldham Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World, the Hans Rogger International Student Fund in History, the Millennium Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund and the Dean of Social Sciences Fund for Faculty Support in History in the College of Letters and Science.

$5,000,000

2005

5 years

International Digital Ephemera Project

To digitize, preserve and provide free online access to endangered modern printed and digital ephemera.

$3,414,109

2011

7 years

Mosfell Archaeological Project

To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies and Vikingaminjar ehf.

$500,000

2007

5 years

Mosfell Archaeological Project

To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies and Vikingaminjar ehf.

$400,000

2011

3 years

Mosfell Archaeological Project

To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies and Vikingaminjar ehf.

$100,000

2011

2 years

Sinai Library Digitization Project

To digitize more of the remaining manuscripts of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, including newly discovered palimpsests, and make the results freely available online.

$2,014,000

2022

3 years

Sinai Palimpsest Project open access online publication

To make multispectral images of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, freely available online.

$200,000

2014

2 years

The Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History

To endow the Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History at UCLA.

$5,000,000

2014

1 year

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

Documentation of Kalmyk heritage

To document the endangered cultural heritage of the Kalmyks and Oirats and make the records freely available online.

$1,207,965

2014

5 years

Mapping Africa's Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments

$7,125,000

2024

5 years

Mapping the Archaeological Heritage of South Asia

To undertake the large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results freely available online.

$5,750,000

2024

5 years

Mapping Africa's endangered sites and monuments

To carry out large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results freely available online.

$4,249,600

2019

3 years

Mapping archaeological heritage in South Asia

To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results freely available online.

$2,304,000

2019

3 years

Documenting Mandaean rituals and religious traditions

To document the rituals and priestly knowledge of the Mandaeans and to make the records freely available online.

$348,556

2014

3 years

Digitization of manuscripts in South-East Asia

To fund large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia and make these freely available online.

$2,173,500

2017

5 years

Digitization of Manuscripts in Southeast Asia

To support large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia and make these freely available online.

$2,260,850

2025

5 years

DiPiKA - Digitization and Preservation of Kerala Archives

To survey and digitize some of the most important collections of palm-leaf manuscripts in the Thrissur and Ernakulam districts in Kerala, India in both institutional and family collections and to make the results freely available online.

$823,939

2022

5 years

Maldives Heritage Survey

To document the cultural heritage of the Maldives and make the data freely available online.

$620,000

2018

2 years