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.

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Culture

Grant recipient

Publication of African rock art image collection

To work with the British Museum to preserve, curate and share a photographic archive of more than 20,000 images and make it available for free online.

$260,000

2012

1 year

TARA image project

To preserve and curate the Trust for African Rock Art's (TARA) photographic archive of more than 20,000 images, and make it available for free online.

$1,345,590

2012

6 years

Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage

To build a new cultural conservation and digitization centre at Yale University.

$25,000,000

2011

5 years

Digitizing Israeli Ephemera

To collect, digitize and preserve printed ephemera from the early history of modern Israel and make them available for free online.

$1,991,702

2011

4 years

Mosfell Archaeological Project

To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with UCLA and Vikingaminjar ehf.

$100,000

2011

3 years

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

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.

$400,000

2011

3 years

Sinai Palimpsest Project

To digitize palimpsests in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai, using multispectral photography.

$2,100,000

2011

5 years

Digitization of manuscripts in the Middle East and Africa

To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and India and to make them available for free online.

$3,000,000

2011

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

Impact assessment of digitised collections

To research and test the best methods of assessing the impact of digitised collections.

$143,000

2011

1 year

Mosfell Archaeological Project

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

$100,000

2011

2 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

Publication of Einstein's Papers

To preserve the archive of Einstein's scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and to make it available for free online.

$45,000

2010

2 years

Sinai Palimpsest Project

To support preparation for the digitization of palimpsest manuscripts in the Library of St Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.

$12,000

2010

1 year

Dead Sea Scrolls online database

To develop resources related to the Dead Sea Scrolls including bibliography, transcriptions of the text, translations and commentaries from experts and make them available for free online.

$1,000,000

2010

4 years

Sinai Palimpsest Project

To develop an innovative light source to backlight the palimpsest folios of manuscripts with visible and infra-red light.

$35,000

2010

1 year

Sinai Palimpsest Project

To survey, digitize and develop an innovative light source to backlight palimpsest manuscripts in the library of St. Catherine's Monastery.

$85,000

2009

1 year

Operating and acquisition costs

To preserve, catalogue and digitise Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

$5,000,000

2009

4 years

UCLA Library digitization

To digitize vulnerable collections in UCLA's library and make them available for free online; to digitize ephemera through the open-access Collecting Los Angeles project.

$5,000,000

2009

5 years