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.
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