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.
Developing non-destructive methods to read texts in mummy cartonnages
To research non-destructive digital imaging technology to read texts on papyri in mummy cartonnages and make the results freely available online.
$83,000
2015
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
Operating and acquisition costs
To acquire, preserve, catalogue and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
$5,000,000
2014
5 years
Documentation of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa.
To document endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and make the data freely available online.
$1,964,055
2014
3 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
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
History of Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism
To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan’s multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.
$222,600
2014
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
Preserving Bhutan's cultural heritage
To document the oral traditions of Bhutan and make the records freely available online.
$1,422,590
2013
5 years
National Anthropological Archives
To digitize a collection of ethnographic sound recordings and associated manuscripts and make it freely available online.
$1,000,000
2013
3 years
Historical Ice Core Project
Harvard University (Department of History)
http://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/historical-ice-core-heart-europe
To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps and make the results freely available online.
$525,000
2013
4 years
College fellows fund
To support Harvard College Fellows Program.
$10,000,000
2012
4 years
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
TARA image project
To preserve the Trust for African Rock Art’s (TARA) photographic archive and make it freely available online.
$1,345,590
2012
6 years
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 African rock art images and make it freely available online.
$260,000
2012
1 year
Exploration and conservation of African rock art
To provide core support to help TARA’s mission to survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.
$150,000
2012
0 years
Institute for the Preservation of Cultural Heritage
To build a new cultural heritage conservation and digitization centre at Yale University.
$25,000,000
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
Digitization of manuscripts in the Middle East and Africa
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and to make them freely available online.
$3,000,000
2011
5 years
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To digitize palimpsests in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai and make the results freely available online.
$2,100,000
2011
5 years