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 March 2025). 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.
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2019
1 year
Expanding Open Access Initiatives at Yale University Library
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2019
1 year
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$96,314
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$90,854
2019
1 year
Locking the higher education data market “open” for competition
To support academic community control of key research communication infrastructure.
$75,000
2019
1 year
A framework to make more books freely available online
To develop technology, policies and partnerships that will help to make more scholarly books freely available for researchers online.
$5,000,000
2018
3 years
Digitizing historical Swedish newspapers
To digitize Swedish newspapers that are out of copyright (1645-1906) and make them freely available online.
$3,600,000
2018
4 years
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$3,500,000
2018
1 year
Enhancing Unlocked University Press Books
To create high quality EPUB files of scanned university press books, to enhance the reader experience.
$2,000,000
2018
2 years
Core funding
To support Public.Resource.Org’s work to make legal statutes and technical and safety standards freely available online.
$1,500,000
2018
3 years
Arabic Collections Online
To help digitize 23,000 books from NYU Library’s Arabic collections and make them freely available online.
$1,340,000
2018
3 years
Liberating species descriptions from in-copyright journal articles
To support work to extract taxonomic data from scientific publications and make them findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), and to promote the resulting repository as the standard in the taxonomic community.
$1,298,000
2018
3 years
Unlocking University Press Books
To digitize more than 15,000 volumes of published monographs from university libraries and make them available via Internet Archive’s controlled digital lending platform.
$1,003,300
2018
4 years
Search engine for open access scholarly content
To build and support a new, non-profit free search engine that will make it easy for the public to access peer-reviewed literature.
$850,000
2018
2 years
Commons Collaborative Archive and Library
To develop tools for making openly-licensed content easier to find and use.
$800,000
2018
2 years
Developing a new sustainable membership model
To develop training resources for academic authors who want to publish open access.
$500,000
2018
2 years
Open Access Button
To develop free, open-source tools to help libraries find open-access copies of publications.
$422,000
2018
2 years
The Freedom of Information Archive at History Lab
To provide free online access to declassified government information and to make the content easier for users to find.
$407,000
2018
2 years
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2018
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2018
1 year