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 August 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.
Core costs
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2019
1 year
Digitizing the Women of the Book collection and the George Peabody Library collection
To digitize two collections from the Sheridan Libraries Special Collections; the Women of the Book collection and the George Peabody Library’s signature holdings, and make the results freely available online.
$235,000
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2019
1 year
Achieving open access through copyright reform
To support research, publication and advocacy for global copyright reform to provide greater access to academic research.
$165,000
2019
2 years
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2019
1 year
Roundtable on Aligning Incentives for Open Science
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine
https://www8.nationalacademies.org/pa/projectview.aspx?key=51293
To bring together stakeholders from universities, funding agencies, societies, foundations and industry to discuss the effectiveness of current incentives for adopting Open Science practices.
$100,000
2019
2 years
Advancing Open Access at UCLA
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.
$100,000
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
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.
$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