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 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.
Digitization of manuscripts in Africa and Asia
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and make them freely available online.
$5,492,813
2021
5 years
Protected Planet
Towards the core costs of the Protected Planet platform
$5,000,000
2021
5 years
To support the Bard core endowment
Towards the core endowment in recognition of the Bard Network’s work.
$5,000,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access at galleries, libraries, archives, and museums
To help more of the world’s public art galleries, libraries, archives and museums make their collections data and images freely available under Creative Commons licences or waivers.
$5,000,000
2021
5 years
Tools to steer academic systems to open research
To provide tools and data which make open-access research easier to find and use and to help libraries and researchers make better decisions.
$4,500,000
2021
3 years
Invest in open infrastructure
To improve funding and resourcing for open technology and systems which underpin access to scholarly research.
$3,470,000
2021
3 years
Towards work on soil carbon sequestration.
To assess the scientific foundation for agricultural soil carbon credits.
$2,500,000
2021
4 years
To support fundraising activities for the Center for Jewish History.
To provide core support for the salary of the Chief Development Officer and associated costs.
$2,000,000
2021
1 year
FFI Conservation Resilience Fund
To help local conservation organizations adopt new operational models to adapt to a post-COVID-19 future.
$2,000,000
2021
3 years
WCS Local Conservation Partners Fund
To help local conservation organizations adopt new operational and business models to adapt to a post-COVID-19 future.
$2,000,000
2021
3 years
Soviet Jewry project
Towards preserving, documenting, and providing access to historical materials relating to Soviet Jewry, the Refusenik movement and the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora.
$1,500,000
2021
3 years
Support for the Environmental Governance Programme
To support the Forest Peoples Programme’s environmental governance programme to protect terrestrial biodiversity.
$1,380,000
2021
5 years
Tools to Advance Research Assessment (TARA)
To accelerate research assessment reform by undertaking analysis and creating tools and resources to help institutions in the United States and Europe.
$1,200,000
2021
3 years
To support the Wildlife Justice Commission’s (WJC’s) core operations.
To support WJC’s mission to support the investigation and prosecution of high-level wildlife crime cases.
$1,190,000
2021
5 years
Empowering legal actors working to protect global biodiversity
To help lawyers in under-resourced regions win legal victories that protect biodiversity and build local capacity to protect biodiversity in years to come.
$1,000,000
2021
5 years
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$1,000,000
2021
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$1,000,000
2021
1 year
The Age of Extinction series
To support the Age of Extinction series, a reporting project that aims to draw attention to the global biodiversity crisis.
$900,000
2021
3 years
Strengthening open access in the USA.
To support policy and advocacy work to improve open access to research outputs in the United States and support academic community control of key research communication infrastructure.
$500,000
2021
3 years
Inventory of Maritime Archaeology in Pakistan
Pilot project to create an inventory of maritime archaeological resources in Pakistan and make the results freely available online.
$495,354
2021
2 years