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.
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
Towards the core Wikimedia Endowment
$1,000,000
2021
1 year
To support fundraising activities for the Center for Jewish History.
To support the salary of the Chief Development Officer and associated costs
$2,000,000
2021
1 year
Protected Planet
Towards the core costs of the Protected Planet platform
$5,000,000
2021
5 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
Advancing open access
$100,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
Towards the publication of open access monographs, and to further open access initiatives by membership and participation in other organizations advancing open access.
$100,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
To help support general management, staff, IT equipment and training, fundraising and governance.
$250,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
Towards advancing open access
$103,500
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
$200,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
$100,000
2021
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum
Towards the costs of running the Wende Museum
$100,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
To build responsible access workflows for copyright and information policy. This grant ensures that Berkeley can continue helping scholars to use, create, and publish scholarship in ways that promote dissemination, accessibility, and impact.
$100,000
2021
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
Towards the core Wikimedia Endowment
$1,000,000
2021
1 year
Global Urban Alliance
International Union for Conservation of Nature
https://iucn.org/news/secretariat/201809/iucn-launches-global-alliance-greener-cities
To establish a global Urban Alliance under the auspices of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The project will develop and promote a standard set of indicators on urban ecosystem health that enable cities to identify challenges and evaluate the effectiveness of their efforts to become greener environments.
$434,700
2020
3 years
Intelligence and action against wildlife trade (ReTTA Phase II)
To strengthen actions to reduce the illegal and unsustainable trade of African wild species to Asia through data gathering, information sharing, engagement and innovative interventions.
$3,000,000
2020
5 years
Forest campaign
To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses, which is vital to combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.
$1,995,000
2020
3 years
Earth Journalism Network - Biodiversity Media Initiative
To support the capacity-building of local journalists to investigate and report worldwide on the threats to biodiversity and conservation-based solutions.
$750,000
2020
3 years
Conservation Evidence
To help conservation practitioners to make effective decisions by publishing and disseminating evidence-based conservation strategies.
$177,672
2020
1 year
Palestinian Museum Digital Archive
To digitize endangered, dispersed and inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, videos and ephemeral materials representing the culture and history of Palestine from 1800 to the present and to make them available in an open-access online archive.
$1,900,000
2020
3 years
Nepal Heritage Documentation Project
To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley, and publish them online in a searchable, free database.
$3,006,209
2020
6 years