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.
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To improve methods of backlighting palimpsest folios of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, in preparation for their digitization.
$85,000
2009
1 year
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To improve methods of backlighting palimpsest folios of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, in preparation for their digitization.
$35,000
2010
1 year
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To improve methods of backlighting palimpsest folios of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, in preparation for their digitization.
$12,000
2010
1 year
Environmental Funders Network
To support the creation and development of a network of environmental funders in the UK.
$105,378
2012
4 years
Next generation library publishing
To develop new, cost-effective and community-governed open-access publishing tools and services for authors, editors and readers.
$2,200,000
2019
3 years
Publication of Einstein's papers
To preserve the archive of Einstein’s scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and make it freely available online.
$235,940
2006
1 year
Publication of Einstein's Papers
To preserve the archive of Einstein’s scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and make it freely available online.
$45,000
2010
2 years
The Global Gramophone: Early commercial sound recordings around the world
To digitize the shellac discs in the so-called ‘Orient’ catalogue, and to make these audio files freely available online.
$2,541,000
2025
5 years
Core support
To support frontline communities and ally networks defending rights to their lands, livelihoods, and culture in the face of violence, repression, and destructive industries.
$1,210,000
2025
4 years
Soil carbon sequestration
To assess the scientific foundation for agricultural soil carbon credits.
$2,500,000
2021
4 years
Coastal conservation in West Africa
To campaign against large-scale, illegal and undocumented fishing in West African coastal waters.
$450,000
2014
4 years
Coastal conservation in West Africa
To campaign against large-scale, illegal and undocumented fishing in West African coastal waters.
$100,000
2012
2 years
Ocean campaign
To support a campaign to end illegal fishing and protect marine biodiversity.
$1,500,000
2022
5 years
Oceans Campaign
To support a campaign to end illegal fishing and protect marine biodiversity, focussing on West Africa and South-East Asia.
$999,750
2017
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
Protecting biodiversity through law
Scoping grant to explore a regranting programme on protecting biodiversity through law.
$110,000
2024
1 year
Climate change action
To improve climate change policy and campaign against coal in the UK and Germany.
$5,000,000
2008
5 years
Core support
To help the foundation and its work to build a greener and more democratic Europe.
$1,018,754
2018
1 year
EU Nature Restoration Law
To provide support to environmental organizations, citizen groups and grassroots movements to strengthen the EU’s negotiation of the Nature Restoration Law.
$1,100,000
2023
1 year
European nature law
To support sound implementation of nature legislation in Europe, with a focus on forest resilience.
$2,754,000
2025
2.5 years