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.
Conservation Evidence
To help conservation practitioners to make effective decisions by publishing and disseminating evidence-based conservation strategies.
$138,000
2021
1 year
Desert of the Mamluks documentation project
Towards the documentation of endangered built heritage and oral traditions in the ‘Desert of the Mamluks’, part of Cairo’s ‘City of the Dead’ necropolis.
$79,730
2021
1 year
Towards making materials on Danish Jewish in World War II available to wider audiences
Network for the Study of Nazism and the Holocaust
https://www.sdu.dk/da/om_sdu/institutter_centre/ih/forskning/forskningsnetvaerk/nnhs
To translate a website and exhibits on Danish Jews deportees to Theresienstadt into Czech, English, German and Swedish.
$26,100
2021
1 year
European Open Rivers Programme
The Open Rivers Programme gives grants for work to remove redundant dams, weirs and other river barriers across Europe, so that rivers can flow naturally and biodiversity can flourish.
Learn more$50,575,000
2021
6 years
Oceans 5 Partnership
Oceans 5 gives grants to help stop overfishing, establish marine protected areas, and constrain offshore oil and gas development. The programme supports projects that provide lasting benefits to coastal communities and the world’s oceans.
Learn more$6,000,000
2021
3 years
Pesticide Free Towns
Supporting the pesticide free towns campaign
$110,400
2021
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
Towards the core Wikimedia Endowment
$1,000,000
2021
1 year
Borderland Foundation core costs
Towards supporting Borderland (Fundacja Pogranicze) and its programmes.
$100,000
2021
4 years
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
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
Towards the core Wikimedia Endowment
$1,000,000
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