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.

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Culture

Grant recipient

Survey of digital resources in African universities

To assess the need for, and improve engagement with, digital resources in African universities.

$105,798

2009

1 year

Oral History of British Science

To develop an online, open access, oral history archive for the study of 20th-century science in Britain. In 2015, the project's 'Voices of Science' web resource won the Royal Historical Society's Public History Prize for Web and Digital (www.bl.uk/voicesofscience).

$793,371

2009

5 years

Exploration and conservation of African rock art

To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

$495,870

2009

3 years

Support to Yale University Library

To catalogue and digitize collections of primary materials, especially those in non-Roman alphabets without previous transcriptions, and to make them available for free online.

$5,000,000

2009

5 years

Exploration and conservation of African rock art

To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

$491,425

2008

2 years

Centre for Primary Research

To increase access to special library collections and train graduate students and scholars in collections management.

$500,000

2008

5 years

History of Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism (Toledot Torat Hasod Ha'ivrit)

To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan’s multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism.

$150,000

2008

3 years

Operating and acquisition costs

To preserve, catalogue and digitise Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

$275,000

2008

3 years

Digital library for the study of Africa

To build an online library of scholarly resources and make it available for free online to users from African institutions

$2,500,000

2007

1 year

Mosfell Archaeological Project

To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies and Vikingaminjar ehf.

$500,000

2007

5 years

Exploration and conservation of African rock art

To survey, document and conserve rock art sites across Africa.

$244,988

2007

1 year

Reading and Writing Gallery

To showcase the origins and development of reading and writing across cultures, from the fourth century BC to the printing press.

$1,747,700

2006

1 year

Endowment to Department of History

To establish: the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History; the Joyce Oldham Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World; the Hans Rogger International Student Fund in History; the Millennium Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund; and, the Dean of Social Sciences Fund for Faculty Support in History in the Cllege of Letters and Science.

$5,000,000

2005

5 years

Operating and acquisition costs

To preserve, catalogue and digitise Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

$991,500

2005

2 years

History of Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism (Toledot Torat Hasod Ha'ivrit)

To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan's multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.

$150,000

2005

3 years

Endangered Archives Programme

The Endangered Archives Programme gives grants to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration. The programme supports projects that cover rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century. All of the digitized materials are freely available online.

$16,960,153

2004

13 years

Operating and acquisition costs

To preserve, catalogue and digitise Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

$1,867,100

2004

1 year

Exhibition of Islamic art

To exhibit calligraphy, textiles, jewels, metalwork, ceramics and paintings from the 9th to 19th centuries.

$93,355

2004

2 years

Endangered Languages Documentation Programme

The Endangered Languages Documentation Programme gives grants to linguists and community members to document languages around the world that are at risk of falling silent. The programme makes the digital documentation of these languages freely available online.

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$33,851,813

2002

15 years

Courtauld Endowment Fund

To preserve the Institute’s academic autonomy.

$7,880,000

2002

5 years