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.
Core costs of the organisation
To support organisational consolidation and develop a focus on biodiversity.
$2,550,000
2010
4 years
Changing US ocean management
To lobby the US Government on the need for marine spatial planning in national ocean policy.
$500,000
2010
4 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support organisational development.
$450,000
2010
4 years
Baltic Sea Campaign
To enforce existing laws and regulations, to reduce illegal fishing and identify areas in need of protection.
$1,000,000
2010
2 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Collaborative Conservation Research Fund
To support collaborative research among the initiative's partners to address high priority biodiversity conservation issues.
$1,319,458
2009
3 years
Conservation of birds and their habitats
To build the capacity of national Birdlife partners in high-biodiversity countries, to ensure that priority species and habitats are sustainably managed.
$1,500,000
2009
5 years
Conservation Evidence
To help conservation practitioners to make effective decisions by publishing and disseminating evidence-based conservation strategies.
$540,668
2009
6 years
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
To expand the partnership's work in biodiversity rich low- and middle-income countries.
$1,348,479
2009
5 years
Changing US ocean management
To lobby the US Government on the need for marine spatial planning in national ocean policy.
$500,000
2009
2 years
Purchase of grassland in Argentina
To support the establishment of a new reserve in Corrientes province.
$321,000
2008
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
Chief scientific officer's post
To provide advice to the trust and its partners on scientific aspects of wild land conservation and biodiversity management.
$302,420
2008
3 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: executive director's post
To develop and consolidate the initiative.
$1,644,913
2008
6 years
Pumalin Park, Chile
To build a rangers' station.
$379,000
2008
2 years
Patagonia National Park
To build a visitors' centre.
$1,300,000
2008
3 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support organisational consolidation and develop a focus on biodiversity.
$5,250,000
2007
1 year
Core costs of the organisation
To support organisational development.
$1,500,000
2007
1 year
Influencing public policy on climate change
To create the conditions for significant global climate change agreements in 2009-10.
$176,593
2007
1 year
Miriam Rothschild Professorship of Conservation Biology
To endow a Professorship of Conservation Biology.
$6,635,560
2006
5 years
Environmental Leadership and Training Initiative (ELTI)
To train conservation practitioners in tropical Asia and Central America to enable them to take responsibility for local and national conservation, in collaboration with the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute.
$4,832,527
2006
6 years