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 March 2025). 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.
Whitley Awards
To support the careers of Whitley Award winners.
$150,000
2011
1 year
Core costs of the organisation
To support organizational consolidation and develop a focus on protecting and supporting biodiversity.
$2,550,000
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
Living Landscape Scheme
To create large conservation areas connected by wildlife corridors to protect biodiversity, in collaboration with Sussex Wildlife Trust.
$500,000
2010
5 years
Living Landscape Scheme
To create large conservation areas connected by wildlife corridors to protect biodiversity, in collaboration with Kent Wildlife Trust.
$500,000
2010
5 years
Patagonia National Park
To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing ecologically important land next to Patagonia Park in Chile.
$500,000
2010
1 year
Changing US ocean management
To support work to improve marine spatial planning (co-ordinated protection of the oceans) in US Government ocean policy.
$500,000
2010
4 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support the Institute’s work to secure lasting protections for marine habitats.
$450,000
2010
4 years
Conservation of birds and their habitats
To support BirdLife partners in high-biodiversity countries and to help them protect priority species and habitats.
$1,500,000
2009
5 years
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership
To collect seeds and build in-country conservation capacity in biodiverse hotspots experiencing rapid and drastic land use changes.
$1,348,479
2009
5 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Collaborative Conservation Research Fund
To support collaborative research among the Cambridge Conservation Initiative partners.
$1,319,458
2009
3 years
Conservation Evidence
To publish and make widely available evidence-based conservation strategies to help conservation practitioners make effective decisions.
$540,668
2009
6 years
Changing US ocean management
To support work to improve marine spatial planning (co-ordinated protection of the oceans) in US Government ocean policy.
$500,000
2009
2 years
Climate change action
To improve climate change policy and campaign against coal in the UK and Germany.
$5,000,000
2008
5 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: executive director's post
To support the leadership of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.
$1,644,913
2008
6 years
Patagonia National Park
To build a visitor centre in Patagonia Park in Chile.
$1,300,000
2008
3 years
Pumalin Park, Chile
To build a rangers’ station in Pumalin Park in Chile.
$379,000
2008
2 years
Purchase of grassland in Argentina
To purchase land and establish a new grassland reserve in Corrientes province, Argentina.
$321,000
2008
1 year
Chief scientific officer's post
To provide advice to the Trust and its partners on wild land conservation and biodiversity management.
$302,420
2008
3 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support organizational consolidation and develop a focus on protecting and supporting biodiversity.
$5,250,000
2007
1 year