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.
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$200,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2017
1 year
Core costs of the organisation
To give free access to educational resources.
$250,000
2017
1 year
Core costs of the organisation
To give free access to educational resources.
$250,000
2016
1 year
Core funding for organization
To continue support for Public.Resource.Org's work, making legal statutes and technical and safety standards mandated by law available online for free.
$300,000
2016
3 years
Open Syllabus Project
To support the Open Syllabus Project in building the first large-scale online database of titles of works listed in university course syllabi.
$220,000
2016
1 year
Supporting the Office of Scholarly Communication
This support the Office of Scholarly Communications in furthering open access to research.
$100,267
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$200,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2016
1 year
Legal tools for open access to academic publications
To develop legal tools for open access to academic publications
$451,782
2015
3 years
Advancing open access to PhD theses
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials. Part of the funds went towards digitizing 1,400 PhD theses from microfilm, to make them more easily available online.
$77,967
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$200,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2015
1 year
Support for the University of California Berkeley Library
$5,000,000
2014
2 years