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.
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$5,000,000
2017
1 year
Core costs of the organisation
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,053
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open acces
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2017
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2017
1 year
Digitizing MIT Press backlist titles
To digitize 1,500 MIT Press titles and make them freely available online.
$50,000
2017
1 year
Core funding for organization
To support Public.Resource.Org’s work to make legal statutes and technical and safety standards freely available online.
$300,000
2016
3 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2016
1 year
Open Syllabus Project
To support the Open Syllabus Project in building the first large-scale online database of titles of works used in millions of university course syllabi.
$220,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2016
1 year
Supporting the Office of Scholarly Communication
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,267
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2016
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote 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 promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2015
1 year
