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 February 2026). 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.
Digitizing Israeli Ephemera
To collect, digitize and preserve printed ephemera from the early history of modern Israel and make them freely available online.
$1,991,702
2011
4 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Collaborative Conservation Research Fund
To support collaborative research among the Cambridge Conservation Initiative partners.
$1,500,000
2011
5 years
Cambridge Conservation Initiative: Masters in Conservation Leadership
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge MPhil in Conservation Leadership.
$1,400,000
2011
5 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$1,250,000
2011
5 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support the Institute’s work to secure lasting protections for marine habitats.
$1,050,000
2011
3 years
Berkman Center for Internet and Society
To promote open access at universities and other academic institutions.
$1,000,000
2011
4 years
Halcyon Land & Sea
To work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.
$800,000
2011
1 year
Miriam Rothschild Travel Bursary Programme
To enable students from biodiversity-rich, cash-poor countries to participate in the Cambridge Student Conference on Conservation Science.
$500,000
2011
5 years
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.
$400,000
2011
3 years
EU Common Fisheries Policy reform
To develop an effective, enforceable framework for sustainable fisheries management that helps to protect biodiversity in the oceans.
$250,000
2011
2 years
Improving digital preservation
To improve and promote best practices for the long-term preservation of materials stored on tape and disk.
$250,000
2011
2 years
Whitley Awards
To support the careers of Whitley Award winners.
$150,000
2011
1 year
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
2011
3 years
Impact assessment of digitised collections
To research methods of assessing the impact of digitized collections.
$143,000
2011
1 year
Mosfell Archaeological Project
To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with UCLA and Vikingaminjar ehf.
$100,000
2011
3 years
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.
$100,000
2011
2 years
Mosfell Archaeological Project
To excavate and research a Viking-age archaeological site in western Iceland, in partnership with UCLA and the Institute for Viking and North Atlantic Studies.
$100,000
2011
2 years
College fellows fund
To support Harvard College Fellows Program.
$10,000,000
2012
4 years
Endowment to Department of History
To support the Millennium Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund and establish the Endowed History Department Chair and the History Department Chair Quasi-Endowment Fund.
$10,000,000
2012
5 years
TARA image project
To preserve the Trust for African Rock Art’s (TARA) photographic archive and make it freely available online.
$1,345,590
2012
6 years