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.
History of Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism
To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan's multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.
$70,000
2020
2 years
Maritime Asia Heritage Survey
To document endangered heritage sites, inland and coastal, in the region from the Cham coast of Vietnam, through Indonesia, Brunei, and Sri Lanka to the Maldives.
$6,253,809
2020
5 years
Core funding
To enable Public.Resource.Org to expand its work in three key areas: edicts of government, text and data mining and access to knowledge.
$5,000,000
2020
5 years
OA.Works
To support the Open Access Button in three key areas: to meet proven demand for tools that give libraries leverage in big deals; to compete with for-profit access tools; and to lower the cost of making papers open access.
$1,870,000
2020
4 years
Core costs
To enable Open Syllabus to fully explore its potential to support open learning, curricular design, student mobility, research on fields and intellectual history, and other aspects of higher education.
$1,500,000
2020
3 years
Mongolia Heritage Sites Survey
To create a publicly accessible database of endangered archaeological heritage in Mongolia using satellite imagery and on-the-ground survey.
$2,423,967
2020
5 years
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
American University Washington College of Law
https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/pijip/
The project will produce high impact research, provide training to a global network of change makers, and connect a global expert network to a global community of researchers, libraries, museums, archives and digital rights activists active in international copyright policy making.
$3,800,000
2020
3 years
Crisis Support Fund
Fauna & Flora International
http://cms.fauna-flora.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2020_FFI_Partner-Crisis-Support-Fund.pdf
To establish an emergency response fund to support their partners on the ground most affected by COVID19.
$1,039,316
2020
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum.
Towards the costs of running the Wende Museum.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
$99,750
2020
1 year
Reforms to Deliver the Right to Culture, Learning and Research through Libraries
To bring reforms to copyright law and regulation that enable libraries to provide greater possibilities to access and use of copyrighted works. To promote reform at the European and national levels, and provide valuable examples for the rest of the world
$3,630,000
2020
3 years
Strategic influence on digital policy making in the EU
To set up and support a strategic advocacy organisation that will increase the capacity of the open movement to strategically influence digital policy making in the European Union.
$1,177,050
2020
4 years
Advancing open access
$200,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To build responsible access workflows for copyright and information policy. This grant ensures that Berkeley can continue helping scholars to use, create, and publish scholarship in ways that promote dissemination, accessibility, and impact.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
Towards the publication of open access monographs, and to further open access initiatives by membership and participation in other organizations advancing open access.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To help support general management, staff, IT equipment and training, fundraising and governance.
$250,000
2020
1 year
Digitizing historical Swedish newspapers II
To complete the digitization of the National Library of Sweden’s (NLS) holdings of all Swedish historical newspapers up to 1906.
$1,800,000
2020
2 years
Acquisition of six properties in Argentina and Chile
To acquire properties of strategic value in Argentina and Chile to expand existing park areas, rewild degraded landscapes, and advance biodiversity conservation.
$15,100,000
2019
5 years