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.

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Meeting room upgrade project

To provide AV equipment to support hybrid meetings at the Center for Jewish History

$73,500

2021

1 year

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

Crisis Support Fund

To establish an emergency response fund to support their partners on the ground most affected by COVID19.

$1,039,316

2020

1 year

Endangered Landscapes Programme

The Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme gives grants for large-scale restoration projects across Europe’s land and seas. The programme supports projects that will restore extensive areas of terrestrial and marine habitat so that they are resilient and self-sustaining.

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$35,059,365

2020

10 years

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

Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

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

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

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

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 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

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

Nepal Heritage Documentation Project

To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley, and publish them online in a searchable, free database.

$3,006,209

2020

6 years

Palestinian Museum Digital Archive

To digitize endangered, dispersed and inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, videos and ephemeral materials representing the culture and history of Palestine from 1800 to the present and to make them available in an open-access online archive.

$1,900,000

2020

3 years

Conservation Evidence

To help conservation practitioners to make effective decisions by publishing and disseminating evidence-based conservation strategies.

$177,672

2020

1 year

Earth Journalism Network - Biodiversity Media Initiative

To support the capacity-building of local journalists to investigate and report worldwide on the threats to biodiversity and conservation-based solutions.

$750,000

2020

3 years

Forest campaign

To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses, which is vital to combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.

$1,995,000

2020

3 years

Intelligence and action against wildlife trade (ReTTA Phase II)

To strengthen actions to reduce the illegal and unsustainable trade of African wild species to Asia through data gathering, information sharing, engagement and innovative interventions.

$3,000,000

2020

5 years

Towards the COVID19 Solidarity Response Fund

To support the global response to the COVID19 crisis.

$500,000

2020

1 year

Towards running costs

$100,000

2020

1 year

Global Urban Alliance

To establish a global Urban Alliance under the auspices of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The project will develop and promote a standard set of indicators on urban ecosystem health that enable cities to identify challenges and evaluate the effectiveness of their efforts to become greener environments.

$434,700

2020

3 years