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.
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
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
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.
Learn more$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
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
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
Towards the theatre's running costs.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Global Urban Alliance
International Union for Conservation of Nature
https://iucn.org/news/secretariat/201809/iucn-launches-global-alliance-greener-cities
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