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 August 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.
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$81,060
2014
1 year
Advancing open access to PhD theses
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$77,967
2015
1 year
Supporting the Office of Scholarly Communication
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,267
2016
1 year
The Hyku Institutional Repository platform
To improve the Hyku Institutional Repository platform to drive the growth of ‘green’ open access to research publications through institutional repositories.
$1,000,000
2019
2 years
Growing the Wikidata and Wikibase contributor base
To support technical improvements around lexicographical data and the globalization of the contributor base for Wikibase.
$979,132
2019
3 years
Towards the Wikimedia endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$2,000,000
2022
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$250,000
2024
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$250,000
2023
1 year
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
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$3,500,000
2018
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$1,000,000
2021
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$1,000,000
2021
1 year
Advancing Open Access
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2022
1 year
Advancing open access
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
To help support general management, staff, IT equipment and training, fundraising, and governance.
$250,000
2020
1 year
Core costs
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2019
1 year
Core costs
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2019
1 year
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 work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2017
1 year
Core costs of the organisation
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2016
1 year