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 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.
UC Berkeley Library
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2015
1 year
UC Berkeley Library
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2014
1 year
Office of Scholarly Communication
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,267
2016
1 year
University of Cambridge Library
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$103,500
2021
1 year
University of Cambridge Library
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,053
2017
1 year
University of Cambridge Library
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$99,750
2020
1 year
University of Cambridge Library
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$96,314
2019
1 year
University of Cambridge Library
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$90,854
2019
1 year
University of Cambridge Library
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$81,060
2014
1 year
University of Cambridge Library
To promote open access to PhD theses
$77,967
2015
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 support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$2,000,000
2022
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$1,000,000
2026
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$250,000
2025
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$250,000
2024
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$250,000
2023
1 year
Core support
To support free and reliable knowledge projects.
$1,250,000
2011
5 years
Core support
To support free and reliable knowledge projects.
$250,000
2022
1 year
Core support
To support free and reliable knowledge projects.
$250,000
2021
1 year