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 March 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.
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access to PhD theses
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$77,967
2015
1 year
Support for the University of California Berkeley Library
Core support for the University of California Berkeley Library.
$5,000,000
2014
2 years
Open Access Initiative
National Library of Israel
http://web.nli.org.il/sites/NLI/English/digitallibrary/time_journey/Pages/default.aspx
To establish the library as a model for open access.
$300,000
2014
1 year
Core costs
To support Public.Resource.Org’s work to make legal statutes and technical and safety standards freely available online.
$200,000
2014
2 years
Wikipedia Zero
To expand Wikipedia Zero, which gives free, mobile access to Wikipedia to people who cannot afford mobile data costs.
$100,000
2014
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2014
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2014
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2014
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2014
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$81,060
2014
1 year
Authors Alliance
To create a nonprofit organization (the Authors Alliance) to represent the interests of academics and other authors whose primary motivation is to disseminate knowledge.
$250,000
2013
1 year
Supporting Open Access with Harvard Library
To improve acquisition policies and open access to the library’s collections.
$9,000,000
2011
5 years
Digital Public Library of America
To develop a working prototype of a digital library platform.
$2,500,000
2011
3 years
Core costs of the organisation
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$1,250,000
2011
5 years
Berkman Center for Internet and Society
To promote open access at universities and other academic institutions.
$1,000,000
2011
4 years
Improving digital preservation
To improve and promote best practices for the long-term preservation of materials stored on tape and disk.
$250,000
2011
2 years