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.

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Strategic

Grant recipient

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2015

1 year

Berkman Center for Internet and Society

To promote open access at universities and other academic institutions.

$1,000,000

2011

4 years

College fellows fund

To support Harvard College Fellows Program.

$10,000,000

2012

4 years

Harvard Library: collection and preservation services

To catalogue and digitize documents on Harvard’s history, and to run the Library Lab programme to create better digital services for students and faculty.

$5,000,000

2009

6 years

Harvard Library: global fund for open collections

To digitize key collections and make them freely available online.

$5,000,000

2004

5 years

Supporting Open Access with Harvard Library

To improve acquisition policies and open access to the library’s collections.

$9,000,000

2011

5 years

Historic Ice Core

To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps and make the results freely available online.

$570,000

2019

3 years

Historical Ice Core Project

To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps and make the results freely available online.

$525,000

2013

4 years

Historical Ice Core Project

To document and interpret historical environmental data captured in an ice core from a glacier in the Alps and make the results freely available online.

$495,000

2016

3 years

Nepal cultural heritage documentation project

To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley and make the resulting material freely available online.

$945,748

2018

2 years

Nepal Heritage Documentation Project

To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley and make the resulting materials freely available online.

$3,006,209

2020

6 years

Desert of the Mamluks documentation project

To document endangered built heritage and oral traditions in the ‘Desert of the Mamluks’ in Cairo’s ‘City of the Dead’ necropolis, and make the resulting materials freely available online.

$79,730

2021

1 year

Digitization of manuscripts in Africa and Asia

To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and make them freely available online.

$5,492,813

2021

5 years

Digitization of manuscripts in the Middle East and Africa

To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and to make them freely available online.

$4,000,000

2016

5 years

Digitization of manuscripts in the Middle East and Africa

To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and to make them freely available online.

$3,000,000

2011

5 years

3D-scanning of heritage sites in Syria and Iraq

To create 3D scans of monuments in Syria and to make the results freely available online.

$196,490

2016

1 year

Reforms to Deliver the Right to Culture, Learning and Research through Libraries

To promote copyright law reform and regulation at EU and national level to enable libraries to facilitate greater access to and use of copyrighted works for cultural, educational and research purposes.

$3,630,000

2020

3 years

The Knowledge Rights 21 Programme (phase II)

To promote copyright law reform and regulation at EU and national level to enable libraries to facilitate greater access to and use of copyrighted works for cultural, educational and research purposes.

$6,050,000

2024

5 years

Conservation of Freshwater Biodiversity in Key River Ecosystems

To support International Rivers’ work to influence how rivers are governed, protected in law and valued to help ensure our rivers continue to support diverse habitats and wildlife.

$1,250,000

2018

5 years

Global Urban Alliance

To establish a global alliance to develop and promote a standard set of indicators on urban ecosystem health that enable cities to identify the challenges of becoming greener environments and evaluate their efforts to do so.

$434,700

2020

3 years