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.
Halcyon Land & Sea
To work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.
$5,000,000
2003
1 year
Halcyon Land & Sea
To work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.
$800,000
2011
1 year
Halcyon Land & Sea fund
To work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.
$5,000,000
2006
6 years
Halcyon Marine Initiative
To work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich marine habitats.
$5,000,000
2011
4 years
Halcyon Marine Initiative
To work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich marine habitats.
$3,750,000
2015
4 years
Halcyon Programmes and core institutional support
To provide core support for Fauna & Flora and support its work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.
$25,960,684
2017
6 years
Support for the Environmental Governance Programme
To support the Forest Peoples Programme’s environmental governance programme to protect terrestrial biodiversity.
$1,380,000
2021
5 years
To support people and National Parks impacted by the war in Ukraine.
To support a collaboration between Frankfurt Zoological Society and Foundation Conservation Carpathia to provide equipment and supplies for people in Ukraine’s national parks.
$297,500
2022
1 year
To support people and National Parks impacted by the war in Ukraine.
Frankfurt Zoological Society
https://fzs.org/en/support/emergency-support-for-protected-areas-in-the-carpathians/
To support a collaboration between Frankfurt Zoological Society and Foundation Conservation Carpathia to provide equipment and supplies for people in Ukraine’s national parks.
$297,500
2022
1 year
control ©
To advance all forms of freedom of communication, wherever these are unduly constrained by copyright and information laws.
$452,200
2021
3 years
Internationalization of Arches data management platform software
To develop a new software module for the Arches data management platform.
$325,000
2021
1 year
Core support to Global Canopy
To provide Global Canopy with core support to target the market forces destroying nature.
$1,725,000
2022
4 years
Combating illegal and unsustainable logging in tropical forests
To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate-critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses. This is vital for combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.
$668,449
2016
3 years
Forest campaign
To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate-critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses. This is vital for combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.
$1,995,000
2020
3 years
Preserving Climate-Critical Rainforests
To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate-critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses. This is vital for combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.
$3,795,000
2023
5 years
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2019
1 year
Advancing Open Access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2018
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2017
1 year