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.
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
The Endangered Material Knowledge Programme gives grants to document traditional skills and practices used in making or using things. It supports projects that document practices and skills that are being lost as mass-produced objects replace handmade items. The digitized records are available for free online.
Learn more$11,075,680
2020
8 years
Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme
Oxford Brookes University
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/projects/endangered-wooden-architecture-programme/
The Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme gives grants to document traditional practices of creating and maintaining wooden buildings. The programme makes permanent records of these structures and practices and makes them freely available online.
Learn more$6,057,000
2020
5 years
Digitizing historical Swedish newspapers II
To complete the digitization of the National Library of Sweden’s (NLS) holdings of all Swedish historical newspapers up to 1906.
$1,800,000
2020
2 years
Advancing open access
To help support general management, staff, IT equipment and training, fundraising and governance.
$250,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
Towards the publication of open access monographs, and to further open access initiatives by membership and participation in other organizations advancing open access.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To build responsible access workflows for copyright and information policy. This grant ensures that Berkeley can continue helping scholars to use, create, and publish scholarship in ways that promote dissemination, accessibility, and impact.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
$200,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
$99,750
2020
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum.
Towards the costs of running the Wende Museum.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Strategic influence on digital policy making in the EU
To set up and support a strategic advocacy organisation that will increase the capacity of the open movement to strategically influence digital policy making in the European Union.
$1,177,050
2020
4 years
Towards the Theory of the Foundation learning collaborative
To support the development of the field of knowledge about foundations as institutions.
$50,000
2020
2 years
Core costs
Unrestricted funding to help support general management, staff, IT equipment and training, fundraising and governance.
$250,000
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
$200,000
2019
1 year
Expanding Open Access Initiatives at Yale University Library
Advancing Open Access in a library-led manner
$100,000
2019
1 year
Improving Biodiversity
Towards the restoration of the historic lake, construction of the new lake, and other work that improves the biodiversity of the garden.
$642,096
2019
1 year
Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa
To document archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery.
$4,176,159
2019
5 years
Mapping Africa's endangered sites and monuments
To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results available online through an open-access database.
$4,249,600
2019
3 years
Mapping archaeological heritage in South Asia
To undertake large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results available online through an open-access database.
$2,304,000
2019
3 years