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.
Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa
To document endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and make the data freely available online.
$4,176,159
2019
5 years
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership – Threatened Biodiversity Hotspots Programme
To collect seeds and build in-country conservation capacity in biodiverse hotspots experiencing rapid and drastic land use changes.
$3,250,980
2019
5 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 freely available online.
$2,304,000
2019
3 years
Next generation library publishing
To develop new, cost-effective and community-governed open-access publishing tools and services for authors, editors and readers.
$2,200,000
2019
3 years
Turning Wikipedia references blue
To digitize and make available online 100,000 books that are cited in Wikipedia.
$2,000,000
2019
1 year
Advancing Rewilding in Europe
To support work to restore nature in Europe by: encouraging wildlife comeback, improving policy frameworks to facilitate rewilding, and developing new models to mobilise financial sector support for rewilding.
$1,776,641
2019
3 years
The Lumen Database
To support the Lumen database, which collects and analyses legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials.
$1,500,000
2019
3 years
Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs
To provide match funding for the Community-led Open Publication Infrastructures for Monographs (COPIM) project to increase the number of open-access scholarly books.
$1,048,000
2019
3 years
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
Converting University Press Monograph Publishing to Open Access
To develop a strategy and business plan for converting MIT Press monograph publishing to open access, and provide a transition fund to support open access monographs at the MIT Press while it implements the changes.
$850,000
2019
3 years
Maktoub - Digital preservation and open access to Arabic and Islamic manuscripts and rare books
To digitize manuscripts and books, including the Yahuda collection and Arab-Palestinian collection, and make them freely available online with metadata in Arabic and English.
$780,485
2019
1 year
Acquisitions and collection care
To acquire, preserve, catalogue, and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks, and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
$750,000
2019
3 years
Improving Biodiversity
Towards the restoration of the historic lake, construction of the new lake, and other work to improve the biodiversity of the gardens at the RHS Bridgewater site.
$642,096
2019
1 year
Historic Ice Core
Harvard University (Department of History)
http://sohp.fas.harvard.edu/historical-ice-core-heart-europe
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
Wende archival digitization
To digitize approximately 50,000 pages of the most important archival material held by the Wende and make it freely available online.
$450,000
2019
3 years
A Coalition for Open Knowledge in Higher Education and Research
To develop and strengthen a coalition of universities with a shared agenda to become Open Knowledge Institutions.
$365,580
2019
2 years
Core costs
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2019
1 year
Core costs
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$250,000
2019
1 year
Digitizing the Women of the Book collection and the George Peabody Library collection
To digitize two collections from the Sheridan Libraries Special Collections; the Women of the Book collection and the George Peabody Library’s signature holdings, and make the results freely available online.
$235,000
2019
1 year