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.
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
Core costs of the organisation
To support the work of the Wikimedia projects.
$191,750
2008
1 year
Universal Library Project
To research the feasibility of developing a universal digital library.
$50,000
2007
1 year
Publication of Einstein's papers
To preserve the archive of Einstein’s scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and make it freely available online.
$235,940
2006
1 year
Computerised Access to the Records of the Linnean Society (CARLS)
To digitize the Society’s collections and make them freely available online.
$889,200
2005
1 year
Harvard Library: global fund for open collections
To digitize key collections and make them freely available online.
$5,000,000
2004
5 years