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.
Advancing Rewilding in Europe
To support Rewilding Europe to increase its impact in making Europe a wilder place via three targeted activities: encouraging wildlife comeback; improving policy frameworks to facilitate rewilding; and developing new rewilding models to mobilise financial sector support to rewilding.
$1,776,641
2019
3 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
Nature's Strongholds programme
To support WCS in securing long-term conservation through a portfolio of nature strongholds - establishing or expanding protected areas and strengthening conservation of the most important existing wilderness areas.
$20,000,000
2019
4 years
Core support to Conservation Leadership Programme
To increase the overall impact and ensure the long-term sustainability of the Conservation Leadership Programme
$5,999,917
2019
6 years
Acquisitions and collection care
Towards the Wende Museum's acquisition of Eastern Bloc artefacts and care for its existing collection.
$750,000
2019
3 years
Wende endowment
Towards an endowment for the Wende Museum with proceeds specifically for collections care and acquisitions.
$7,500,000
2019
10 years
Wende archival digitization
Digitizing approximately 50,000 pages of the most important archival material held by the Wende and putting it online.
$450,000
2019
3 years
Core support
To support the Turquoise Mountain Trust's work with artisans in Afghanistan, Myanmar and Jordan
$30,285
2019
1 year
Running costs
$100,000
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
$90,854
2019
1 year
"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
Advancing Open Access at UCLA
The Library plans to put this generous contribution to good use by funding the publication of open access monographs via TOME, and to further open access initiatives by membership and participation in organizations such as Libraria.
$100,000
2019
1 year
Advancing Open Access
Berkeley will continue to build responsible access workflows for copyright and information policy. These novel workflows will support decision-making related to digitizing and providing access to unique collections in cultural heritage institutions. They will also bolster innovative work educating scholars about navigating copyright, contracts, privacy, and ethics in text & data mining research. 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
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
$100,000
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
$100,000
2019
1 year
Advancing open access
$200,000
2019
1 year
Core costs
Unrestricted funding to help support general management, staff, IT equipment and training, fundraising and governance.
$250,000
2019
1 year
Turning Wikipedia references blue
To digitize and make available online 100,000 books that are cited in Wikipedia.
$2,000,000
2019
1 year
Digitizing the Women of the Book collection and the George Peabody Library collection
To digitize and make permanently available online two collections from the Sheridan Libraries Special Collections; the Women of the Book collection and the George Peabody Library's signature holdings.
$235,000
2019
1 year
Nepal cultural heritage documentation project
To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley, and publish them online in a searchable, free database
$945,748
2018
2 years