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.

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Strategic

Grant recipient

Wildlife Defence Programme

To enforce the laws that protect European wildlife and habitats through targeted litigation and other legal interventions, supported and complemented by strategic advocacy and capacity building with partners across Europe.

$2,992,500

2018

5 years

Commons Collaborative Archive and Library

To support the development of the Commons Collaborative Archive and Library, a tool for discovery and collaboration that will make the global commons of openly-licensed content more searchable, usable, and resilient, and provide essential infrastructure for collaborative online communities.

$800,000

2018

2 years

Search engine for open access scholarly content

To build and support a new non-profit free search engine that will make it easy for the public to find, read, and understand the peer-reviewed literature

$850,000

2018

2 years

Liberating species descriptions from in-copyright journal articles

Supporting ongoing efforts to liberate taxonomic data from scientific publications, making them findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), and creating a critical mass to make the resulting repository and tools the de facto standards in the taxonomic community.

$1,298,000

2018

3 years

Core funding

To digitize and give open access to legal documents, technical standards, traditional knowledge, scientific knowledge, edicts of government, and safety standards that should be in the public domain.

$1,500,000

2018

3 years

Open Access Button

To improve how libraries find open access content. The project will create free, open source tools for institutions to help them find open access copies more efficiently. This will save money, speed-up access to research and increase use of existing open access outputs.

$422,000

2018

2 years

The Freedom of Information Archive at History Lab

To provide free access to declassified government information and improve the content's discoverability

$407,000

2018

2 years

Unlocking University Press Books

Towards digitizing more than 15,000 volumes of published monographs from university libraries' collections, and making them available via the Internet Archive’s controlled digital lending platform, which protects the university presses’ intellectual property and institutional investments.

$1,003,300

2018

4 years

Conservation of Freshwater Biodiversity in Key River Ecosystems

To influence how rivers are governed, protected in law, and valued through planning and management, with the aim of ensuring that rivers are used sustainably and can continue to perform their critical biodiversity functions.

$1,250,000

2018

5 years

Marine Wildlife Protection

To protect and restore marine life and ecosystems in some of the most biodiverse areas of the oceans through policy changes at the national and regional levels

$10,500,000

2018

7 years

A framework to make more books freely available online

To develop technology, policies, and partnerships that will increase the amount of book content that researchers can access digitally.

$5,000,000

2018

3 years

Deep Sea Conservation Coalition

To support the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) to continue its mission to protect deep-sea species and ecosystems from the harmful impacts of fishing and mining, and to strengthen and enhance biodiversity conservation and governance in international oceans.

$472,000

2018

5 years

Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes

To create an online open-access database of heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites.

$3,843,700

2018

5 years

Endowment for the Center for Jewish History

To increase the centre’s fundraising capacity, and to provide match-funding for an endowment supporting the centre’s work in digitization and archival preservation.

$3,500,000

2018

3 years

Documentation of maritime archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa

To document endangered maritime archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa and to publish the results through an online database.

$2,660,000

2018

5 years

Patagonia National Park

To create a continuous area of protected natural landscape by purchasing land adjacent to the Patagonia Park, which contains key access points and valuable habitat for threatened wildlife.

$490,000

2018

1 year

History of Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism

To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan's multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.

$68,000

2018

2 years

Maldives Heritage Survey

To document the cultural heritage of the Maldives, and to publish the material online in an open-access database

$620,000

2018

2 years

Documentation of endangered historic buildings with frescoes in Shanxi Province, China

To survey and document endangered historic buildings with frescoes in Shanxi Province, ranging in date from early medieval to 19th century, and to publish the results online in an open-access bilingual database.

$1,047,438

2018

6 years

Digitization of Syriac and Arabic manuscripts in Saint Catherine Monastery, Sinai

To digitize and publish online the Arabic and Syriac manuscript codices of St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.

$980,051

2018

3 years