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.
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
International Rivers
https://www.internationalrivers.org/blogs/734/protecting-freshwater-biodiversity-how-international-r
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
University College London (Institute of Archaeology)
http://shanxi-project.org/shanxi-digital-documentation-project/
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