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 February 2026). 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 Languages Documentation Programme
To support a grant programme to document languages which are at risk of extinction, and build a digital archive to make the results freely available online.
Learn more$24,990,000
2021
10 years
Endangered Archives Programme
To support a grant programme to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration, covering rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century, and to make the records freely available online.
Learn more$18,000,000
2023
10 years
Endangered Archives Programme
To support a grant programme to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration, covering rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century, and to make the records freely available online.
Learn more$11,970,000
2018
7 years
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
To support a grant programme for documenting endangered material culture (how things are made and how they are used), and to make materials freely available online.
Learn more$11,075,680
2020
8 years
Endangered Material Knowledge Programme
To support a grant programme for documenting endangered material culture (how things are made and how they are used), and to make materials freely available online.
Learn more$2,295,684
2018
4 years
Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme
Oxford Brookes University
https://www.brookes.ac.uk/research/units/tde/projects/endangered-wooden-architecture-programme/
To support a grant programme to document traditional practices of creating and maintaining wooden buildings and make the results freely available online.
Learn more$6,057,000
2020
5 years
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
To support a grant programme to document languages which are at risk of extinction, and build a digital archive to make the results freely available online.
Learn more$33,851,813
2002
15 years
Modern Endangered Archives Program
The Regents of the University of California, on behalf of its Los Angeles campus, for the UCLA Library
https://library.ucla.edu/partnerships/modern-endangered-archives-program
To support a grant programme to digitize endangered printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the 20th and 21st centuries and make the digitized materials freely available online.
Learn more$5,500,000
2018
6 years
Modern Endangered Archives Program
To support a grant programme to digitize endangered printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the 20th and 21st centuries, and make the digitized materials freely available online.
Learn more$13,000,000
2022
8 years
Digital library for the study of Africa
To build an online library of scholarly resources and make it freely available online to users from African institutions.
$2,500,000
2007
1 year
Towards the Centennial Campaign
To extend the reach of the Council’s fellowship programme.
$2,000,000
2017
4 years
Reading and Writing Gallery
To showcase the origins and development of reading and writing across cultures, from the fourth century BC to the printing press.
$1,747,700
2006
1 year
Survey of digital resources in African universities
To assess the need for, and improve engagement with, digital resources in African universities.
$105,798
2009
1 year
To support the Bard core endowment
Towards the core endowment in recognition of the Bard Network’s work.
$5,000,000
2021
1 year
Refuseniks & Activists: The Soviet Jewish Emigration Project
To collate and digitize primary sources on the Soviet Jewish diaspora from disparate collections and make them freely available online.
$200,000
2023
2 years
Documenting cultural heritage in the Cook Islands and Niue - pilot study
For a pilot project to test remote sensing techniques and existing in-country data for documenting cultural heritage on the islands.
$87,079.20
2022
1 year
Endangered Archives Programme
To support a grant programme to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration, covering rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century, and to make the records freely available online.
$16,960,153
2004
13 years
Oral History of British Science
To develop an oral history archive of voices and memories for the study of 20th-century science in Britain and make it freely available online via the British Library.
$793,371
2009
5 years
Documentation of archaeological archives in Egypt
British Museum
http://britishmuseum.org/about_us/departments/egypt_and_sudan/egypt_documentation_project.aspx
To provide training for Egyptian heritage specialists to digitize and publish online glass plate photographs of early archaeological displays.
$336,304
2015
2 years
TARA image project
To preserve the Trust for African Rock Art’s (TARA) photographic archive and make it freely available online.
$1,345,590
2012
6 years