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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Culture

Grant recipient

Towards core costs

$100,000

2023

1 year

Trinity College Medieval Manuscripts

Towards the digitization of fourteen significant Medieval manuscripts in the collection of Trinity College Dublin

$200,000

2023

2 years

Refuseniks & Activists: The Soviet Jewish Emigration Project

Towards digitizing primary sources on the Soviet Jewish diaspora from disparate collections, and making them freely accessible online.

$200,000

2023

2 years

The Einstein Papers Project

To continue the digitization and open access publication of Albert Einstein's papers

$300,000

2023

3 years

Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes

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

$4,194,000

2023

5 years

Endangered Archives Programme

The Endangered Archives Programme gives grants to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration. The programme supports projects that cover rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century. All of the digitized materials are freely available online.

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$18,000,000

2023

10 years

Towards the costs of running the museum

Towards the costs of running the museum

$100,000

2023

1 year

Anticaste archives: Preserving historical and cultural memory

To digitize Dalit community and family archives in India, and to make these materials available in an open-access digital archive

$1,700,000

2022

5 years

Towards core costs

$100,000

2022

1 year

California Language Archive

To provide core support to the California Language Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.

$500,000

2022

5 years

Towards the costs of running the museum

Towards the costs of running the museum

$100,000

2022

1 year

Institute for Archival Research

Towards construction costs for the Wende Museum's international centre for digitization and conservation of at-risk post-war archives

$3,300,000

2022

1 year

Documenting cultural heritage in the Cook Islands and Niue - pilot study

To trial and assess remote sensing techniques and existing in-country data, and refining the proposed methodology for documenting cultural heritage on the islands, whilst strengthening local partner and community relationships

$87,079.20

2022

1 year

DiPiKA - Digitization and Preservation of Kerala Archives

To survey and digitize some of the most important collections of palm-leaf manuscripts in the Thrissur and Ernakulam districts, Kerala, India in both institutional and family collections. These will be made available online in an open-access repository

$823,939

2022

5 years

Mapping Pre-Columbian archaeological heritage in South America

To produce an integrated public access database for the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia.

$2,270,637

2022

3 years

Sinai Library Digitization Project

To digitize and publish online more of the remaining manuscripts of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai beyond the Arabic and Syriac manuscripts digitized in phase I, as well as newly discovered palimpsests

$2,014,000

2022

3 years

Documenting the contemporary history of science in India

To collect, preserve and make available online endangered cultural artefacts related to the contemporary (~200 years) history of science in South Asia. It will also develop a prototype tool for interpretation and access through linked open data and public annotation of archival material

$440,000

2022

3 years

Modern Endangered Archives Program

The Modern Endangered Archives Program gives grants to digitize endangered archival materials from the 20th and 21st centuries. The programme supports projects that digitize printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the mid-20th century onwards. All of the digitized materials are freely available online.

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$13,000,000

2022

8 years

Internationalization of Arches data management platform software

To develop a new software module for the Arches data management platform

$325,000

2021

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