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 August 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.
Digitization of manuscripts in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and the Balkans
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa, South Asia and the Balkans and make them freely available online.
$5,000,000
2026
5 years
Mapping Archaeological Pre-Columbian Heritage in South America
To document the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia, and make the results freely available online.
$3,004,342.38
2026
2.75 years
Modern Endangered Archives Program capacity increase
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.
$2,000,000
2026
4 years
Documenting the contemporary history of science in India
To collect and digitize at-risk material related to the history of science in South Asia since the early 19th century, and to make the results freely available online.
$1,800,000
2026
5 years
Digitisation of historic aerial photographs from the Middle East and North Africa
To support the digitization of historic aerial photographs from the Middle East and North Africa to provide accurately geo-referenced mosaics of aerial photographic coverage, and to make the results freely available online.
$404,739.45
2026
1 year
Digitization of West African archives
To support the Dikan Center to digitize West African archival collections and make the materials freely available online.
$100,000
2026
1 year
Collections Research Institute development
To support the refurbishment of the Wende Museum's Hawthorne building to create a world-class collections and research institute.
$4,000,000
2025
3 years
The Global Gramophone: Early commercial sound recordings around the world
To digitize the shellac discs in the so-called ‘Orient’ catalogue, and to make these audio files freely available online.
$2,541,000
2025
5 years
Digitization of Manuscripts in Southeast Asia
To support large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia and make these freely available online.
$2,260,850
2025
5 years
Arches Endowment
To support the Arches open-source software platform, including the software’s maintenance and technology upgrades, ongoing enhancements, and advancing the capacity of the world-wide open-source community to implement Arches.
$1,500,000
2025
1 year
Språkmuseet
To establish a language museum in Stockholm.
$1,052,520
2025
1 year
Five Hundred Year Archive
To support a digital archive of southern African cultural heritage to digitize endangered material and keep it freely available online.
$565,675
2025
5 years
Mapping Archaeological Pre-Columbian Heritage in South America
To document the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia, and make the results freely available online.
$433,630
2025
1 year
Towards core costs
To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.
$100,000
2025
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum
$100,000
2025
1 year
Mapping Africa's Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments
To carry out large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results freely available online.
$7,125,000
2024
5 years
Mapping the Archaeological Heritage of South Asia
To undertake the large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results freely available online.
$5,750,000
2024
5 years
Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa
To document endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and make the data freely available online.
$2,750,000
2024
3 years
Maritime Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa
To document endangered maritime archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa and to make the data freely available online.
$1,499,990
2024
3 years
Arches Endowment
To support the Arches open-source software platform, including the software’s maintenance and technology upgrades, ongoing enhancements, and advancing the capacity of the world-wide open-source community to implement Arches.
$1,000,000
2024
1 year