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.
Towards the Wikimedia endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$1,000,000
2026
1 year
Core funding
To support Public.Resource.Org's work to make edicts of government freely available online.
$5,000,000
2025
6 years
Library Futures
To support librarians, policymakers, and community leaders to get fair access to digital content and services.
$2,500,000
2025
4 years
The IOI Fund for Network Adoption
To establish a grant programme to fund networks that support open access to research.
$1,800,000
2025
4 years
Theses and Dissertations: Preservation and Access
To preserve graduate theses and dissertations from thousands of institutions and make them freely available online.
$900,160
2025
3 years
The Universal Yiddish Library
To digitize Yiddish books and make them freely available online.
$750,000
2025
3 years
Open Infrastructure Circle
To support the technical and legal maintenance of Creative Commons Licenses.
$600,000
2025
3 years
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$250,000
2025
1 year
Open Research Funders Group
$50,000
2025
3 years
Richly Illustrated Open-Access Books in Jewish-German History
To support the production of three scholarly books and make them freely available online.
$15,000
2025
3 years
Enabling digital access to books
To improve discovery and availability of digital books via libraries, build a corpus of freely- or easily-accessible digital books; pilot and scale innovative models to negotiate rights to serve more books digitally; and identify more titles to make available digitally.
$15,000,000
2024
3 years
OpenAlex: a free index for the world's research
To support the growth, development and institutional use of an open and comprehensive index of scholarly works, authors and institutions.
$7,500,000
2024
5 years
Project on Copyright and the Right to Research
For research and advocacy at the World Intellectual Property Office to secure reforms for greater access to scholarly research through exceptions to copyright law.
$6,500,000
2024
5 years
The Knowledge Rights 21 Programme (phase II)
To promote copyright law reform and regulation at EU and national level to enable libraries to facilitate greater access to and use of copyrighted works for cultural, educational and research purposes.
$6,050,000
2024
5 years
Strengthening open access in the USA
To support policy and advocacy work to improve open access to research outputs in the United States.
$6,000,000
2024
6 years
Towards the Wikimedia endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$250,000
2024
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2024
1 year
Open Book Futures
To develop services and resources to support open-access book publishing by small-to-medium-sized publishers, non-profits and scholarly libraries.
$3,429,600
2023
3 years
FragDenStaat: Democratising Public Databases
To make German government documents and unfairly restricted information freely available online.
$1,205,100
2023
4 years
Towards the Wikimedia endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$250,000
2023
1 year