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 2025). 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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Chapel restoration project

To provide essential repairs to the 13th Century former Archbishop’s palace that now serves as the Chapel for Mayfield School, ensuring its continued use and preserving the Chapel’s historic fabric.

$605,000

2025

1 year

Core support

$160,000.20

2025

3 years

Core support

To support the running costs of the Ukrainian Red Cross.

$141,752

2025

1 year

Wende endowment

Towards a permanent endowment for the Wende Museum for collections care and acquisitions and general operations.

$12,500,000

2024

1 year

Core support

$2,500,000

2024

1 year

Endowment of the Eleanor Rathbone Chair in Contemporary European History

To endow the Eleanor Rathbone Chair in Modern European History at St Anthony's College, Oxford.

$1,732,500

2024

2 years

Documenting Ukraine fellowships

Documenting Ukraine seeks to contribute to creating a record of the Russo-Ukrainian War by capturing the human experience of that war and making it comprehensible to the broader world. It awards grants to journalists, scholars, public intellectuals, and archivists based in Ukraine.

$1,635,000

2024

3 years

Core support

$108,000

2024

1 year

Towards core costs

To support the Authors Alliance to represent the interests of academics and other authors whose primary motivation is to disseminate knowledge.

$50,000

2024

1 year

Core support

To support the work of the Central European University.

$50,000

2024

1 year

Digitising the National Farm Survey

To digitize the records of the National Farm Survey of England and Wales (1941-1943), and make them freely available online, together with a tool that makes each farm searchable.

$2,553,878

2023

3 years

Endowment fund for fellows

To establish an endowment fund to provide annual fellowships for scholars working at the Center for Jewish History and with the collections of the Center and its partners.

$1,000,000

2023

1 year

Post-doctoral fellowships

Towards supporting post-doctoral researchers in the Center for Early Global Studies at UCLA.

$552,693

2023

5 years

To support a new staff editor

Towards the costs of a new staff editor for Places Journal - a free scholarly publication dedicated to architecture, landscape and urbanism which promotes equitable cities and resilient landscapes.

$500,000

2023

5 years

Bridget Phillips professorship

Support towards a new professorial position in memory of Bridget Phillips at the University of Florida.

$200,000

2023

1 year

Core support

$110,000

2023

1 year

Core support

To support the Authors Alliance to represent the interests of academics and other authors whose primary motivation is to disseminate knowledge.

$50,000

2023

1 year

Mountbatten archives legal case

Towards the final settlement of legal costs incurred by The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Limited in the campaign to secure public access to the Mountbatten Archive held by the University of Southampton.

$46,945

2023

1 year

Core support

$22,000

2023

1 year

Documenting Ukraine fellowships

To support journalists, scholars, artists, public intellectuals and archivists based in Ukraine.

$1,273,300

2022

2 years