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 March 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.
California Language Archive
To provide core support to the California Language Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.
$500,000
2022
5 years
International Digital Ephemera Project
To digitize, preserve and provide free online access to endangered modern printed and digital ephemera.
$3,414,109
2011
7 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
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
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
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
Anticaste archives: Preserving historical and cultural memory
To digitize Dalit community and family archives in India and make these materials freely available online.
$1,700,000
2022
5 years
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To digitize palimpsests in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai and make the results freely available online.
$2,100,000
2011
5 years
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To improve methods of backlighting palimpsest folios of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, in preparation for their digitization.
$85,000
2009
1 year
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To improve methods of backlighting palimpsest folios of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, in preparation for their digitization.
$35,000
2010
1 year
Sinai Palimpsest Project
To improve methods of backlighting palimpsest folios of manuscripts in the library of St Catherine’s Monastery, Sinai, in preparation for their digitization.
$12,000
2010
1 year
Publication of Einstein's Papers
To preserve the archive of Einstein’s scientific works, other manuscripts and correspondence and make it freely available online.
$45,000
2010
2 years
Digitization of manuscripts in Africa and Asia
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and make them freely available online.
$5,492,813
2021
5 years
Digitization of manuscripts in the Middle East and Africa
To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and Asia and to make them freely available online.
$4,000,000
2016
5 years