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.

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Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Culture
Mapping Archaeological Pre-Columbian Heritage in South America

$3,004,342

2026 | 2.75 years

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To document the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia, and make the results freely available online.

J Paul Getty Trust

Culture
Arches Endowment

$500,000

2025 | 1 year

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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.

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Culture
Mapping Archaeological Pre-Columbian Heritage in South America

$433,630

2025 | 1 year

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To document the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia, and make the results freely available online.

University of Cambridge - McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Culture
Mapping Africa's Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments

$7,125,000

2024 | 5 years

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To carry out large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results freely available online.

University of Cambridge - McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Culture
Mapping the Archaeological Heritage of South Asia

$5,750,000

2024 | 5 years

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To undertake the large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results freely available online.

University of Oxford - School of Archaeology

Culture
Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa

$2,750,000

2024 | 3 years

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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.

University of Southampton

Culture
Maritime Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa

$1,499,990

2024 | 3 years

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To document endangered maritime archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa and to make the data freely available online.

J Paul Getty Trust

Culture
Arches Endowment

$1,000,000

2024 | 1 year

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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.

University College London (Institute of Archaeology)

Culture
Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes

$4,194,000

2023 | 5 years

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To document heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites from aerial and satellite imagery, and make the results freely available online.

Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Culture
Mapping Pre-Columbian archaeological heritage in South America

$2,270,637

2022 | 3 years

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To document the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia, and make the results freely available online.

Bournemouth University

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

$87,079

2022 | 1 year

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For a pilot project to test remote sensing techniques and existing in-country data for documenting cultural heritage on the islands.

Maritime Archaeology & Heritage Institute

Culture
Inventory of Maritime Archaeology in Pakistan

$495,354

2021 | 2 years

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Pilot project to create an inventory of maritime archaeological resources in Pakistan and make the results freely available online. The resulting documentation was added to the Mapping Archaeological Heritage in South Asia database.

Getty Conservation Institute

Culture
Internationalization of Arches data management platform software

$325,000

2021 | 1 year

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

Heritage and Beyond

Culture
Desert of the Mamluks documentation project

$79,730

2021 | 1 year

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To document endangered built heritage and oral traditions in the ‘Desert of the Mamluks’ in Cairo’s ‘City of the Dead’ necropolis, and make the resulting materials freely available online.

Kyoto University

Culture
Maritime Asia Heritage Survey

$6,253,809

2020 | 5 years

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To document endangered heritage sites from Maritime Southern Asia: Thailand, Indonesia and the Maldives, and make the results freely available online.

Oxford Brookes University

Culture
Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme

$6,057,000

2020 | 5 years

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To support a grant programme to document traditional practices of creating and maintaining wooden buildings and make the results freely available online.

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Heidelberg University

Culture
Nepal Heritage Documentation Project

$3,006,209

2020 | 6 years

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To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley and make the resulting materials freely available online.

Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology

Culture
Mongolia Heritage Sites Survey

$2,423,967

2020 | 5 years

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To create a publicly accessible database of endangered archaeological heritage in Mongolia using satellite imagery and on-the-ground survey.

University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research

Culture
Mapping Africa's endangered sites and monuments

$4,249,600

2019 | 3 years

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To carry out large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results freely available online.

University of Oxford (School of Archaeology)

Culture
Endangered Archaeology of the Middle East and North Africa

$4,176,159

2019 | 5 years

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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.