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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Grant recipient
Purpose
Grant details
Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Culture
Mapping Archaeological Pre-Columbian Heritage in South America
$3,004,342
2026 | 2.75 years
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Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Culture$3,004,342
2026 | 2.75 years
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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J Paul Getty Trust
Culture$500,000
2025 | 1 year
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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Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Culture$433,630
2025 | 1 year
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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University of Cambridge - McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Culture$7,125,000
2024 | 5 years
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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University of Cambridge - McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Culture$5,750,000
2024 | 5 years
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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University of Oxford - School of Archaeology
Culture$2,750,000
2024 | 3 years
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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University of Southampton
Culture$1,499,990
2024 | 3 years
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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J Paul Getty Trust
Culture$1,000,000
2024 | 1 year
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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University College London (Institute of Archaeology)
Culture$4,194,000
2023 | 5 years
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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Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Culture$2,270,637
2022 | 3 years
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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Bournemouth University
Culture$87,079
2022 | 1 year
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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Maritime Archaeology & Heritage Institute
Culture$495,354
2021 | 2 years
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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Getty Conservation Institute
Culture$325,000
2021 | 1 year
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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Heritage and Beyond
Culture$79,730
2021 | 1 year
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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Kyoto University
Culture$6,253,809
2020 | 5 years
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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Oxford Brookes University
Culture$6,057,000
2020 | 5 years
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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Heidelberg University
Culture$3,006,209
2020 | 6 years
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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Max Planck Institute for Geoanthropology
Culture$2,423,967
2020 | 5 years
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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University of Cambridge McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research
Culture$4,249,600
2019 | 3 years
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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University of Oxford (School of Archaeology)
Culture$4,176,159
2019 | 5 years
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.