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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The Nature Conservancy

Nature
Eternal Mongolia - Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund

$6,000,000

2024 | 5 years

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To complete the match fund for a newly established Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund which will oversee the Eternal Mongolia Project Finance for Permanence initiative.

University of Cambridge

Nature
Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme

$71,648,800

2023 | 8 years

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To support a grant programme to support large-scale projects to restore biodiversity-rich terrestrial and marine habitats across Europe at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

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Legacy Landscapes Fund

Nature
Legacy Landscapes Fund match grants

$25,000,000

2023 | 1 year

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Match funding to create long-term endowments for the conservation of large landscapes centred on Chiribiquete (Colombia), Makira-Masoala (Madagascar) and Tambrauw (Indonesia).

Fauna & Flora

Nature
Halcyon Land & Sea Programmes and core support

$18,000,000

2023 | 3.5 years

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To provide core support for Fauna & Flora and to support its work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.

Wildlife Conservation Society

Nature
Saving Nature's Strongholds

$8,000,000

2023 | 2 years

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To support long-term conservation by establishing or expanding protected areas and strengthening conservation of the most important existing wilderness areas.

re:wild

Nature
Core support

$6,000,000

2022 | 5 years

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To support re:wild to expand its work for nature conservation organizations worldwide.

Wildlife Conservation Society

Nature
WCS - Legacy Landscapes Fund

$5,000,000

2022 | 5 years

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To provide match funding for a long-term endowment from the Legacy Landscape Fund for the conservation of the Leuser Ecosystem in Sumatra, Indonesia.

Rewilding Europe

Nature
Advancing rewilding across Europe

$4,999,995

2022 | 5 years

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To promote nature restoration across Europe through the development of innovative models, including a grant programme to accelerate wildlife comeback in Europe.

re:wild

Nature
Rewilding Argentina Ibera Wildfire Crisis Fund

$100,000

2022 | 1 year

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To provide a donation to Rewilding Argentina’s Iberá Wildlife Crisis Fund, paid through its fiscal sponsor re:wild.

Stichting European Open Rivers Programme

Nature
European Open Rivers Programme

$50,575,000

2021 | 6 years

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To support a grant programme to remove redundant dams, weirs and other river barriers across Europe, so that rivers can flow naturally and biodiversity can flourish.

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Fauna & Flora

Nature
FFI Conservation Resilience Fund

$2,000,000

2021 | 3 years

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To help local conservation organizations adopt new operational models to adapt to a post-COVID-19 future.

Wildlife Conservation Society

Nature
WCS Local Conservation Partners Fund

$2,000,000

2021 | 3 years

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To help local conservation organizations adopt new operational and business models to adapt to a post-COVID-19 future.

University of Cambridge

Nature
Endangered Landscapes Programme

$35,059,365

2020 | 10 years

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To support a grant programme to support large-scale projects to restore biodiversity-rich habitats across Europe at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

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Fauna & Flora

Nature
Crisis Support Fund

$1,039,316

2020 | 1 year

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To establish an emergency response fund to support Fauna & Flora’s partner organizations which were affected by COVID-19.

Wildlife Conservation Society

Nature
Nature's Strongholds programme

$20,000,000

2019 | 4 years

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To support long-term conservation by establishing or expanding protected areas and strengthening conservation of the most important existing wilderness areas.

Tompkins Conservation

Nature
Acquisition of six properties in Argentina and Chile

$15,100,000

2019 | 5 years

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To acquire properties of strategic value in Argentina and Chile to expand existing park areas, rewild degraded landscapes and advance biodiversity conservation.

Royal Botanic Gardens Kew

Nature
Millennium Seed Bank Partnership – Threatened Biodiversity Hotspots Programme

$3,250,980

2019 | 5 years

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To collect seeds and build in-country conservation capacity in biodiverse hotspots experiencing rapid and drastic land use changes.

Rewilding Europe

Nature
Advancing Rewilding in Europe

$1,776,641

2019 | 3 years

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To support work to restore nature in Europe by: encouraging wildlife comeback, improving policy frameworks to facilitate rewilding, and developing new models to mobilise financial sector support for rewilding.

Royal Horticultural Society The

Nature
Improving Biodiversity

$642,096

2019 | 1 year

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Towards the restoration of the historic lake, construction of the new lake, and other work to improve the biodiversity of the gardens at the RHS Bridgewater site.

Wetlands International

Nature
Conservation of East Asian-Australasian Flyway

$1,740,000

2018 | 5 years

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To conserve and restore degraded habitats in the Yellow Sea region in the East Asian-Australasian Flyway.