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 July 2024). 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.
Advancing Open Access
$250,000
2022
1 year
Turning Wikipedia references blue
To digitize and make available online 100,000 books that are cited in Wikipedia.
$2,000,000
2019
1 year
Unlocking University Press Books
Towards digitizing more than 15,000 volumes of published monographs from university libraries' collections, and making them available via the Internet Archive’s controlled digital lending platform, which protects the university presses’ intellectual property and institutional investments.
$1,003,300
2018
4 years
Enhancing Unlocked University Press Books
To create high quality EPUB files of scanned university press books, to enhance the reader experience
$2,000,000
2018
2 years
Digitizing MIT Press backlist titles
Digitizing an initial group of 1,500 MIT Press titles at Internet Archive’s Boston Public Library facility to make them more widely available.
$50,000
2017
1 year
Improving digital preservation
To improve and promote best practices for preserving files stored on tape and disk for ten or more years.
$250,000
2011
2 years