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 February 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.
Endangered Languages Documentation Programme
To support a grant programme to document languages which are at risk of extinction, and build a digital archive to make the results freely available online.
Learn more$33,851,813
2002
15 years
Courtauld Endowment Fund
To ensure the long-term financial sustainability and academic independence of the Courtauld Institute.
$7,880,000
2002
5 years
MBA programme
To create an international executive MBA programme.
$4,336,000
2002
1 year
Halcyon Land & Sea
To work with local partners and communities to protect and restore important at-risk and biodiversity-rich natural habitats.
$5,000,000
2003
1 year
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
Harvard Library: global fund for open collections
To digitize key collections and make them freely available online.
$5,000,000
2004
5 years
Operating and acquisition costs
To acquire, preserve, catalogue and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
$1,867,100
2004
1 year
Promotion of UK philanthropy
To support the Institute’s work to increase the effectiveness of philanthropy through education and raising awareness.
$1,808,500
2004
5 years
Centre for Economics and Financial Research
To develop a new Russian economics think tank.
$1,238,300
2004
2 years
Exhibition of Islamic art
To exhibit calligraphy, textiles, jewels, metalwork, ceramics and paintings from the 9th to 19th centuries.
$93,355
2004
2 years
Secondary school bursaries
To support young women in Uganda to gain skills that will benefit their lives and communities.
$5,000,000
2005
7 years
Endowment to Department of History
To support the establishment and ongoing work of the Gary B. Nash Endowed Chair in United States History, the Joyce Oldham Appleby Endowed Chair of America in the World, the Hans Rogger International Student Fund in History, the Millennium Endowed Graduate Fellowship Fund and the Dean of Social Sciences Fund for Faculty Support in History in the College of Letters and Science.
$5,000,000
2005
5 years
Scholars at Risk
To give fellowships to scholars facing persecution in their home countries.
$1,000,000
2005
7 years
Research, advocacy, and outreach to promote women's rights
To advocate for gender equality, protecting the rights and improving the lives of women and girls.
$1,000,000
2005
1 year
Operating and acquisition costs
To acquire, preserve, catalogue and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
$991,500
2005
2 years
Computerised Access to the Records of the Linnean Society (CARLS)
To digitize the Society’s collections and make them freely available online.
$889,200
2005
1 year
Books for schools programme
To give a copy of each title in the Everyman collection to every state secondary school in the UK.
$284,544
2005
1 year
History of Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism (Toledot Torat Hasod Ha'ivrit)
To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan’s multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.
$150,000
2005
3 years
Scholars at Risk
To start a programme in Israel, providing short-term positions for academics at risk.
$57,285
2005
1 year
Miriam Rothschild Professorship of Conservation Biology
To endow a Professorship of Conservation Biology at the University of Cambridge.
$6,635,560
2006
5 years