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.
Core support
To support Oceana's campaigns to protect and restore marine habitats.
$14,000,000
2025
7 years
Core funding
To support Public.Resource.Org's work to make edicts of government freely available online.
$5,000,000
2025
6 years
To build and protect strong legislative mechanisms for nature conservation and restoration in Europe.
To support sound implementation of nature legislation in Europe, with a focus on forest resilience.
$2,754,000
2025
2.5 years
The Global Gramophone: Early commercial sound recordings around the world
To digitize the shellac discs in the so-called ‘Orient’ catalogue, and to make these audio files freely available online.
$2,541,000
2025
5 years
Library Futures
To support librarians, policymakers, and community leaders to get fair access to digital content and services.
$2,500,000
2025
4 years
Core support
To support Peace Brigades International's work to protect environmental defenders.
$2,472,000
2025
4 years
Digitization of Manuscripts in Southeast Asia
To support large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia and make these freely available online.
$2,260,850
2025
5 years
The IOI Fund for Network Adoption
To establish a grant programme to fund networks that support open access to research.
$1,800,000
2025
4 years
Arches Endowment
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.
$1,500,000
2025
1 year
Core support.
To support the Environmental Defenders Collaborative's work to provide funding for environmental human rights defenders.
$1,210,000
2025
4 years
Theses and Dissertations: Preservation and Access
To preserve graduate theses and dissertations from thousands of institutions and make them freely available online.
$900,160
2025
3 years
Mapping Archaeological Pre-Columbian Heritage in South America
To document the pre-Columbian archaeological heritage of South America, focussing on Brazil and Colombia, and make the results freely available online.
$433,630
2025
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$250,000
2025
1 year
Towards core costs
To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.
$100,000
2025
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum
$100,000
2025
1 year
Legacy Landscapes Fund Learning Event
To support the costs of a workshop for Legacy Landscape Fund's partners to encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing.
$54,000
2025
1 year
Open Research Funders Group
$50,000
2025
3 years
Enabling digital access to books
To improve discovery and availability of digital books via libraries, build a corpus of freely- or easily-accessible digital books; pilot and scale innovative models to negotiate rights to serve more books digitally; and identify more titles to make available digitally.
$15,000,000
2024
3 years
OpenAlex: a free index for the world's research
To support the growth, development and institutional use of an open and comprehensive index of scholarly works, authors and institutions.
$7,500,000
2024
5 years
Mapping Africa's Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments
To carry out large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results freely available online.
$7,125,000
2024
5 years