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.

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Strategic

Grant recipient

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

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

Towards a three year membership

$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

$7,125,000

2024

5 years