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.
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
Project on Copyright and the Right to Research
For research and advocacy at the World Intellectual Property Office to secure reforms for greater access to scholarly research through exceptions to copyright law.
$6,500,000
2024
5 years
Strengthening open access in the USA
To support policy and advocacy work to improve open access to research outputs in the United States.
$6,000,000
2024
6 years
Eternal Mongolia - Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund
To complete the match fund for a newly established Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund which will oversee the Eternal Mongolia Project Finance for Permanence initiative.
$6,000,000
2024
5 years
Mapping the Archaeological Heritage of South Asia
To undertake the large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results freely available online.
$5,750,000
2024
5 years
Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa
To document endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and make the data freely available online.
$2,750,000
2024
3 years
Maritime Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa
To document endangered maritime archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa and to make the data freely available online.
$1,499,990
2024
3 years
Preserving the Full Legacy of Yiddish Poet A. N. Stencl
To collect and digitize endangered archival material related to the Yiddish poet Abraham Nahum Stencl (1897-1983) and make the results freely available online.
$314,763
2024
2 years
Towards the Wikimedia endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$250,000
2024
1 year
Protecting biodiversity through law
Scoping grant to explore a regranting programme on protecting biodiversity through law.
$110,000
2024
1 year
Towards core costs
To support the Center’s work to illuminate Jewish history, culture and heritage.
$100,000
2024
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2024
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum
$100,000
2024
1 year
Legacy Landscapes Fund match grants
Match funding to create long-term endowments for the conservation of large landscapes centred on Chiribiquete (Colombia), Makira-Masoala (Madagascar) and Tambrauw (Indonesia).
$25,000,000
2023
1 year
Halcyon Land & Sea and core support
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.
$18,000,000
2023
3.5 years
Saving Nature's Strongholds
To support long-term conservation by establishing or expanding protected areas and strengthening conservation of the most important existing wilderness areas.
$8,000,000
2023
2 years
Biodiversity and habitat governance
To support ClientEarth’s work using legal systems to develop and enforce biodiversity and habitat governance.
$6,250,000
2023
5 years
Central Asian Archaeological Landscapes
To document heritage sites in Central Asia, combining archival records and new documentation of sites from aerial and satellite imagery, and make the results freely available online.
$4,194,000
2023
5 years
Preserving Climate-Critical Rainforests
To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate-critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses. This is vital for combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.
$3,795,000
2023
5 years