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.
Wende endowment
Towards a permanent endowment for the Wende Museum for collections care and acquisitions and general operations.
$12,500,000
2024
1 year
Core support
$2,500,000
2024
1 year
Core support
Core support for the work of the College.
$108,000
2024
1 year
Towards core costs
To support the Authors Alliance to represent the interests of academics and other authors whose primary motivation is to disseminate knowledge.
$50,000
2024
1 year
Digitising the National Farm Survey
To digitize the records of the National Farm Survey of England and Wales (1941-1943), and make them freely available online, together with a tool that makes each farm searchable.
$2,553,878
2023
3 years
Endowment fund for fellows
To establish an endowment fund to provide annual fellowships for scholars working at the Center for Jewish History and with the collections of the Center and its partners.
$1,000,000
2023
1 year
Post-doctoral fellowships
Towards supporting post-doctoral researchers in the Center for Early Global Studies at UCLA.
$552,693
2023
5 years
To support a new staff editor
Towards the costs of a new staff editor for Places Journal - a free scholarly publication dedicated to architecture, landscape and urbanism which promotes equitable cities and resilient landscapes.
$500,000
2023
5 years
Bridget Phillips professorship
Support towards a new professorial position in memory of Bridget Phillips at the University of Florida.
$200,000
2023
1 year
Core support
Core support for the work of the College.
$110,000
2023
1 year
Mountbatten archives legal case
Towards the final settlement of legal costs incurred by The Andrew Lownie Literary Agency Limited in the campaign to secure public access to the Mountbatten Archive held by the University of Southampton.
$46,945
2023
1 year
Core support
Core support for the European Review of Books.
$22,000
2023
1 year
Documenting Ukraine fellowships
To support journalists, scholars, artists, public intellectuals and archivists based in Ukraine.
$1,273,300
2022
2 years
Documenting Ukraine fellowships
To support journalists, scholars, artists, public intellectuals and archivists based in Ukraine.
$540,000
2022
1 year
Director's discretionary fund
To support open access initiatives within or outside MIT, as identified by the MIT Press Director.
$500,000
2022
3 years
To support people and National Parks impacted by the war in Ukraine.
To support a collaboration between Frankfurt Zoological Society and Foundation Conservation Carpathia to provide equipment and supplies for people in Ukraine’s national parks.
$297,500
2022
1 year
To support people and National Parks impacted by the war in Ukraine.
Frankfurt Zoological Society
https://fzs.org/en/support/emergency-support-for-protected-areas-in-the-carpathians/
To support a collaboration between Frankfurt Zoological Society and Foundation Conservation Carpathia to provide equipment and supplies for people in Ukraine’s national parks.
$297,500
2022
1 year
Towards Akhuwat's flood relief work in Pakistan
To provide interest-free micro-loans to rebuild homes and support businesses and agriculture in areas impacted by the floods in Pakistan.
$250,000
2022
1 year
Digitizing the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection
To digitize items from the Arthur and Janet Freeman Bibliotheca Fictiva Collection of rare books and manuscripts on the history of forgery, and make them freely available online.
$222,825
2022
1 year
Yaeda Valley project
Towards protecting the forested ancestral homeland of the Hadza hunter-gatherers in the Yaeda Valley.
$71,280
2022
1 year