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.

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Discretionary

Grant recipient

Centre for Economics and Financial Research

To develop a new Russian economics think tank.

$1,238,300

2004

2 years

Documenting Ukraine fellowships

To support journalists, scholars, artists, public intellectuals and archivists based in Ukraine.

$1,273,300

2022

2 years

Fellowship scheme

To help refugee academics re-establish their professional lives.

$872,500

2006

1 year

Fellowship scheme

To help refugee academics re-establish their professional lives.

$358,596

2007

2 years

HIV/AIDS programme

To treat mothers and carers with HIV/AIDS in South Africa.

$464,550

2006

1 year

Illuminated River Project

To support a scheme for lighting central London’s bridges along the River Thames.

$6,162,728

2017

3 years

Scholars at Risk

To give fellowships to scholars facing persecution in their home countries.

$1,000,000

2005

7 years

To establish an eye health fund in Asia and Africa

To support existing and new eye health programmes in Asia and Africa.

$1,000,000

2018

1 year

Towards the Theory of the Foundation learning collaborative

To support the development of the field of knowledge about foundations as institutions.

$50,000

2020

2 years

Yaeda Valley project

Towards protecting the forested ancestral homeland of the Hadza hunter-gatherers in the Yaeda Valley.

$71,280

2022

1 year

Graduate and post-graduate bursaries

To support female graduates attending the institute and provide bursaries to help them to pursue Masters’ and PhD programmes in South Africa.

$705,420

2007

1 year

Research Centre of Excellence

To acquire a site for an advanced research centre, in partnership with Oxford and Cambridge Universities, Paris-Sud XI and the South African universities of Cape Town, Stellenbosch, and the Western Cape.

$313,605

2007

2 years

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

Towards the Pauline Yu Fellowship Fund in Chinese or Comparative Literature

To provide a lead gift for a fellowship scheme in Chinese or Comparative Literature.

$1,000,000

2018

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

Henry Koerner Hall

Towards a new building for student accommodations.

$2,241,088

2017

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

Borderland Foundation core costs

To help Borderland (Fundacja Pogranicze) deliver its mission to support cross-border cultural and community exchanges.

$100,000

2021

4 years

Promoting science for all

To support public outreach to help people connect with science and benefit from it.

$91,065

2008

1 year

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