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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Grant recipient

Endangered Languages Documentation Programme

To support a grant programme to document languages which are at risk of extinction, and build a digital archive to make the results freely available online.

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$24,990,000

2021

10 years

Endangered Archives Programme

To support a grant programme to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration, covering rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century, and to make the records freely available online.

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$18,000,000

2023

10 years

Endangered Archives Programme

To support a grant programme to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration, covering rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century, and to make the records freely available online.

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$11,970,000

2018

7 years

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

To support a grant programme for documenting endangered material culture (how things are made and how they are used), and to make materials freely available online.

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$11,075,680

2020

8 years

Endangered Material Knowledge Programme

To support a grant programme for documenting endangered material culture (how things are made and how they are used), and to make materials freely available online.

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$2,295,684

2018

4 years

European Open Rivers Programme

To support a grant programme to remove redundant dams, weirs and other river barriers across Europe, so that rivers can flow naturally and biodiversity can flourish.

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$50,575,000

2021

6 years

Earth Investigations Programme

To support a grant programme for environmental investigative journalism on European affairs inside and outside Europe.

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$13,685,000

2021

6 years

Marine protection fund

To support a joint grant programme with Bloomberg Philanthropies for work towards the target of protecting 30% of the world’s marine and coastal areas by 2030.

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$25,000,000

2023

5 years

Oceans 5 Partnership

To support a collaborative grant programme to help stop overfishing, establish marine protected areas, and constrain offshore oil and gas development, to provide lasting benefits to coastal communities and the world’s oceans.

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$6,000,000

2021

3 years

Endangered Wooden Architecture Programme

To support a grant programme to document traditional practices of creating and maintaining wooden buildings and make the results freely available online.

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$6,057,000

2020

5 years

Endangered Languages Documentation Programme

To support a grant programme to document languages which are at risk of extinction, and build a digital archive to make the results freely available online.

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$33,851,813

2002

15 years

Modern Endangered Archives Program

To support a grant programme to digitize endangered printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the 20th and 21st centuries, and make the digitized materials freely available online.

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$13,000,000

2022

8 years

Modern Endangered Archives Program

To support a grant programme to digitize endangered printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the 20th and 21st centuries and make the digitized materials freely available online.

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$5,500,000

2018

6 years

Endangered Landscapes & Seascapes Programme

To support a grant programme to support large-scale projects to restore biodiversity-rich terrestrial and marine habitats across Europe at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

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$71,648,800

2023

8 years

Endangered Landscapes Programme

To support a grant programme to support large-scale projects to restore biodiversity-rich habitats across Europe at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

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$35,059,365

2020

10 years

Endangered Landscapes Programme

To support a grant programme to support large-scale projects to restore biodiversity-rich habitats across Europe at the Cambridge Conservation Initiative.

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$31,436,821

2017

7 years