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.
Digital library for the study of Africa
To build an online library of scholarly resources and make it freely available online to users from African institutions.
$2,500,000
2007
1 year
Open Syllabus Project
To support the Open Syllabus Project in building the first large-scale online database of titles of works used in millions of university course syllabi.
$220,000
2016
1 year
Open Access Book Prizes
To set up and run a prize programme for authors and publishers of open access academic books.
$1,600,000
2022
6 years
Towards the Centennial Campaign
To extend the reach of the Council’s fellowship programme.
$2,000,000
2017
4 years
Tools to Advance Research Assessment (TARA)
To accelerate research assessment reform by undertaking analysis and creating tools and resources to help institutions in the United States and Europe.
$1,200,000
2021
3 years
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
American University Washington College of Law
https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/pijip/
For research and advocacy at the World Intellectual Property Office to secure reforms for greater access to scholarly research through exceptions to copyright law.
$3,800,000
2020
3 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
Offline Internet Consortium
To provide access to online materials to communities with no internet access.
$300,000
2022
3 years
Reading and Writing Gallery
To showcase the origins and development of reading and writing across cultures, from the fourth century BC to the printing press.
$1,747,700
2006
1 year
Survey of digital resources in African universities
To assess the need for, and improve engagement with, digital resources in African universities.
$105,798
2009
1 year
Developing a new sustainable membership model
To develop training resources for academic authors who want to publish open access.
$500,000
2018
2 years
To support the Bard core endowment
Towards the core endowment in recognition of the Bard Network’s work.
$5,000,000
2021
1 year
The Lumen Database
To support the Lumen database, which collects and analyses legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials.
$1,500,000
2019
3 years
Conservation of birds and their habitats
To support BirdLife partners in high-biodiversity countries and to help them protect priority species and habitats.
$1,800,000
2013
6 years
Conservation of birds and their habitats
To support BirdLife partners in high-biodiversity countries and to help them protect priority species and habitats.
$1,500,000
2009
5 years
Open Library of Humanities & Janeway
To strengthen open access to scholarly work in the humanities disciplines, allowing everyone the freedom to access academic research.
$276,000
2021
2 years
Refuseniks & Activists: The Soviet Jewish Emigration Project
To collate and digitize primary sources on the Soviet Jewish diaspora from disparate collections and make them freely available online.
$200,000
2023
2 years
Support for Blue Ventures’ core operations.
Core support for Blue Ventures’ to help it achieve its mission to rebuild tropical fisheries with coastal communities.
$2,500,000
2022
5 years
Documenting cultural heritage in the Cook Islands and Niue - pilot study
For a pilot project to test remote sensing techniques and existing in-country data for documenting cultural heritage on the islands.
$87,079.20
2022
1 year
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.
$16,960,153
2004
13 years