OUR GRANTS

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.

Arcadia Fund 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.

You can search below for details of all our grants. Our grants data is also available in xlsx format here.




Displaying 81 to 120 of 433 grants

  • Organization
  • Project
  • Programme
  • Focus
  • Awarded
  • Status
  • Amount
  • Organization

    Getty Conservation Institute

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Heritage Sites

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $325,000

    Start

    2021
    To develop a new software module for the Arches data management platform

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://getty.edu/conservation
  • Organization

    The Wildlife Justice Commission

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $1,190,000

    Start

    2021
    To conduct intelligence-led, undercover investigations to gather evidence, working closely with law enforcement agencies to support the investigation and prosecution of high-level wildlife crime cases.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://wildlifejustice.org/
  • Organization

    European Open Rivers Programme

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $50,575,000

    Start

    2021
    To restore endangered European rivers by supporting interventions that lead to the removal of dams and the restoration of river flow and biodiversity

    Grant duration: 6 years

    https://openrivers.eu/online/
  • Organization

    Forest Peoples Programme

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $1,380,000

    Start

    2021
    To support the Forest Peoples Programme’s (FPP) environmental governance programme and its efforts to protect terrestrial biodiversity.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://www.forestpeoples.org/
  • Organization

    Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $1,000,000

    Start

    2021
    To provide robust legal, scientific, and organizational support to help lawyers in under-resourced regions win legal victories that protect biodiversity, and to build local capacity to protect biodiversity in years to come.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://www.elaw.org
  • Organization

    Maritime Archaeology & Heritage Institute

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Heritage Sites

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $495,353

    Start

    2021
    To develop a publicly accessible inventory of maritime archaeological resources in Pakistan to enable future scientific research and effective heritage management.

    Grant duration: 2 years

    https://www.mahi.org.pk/
  • Organization

    Borderland Foundation

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2021
    Towards supporting Borderland (Fundacja Pogranicze) and its programmes.

    Grant duration: 4 years

    https://www.pogranicze.sejny.pl/
  • Organization

    Wildlife Conservation Society

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2022
    To provide Legacy Landscapes Fund with match funding for Wildlife Conservation Society's (WCS) Leuser Ecosystem bid in Sumatra, Indonesia.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://legacylandscapes.org/
  • Organization

    Yale University

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Library-led

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2021
    Towards advancing open access

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://library.yale.edu/
  • Organization

    Harvard University

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Library-led

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2021
    Towards advancing open access

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://library.harvard.edu/
  • Organization

    University of Cambridge

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Library-led

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $103,500

    Start

    2021
    Towards advancing open access

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://www.lib.cam.ac.uk/
  • Organization

    New York Public Library

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Library-led

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $200,000

    Start

    2021
    Towards advancing open access

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://www.nypl.org/
  • Organization

    Wikimedia Foundation Inc

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Open Access: Other

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $250,000

    Start

    2021
    To help support general management, staff, IT equipment and training, fundraising and governance.

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://wikimediafoundation.org/
  • Organization

    University of California, Berkeley

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Library-led

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2021
    To build responsible access workflows for copyright and information policy. This grant ensures that Berkeley can continue helping scholars to use, create, and publish scholarship in ways that promote dissemination, accessibility, and impact.

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://www.lib.berkeley.edu/
  • Organization

    UCLA Library

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Library-led

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2021
    Towards the publication of open access monographs, and to further open access initiatives by membership and participation in other organizations advancing open access.

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://www.library.ucla.edu/
  • Organization

    Wende Museum

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Culture: Other

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2021
    Towards the costs of running the Wende Museum

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://wendemuseum.org
  • Organization

    Wende Museum

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Culture: Other

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $1,500,000

    Start

    2021
    Towards preserving, documenting and providing access to historical materials relating to Soviet Jewry, the Refusenik movement and the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://wendemuseum.org
  • Organization

    Center for Jewish History

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Culture: Other

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $2,000,000

    Start

    2021
    To support the salary of the Chief Development Officer and associated costs

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://cjh.org/
  • Organization

    Center for Jewish History

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $73,500

    Start

    2022
    To provide AV equipment to support hybrid meetings at the Center for Jewish History

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://www.cjh.org/
  • Organization

    UNEP-WCMC

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2021
    Towards the core costs of the Protected Planet platform

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://www.unep-wcmc.org/en/protected-planet
  • Organization

    Oceans 5

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $6,000,000

    Start

    2021
    To support Oceans 5, an international funders’ regranting collaborative dedicated to protecting the world’s ocean

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://oceans5.org
  • Organization

    Pesticide Action Network UK

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $110,400

    Start

    2021
    Supporting the pesticide free towns campaign

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://www.pan-uk.org/pesticide-free/
  • Organization

    Wikimedia Foundation (Tides)

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Open Access: Other

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $1,000,000

    Start

    2021
    Towards the core Wikimedia Endowment

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://wikimediaendowment.org/
  • Organization

    Wikimedia Foundation (Tides)

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Open Access: Other

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2021

    Amount

    $1,000,000

    Start

    2021
    Towards the core Wikimedia Endowment

    Grant duration: 1 years

    https://wikimediaendowment.org/
  • Organization

    Kyoto University

    Programme

    Culture

    Focus

    Heritage Sites

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $6,253,809

    Start

    2020
    To document endangered heritage sites, inland and coastal, in the region from the Cham coast of Vietnam, through Indonesia, Brunei, and Sri Lanka to the Maldives.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/
  • Organization

    Global Witness

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $1,995,000

    Start

    2020
    To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses, which is vital to combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://www.globalwitness.org/en/campaigns/forests/
  • Organization

    Internews

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $750,000

    Start

    2020
    To support the capacity-building of local journalists to investigate and report worldwide on the threats to biodiversity and conservation-based solutions.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    http://earthjournalism.net/projects/biodiversity-media-initiative
  • Organization

    TRAFFIC

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Governance

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $3,000,000

    Start

    2020
    To strengthen actions to reduce the illegal and unsustainable trade of African wild species to Asia through data gathering, information sharing, engagement and innovative interventions.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    https://traffic.org/what-we-do/projects-and-approaches/supporting-law-enforcement/retta/
  • Organization

    Open Syllabus

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Open Access: Other

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $1,500,000

    Start

    2020
    To enable Open Syllabus to fully explore its potential to support open learning, curricular design, student mobility, research on fields and intellectual history, and other aspects of higher education.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    http://opensyllabus.org/
  • Organization

    Public.Resource.Org

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Intellectual Property Rights

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $5,000,000

    Start

    2020
    To enable Public.Resource.Org to expand its work in three key areas: edicts of government, text and data mining and access to knowledge.

    Grant duration: 5 years

    http://public.resource.org/
  • Organization

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $50,000

    Start

    2020
    To support the development of the field of knowledge about foundations as institutions.

    Grant duration: 2 years

    https://rockpa.org/project/theory-of-the-foundation/
  • Organization

    Fauna & Flora International

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    On-site Conservation

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $1,039,316

    Start

    2020
    To establish an emergency response fund to support their partners on the ground most affected by COVID19.

    Grant duration: 1 years

    http://cms.fauna-flora.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2020_FFI_Partner-Crisis-Support-Fund.pdf
  • Organization

    Code for Science and Society

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Discoverability

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $1,870,000

    Start

    2020
    To support the Open Access Button in three key areas: to meet proven demand for tools that give libraries leverage in big deals; to compete with for-profit access tools; and to lower the cost of making papers open access.

    Grant duration: 4 years

    http://openaccessbutton.org/
  • Organization

    United Nations Foundation

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $500,000

    Start

    2020
    To support the global response to the COVID19 crisis.

    Grant duration: 1 years

    http://covid19responsefund.org/en/
  • Organization

    International Union for Conservation of Nature

    Programme

    Environment

    Focus

    Leadership

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $434,699

    Start

    2020
    To establish a global Urban Alliance under the auspices of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). The project will develop and promote a standard set of indicators on urban ecosystem health that enable cities to identify challenges and evaluate the effectiveness of their efforts to become greener environments.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://iucn.org/news/secretariat/201809/iucn-launches-global-alliance-greener-cities
  • Organization

    Chickenshed NYC

    Programme

    Discretionary

    Focus

    Discretionary

    Status

    Complete

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $100,000

    Start

    2020
    Towards the theatre's running costs.

    Grant duration: 1 years

    http://chickenshed.org.uk/nyc
  • Organization

    International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Intellectual Property Rights

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $3,630,000

    Start

    2021
    To bring reforms to copyright law and regulation that enable libraries to provide greater possibilities to access and use of copyrighted works. To promote reform at the European and national levels, and provide valuable examples for the rest of the world

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://www.knowledgerights21.org/
  • Organization

    Swedish National Archives

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Open Access: Other

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $1,800,000

    Start

    2021
    To complete the digitization of the National Library of Sweden’s (NLS) holdings of all Swedish historical newspapers up to 1906.

    Grant duration: 2 years

    http://tidningar.kb.se/
  • Organization

    Stichting Open Future

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Intellectual Property Rights

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $1,177,050

    Start

    2020
    To set up and support a strategic advocacy organisation that will increase the capacity of the open movement to strategically influence digital policy making in the European Union.

    Grant duration: 4 years

    https://www.openfuture.eu/
  • Organization

    American University Washington College of Law

    Programme

    Open Access

    Focus

    Intellectual Property Rights

    Status

    Live

    Awarded

    2020

    Amount

    $3,800,000

    Start

    2021
    The project will produce high impact research, provide training to a global network of change makers, and connect a global expert network to a global community of researchers, libraries, museums, archives and digital rights activists active in international copyright policy making.

    Grant duration: 3 years

    https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/pijip/
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