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.
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2015
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2014
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2014
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$100,000
2014
1 year
Advancing open access
To further open access to scholarly and cultural materials
$81,060
2014
1 year
Documentation of Kalmyk heritage
To document the endangered cultural heritage of the Kalmyks and Oirats, and to create an open-access digital archive of this material.
$1,207,965
2014
5 years
Core costs
To digitize and give open access to legal documents, technical standards and safety standards that should be in the public domain.
$200,000
2014
2 years
History of Jewish Mysticism and Esotericism
To support the research and publication of Professor Joseph Dan's multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism and esotericism.
$222,600
2014
3 years
Wildlife Defence Programme
To enforce the laws that protect European wildlife and habitats through targeted litigation and other legal interventions, supported and complemented by strategic advocacy and capacity building with partners across Europe.
$1,459,073
2014
3 years
Sinai Palimpsest Project open access online publication
To provide open access online publication of multispectral images produced by the Sinai Palimpsest Project, which documents the manuscripts in St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai
$200,000
2014
2 years
Documentation of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa.
To create a database of endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on the ground survey.
$1,964,055
2014
3 years
Conservation training in Africa
To train African biodiversity conservation professionals.
$486,358
2014
3 years
Coastal conservation in West Africa
To campaign against large-scale, illegal and undocumented fishing in West African coastal waters.
$450,000
2014
4 years
Documenting Mandaean rituals and religious traditions
To document the rituals and priestly knowledge of the Mandaeans and to make the records available for free online.
$348,556
2014
3 years
The Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History
To endow the Ronald J. Mellor Chair in Ancient History
$5,000,000
2014
1 year
Operating and acquisition costs
To preserve, catalogue and digitise Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.
$5,000,000
2014
5 years
Support for the University of California Berkeley Library
$5,000,000
2014
2 years