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.
Towards making materials on Danish Jewish in World War II available to wider audiences
Network for the Study of Nazism and the Holocaust
https://www.sdu.dk/da/om_sdu/institutter_centre/ih/forskning/forskningsnetvaerk/nnhs
To translate a website and exhibits on Danish Jews deportees to Theresienstadt into Czech, English, German and Swedish.
$26,100
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
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.
$100,000
2021
1 year
Strengthening open access in the USA.
To secure a national open access policy requiring immediate open access to all US federally-funded research outputs; to promote measurable changes in the ways universities and research funders incentivise and reward the open sharing of research outputs; and to catalyze actions to secure academic community control of key research communication infrastructure.
$500,000
2021
3 years
Tools to Advance Research Assessment (TARA)
To accelerate research assessment reform by undertaking analysis and creating tools and resources to help institutions improve research assessment in the United States and Europe.
$1,200,000
2021
3 years
Internationalization of Arches data management platform software
To develop a new software module for the Arches data management platform
$325,000
2021
1 year
The next generation of Massachusetts Institute of Technology OpenCourseWare
To expand OpenCourseWare access and deliver engaging experiences for the many millions of smartphone-based learners. The project aims to increase OCW’s capacity to produce more rich media; reach more learners and offer more socially relevant content; and to launch new collaborations across the Open Educational Resources (OER) community to advance educational equity.
$100,000
2021
1 year
To support the Bard core endowment
Towards the core endowment in recognition of the Bard Network's work.
$5,000,000
2021
1 year
Towards work on soil carbon sequestration.
To develop a scientific foundation for agricultural soil carbon credits.
$2,500,000
2021
4 years
Conservation Evidence
To help conservation practitioners to make effective decisions by publishing and disseminating evidence-based conservation strategies.
$138,000
2021
1 year
Desert of the Mamluks documentation project
Towards the documentation of endangered built heritage and oral traditions in the ‘Desert of the Mamluks’, part of Cairo’s ‘City of the Dead’ necropolis.
$79,730
2021
1 year
Advancing open access
Towards the publication of open access monographs, and to further open access initiatives by membership and participation in other organizations advancing open access.
$100,000
2021
1 year
European Open Rivers Programme
The Open Rivers Programme gives grants for work to remove redundant dams, weirs and other river barriers across Europe, so that rivers can flow naturally and biodiversity can flourish.
Learn more$50,575,000
2021
6 years
Oceans 5 Partnership
Oceans 5 gives grants to help stop overfishing, establish marine protected areas, and constrain offshore oil and gas development. The programme supports projects that provide lasting benefits to coastal communities and the world’s oceans.
Learn more$6,000,000
2021
3 years
Pesticide Free Towns
Supporting the pesticide free towns campaign
$110,400
2021
1 year
Towards the Wikimedia Endowment
Towards the core Wikimedia Endowment
$1,000,000
2021
1 year
To support fundraising activities for the Center for Jewish History.
To support the salary of the Chief Development Officer and associated costs
$2,000,000
2021
1 year
Borderland Foundation core costs
Towards supporting Borderland (Fundacja Pogranicze) and its programmes.
$100,000
2021
4 years
Protected Planet
Towards the core costs of the Protected Planet platform
$5,000,000
2021
5 years
Soviet Jewry project
Towards preserving, documenting and providing access to historical materials relating to Soviet Jewry, the Refusenik movement and the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora
$1,500,000
2021
3 years
Advancing open access
$100,000
2021
1 year