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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Strategic

Grant recipient

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2021

1 year

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2021

1 year

Towards the costs of running the museum

Towards the costs of running the museum.

$100,000

2021

1 year

Advancing open access

To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.

$100,000

2021

1 year

Desert of the Mamluks documentation project

To document endangered built heritage and oral traditions in the ‘Desert of the Mamluks’ in Cairo’s ‘City of the Dead’ necropolis, and make the resulting materials freely available online.

$79,730

2021

1 year

Maritime Asia Heritage Survey

To document endangered heritage sites from Maritime Southern Asia: Thailand, Indonesia and the Maldives, and make the results freely available online.

$6,253,809

2020

5 years

Core funding

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

$5,000,000

2020

5 years

Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property

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

Reforms to Deliver the Right to Culture, Learning and Research through Libraries

To promote copyright law reform and regulation at EU and national level to enable libraries to facilitate greater access to and use of copyrighted works for cultural, educational and research purposes.

$3,630,000

2020

3 years

Nepal Heritage Documentation Project

To document monuments and heritage objects in the Kathmandu Valley and make the resulting materials freely available online.

$3,006,209

2020

6 years

Intelligence and action against wildlife trade (ReTTA Phase II)

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.

$3,000,000

2020

5 years

Mongolia Heritage Sites Survey

To create a publicly accessible database of endangered archaeological heritage in Mongolia using satellite imagery and on-the-ground survey.

$2,423,967

2020

5 years

Forest campaign

To constrain the role of finance in the destruction of climate-critical tropical forests and related human rights abuses. This is vital for combatting global climate change and meeting the Sustainable Development Goals.

$1,995,000

2020

3 years

Palestinian Museum Digital Archive

To digitize endangered, dispersed and inaccessible collections of documents, photographs, videos and ephemeral materials representing the culture and history of Palestine from 1800 to the present and to make them freely available online.

$1,900,000

2020

3 years

OA.Works

To support the ‘Open Access Button’ project to help libraries improve users’ access to research articles.

$1,870,000

2020

4 years

Digitizing historical Swedish newspapers II

To digitize Swedish newspapers that are out of copyright (1645-1906) and make them freely available online.

$1,800,000

2020

2 years

Core costs

To support Open Syllabus in its mission to gather and analyse academic syllabi and make this information freely available online.

$1,500,000

2020

3 years

Strategic influence on digital policy making in the EU

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

$1,177,050

2020

4 years

Crisis Support Fund

To establish an emergency response fund to support Fauna & Flora’s partner organizations which were affected by COVID-19.

$1,039,316

2020

1 year

Earth Journalism Network - Biodiversity Media Initiative

To support local journalists to investigate and report worldwide on the threats to biodiversity and nature-based solutions.

$750,000

2020

3 years