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 March 2025). 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.
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
Fauna & Flora International
http://cms.fauna-flora.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/2020_FFI_Partner-Crisis-Support-Fund.pdf
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
Global Urban Alliance
International Union for Conservation of Nature
https://iucn.org/news/secretariat/201809/iucn-launches-global-alliance-greener-cities
To establish a global alliance to develop and promote a standard set of indicators on urban ecosystem health that enable cities to identify the challenges of becoming greener environments and evaluate their efforts to do so.
$434,700
2020
3 years
Advancing open access
To help support general management, staff, IT equipment and training, fundraising, and governance.
$250,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$200,000
2020
1 year
Conservation Evidence
To publish and make widely available evidence-based conservation strategies to help conservation practitioners make effective decisions.
$177,672
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Towards the costs of running the museum.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$100,000
2020
1 year
Advancing open access
To promote open access to scholarly and cultural materials.
$99,750
2020
1 year
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.
$70,000
2020
2 years
Nature's Strongholds programme
To support long-term conservation by establishing or expanding protected areas and strengthening conservation of the most important existing wilderness areas.
$20,000,000
2019
4 years
Acquisition of six properties in Argentina and Chile
To acquire properties of strategic value in Argentina and Chile to expand existing park areas, rewild degraded landscapes and advance biodiversity conservation.
$15,100,000
2019
5 years
Wende endowment
Towards a permanent endowment for the Wende Museum with proceeds specifically for collections care and acquisitions.
$7,500,000
2019
10 years
Core support to Conservation Leadership Programme
To increase the overall impact and ensure the long-term sustainability of the Conservation Leadership Programme.
$5,999,917
2019
6 years
Mapping Africa's endangered sites and monuments
To carry out large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results freely available online.
$4,249,600
2019
3 years