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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Refuseniks & Activists: The Soviet Jewish Emigration Project

Towards digitizing primary sources on the Soviet Jewish diaspora from disparate collections, and making them freely accessible online.

$200,000

2023

2 years

The Einstein Papers Project

To continue the digitization and open access publication of Albert Einstein's papers

$300,000

2023

3 years

Endangered Archives Programme

The Endangered Archives Programme gives grants to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration. The programme supports projects that cover rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century. All of the digitized materials are freely available online.

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$18,000,000

2023

10 years

Trinity College Medieval Manuscripts

Towards the digitization of fourteen significant Medieval manuscripts in the collection of Trinity College Dublin

$200,000

2023

2 years

Modern Endangered Archives Program

The Modern Endangered Archives Program gives grants to digitize endangered archival materials from the 20th and 21st centuries. The programme supports projects that digitize printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the mid-20th century onwards. All of the digitized materials are freely available online.

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$13,000,000

2022

8 years

Documenting the contemporary history of science in India

To collect, preserve and make available online endangered cultural artefacts related to the contemporary (~200 years) history of science in South Asia. It will also develop a prototype tool for interpretation and access through linked open data and public annotation of archival material

$440,000

2022

3 years

Sinai Library Digitization Project

To digitize and publish online more of the remaining manuscripts of St. Catherine’s Monastery in Sinai beyond the Arabic and Syriac manuscripts digitized in phase I, as well as newly discovered palimpsests

$2,014,000

2022

3 years

Anticaste archives: Preserving historical and cultural memory

To digitize Dalit community and family archives in India, and to make these materials available in an open-access digital archive

$1,700,000

2022

5 years

DiPiKA - Digitization and Preservation of Kerala Archives

To survey and digitize some of the most important collections of palm-leaf manuscripts in the Thrissur and Ernakulam districts, Kerala, India in both institutional and family collections. These will be made available online in an open-access repository

$823,939

2022

5 years

California Language Archive

To provide core support to the California Language Archive at the University of California, Berkeley.

$500,000

2022

5 years

Digitization of manuscripts in Africa and Asia

To continue the Hill Museum & Manuscript Library’s work digitizing endangered manuscripts in Africa and Asia, and to make them available online in an open-access repository.

$5,492,813

2021

5 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 available in an open-access online archive.

$1,900,000

2020

3 years

"Maktoub" - Digital preservation and open access to Arabic and Islamic manuscripts and rare books

To digitize manuscripts and books, including the Yahuda collection and Arab-Palestinian collection, and make them freely available online with metadata in Arabic and English.

$780,485

2019

1 year

Wende archival digitization

Digitizing approximately 50,000 pages of the most important archival material held by the Wende and putting it online.

$450,000

2019

3 years

Modern Endangered Archives Program

The Modern Endangered Archives Program gives grants to digitize endangered archival materials from the 20th and 21st centuries. The programme supports projects that digitize printed materials, manuscripts, photographs, audio-visual recordings and born-digital materials from the mid-20th century onwards. All of the digitized materials are freely available online.

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$5,500,000

2018

6 years

Endangered Archives Programme

The Endangered Archives Programme gives grants to digitize archives that are in danger of destruction, neglect or deterioration. The programme supports projects that cover rare printed sources, manuscripts, photographs, and audio recordings in all languages and scripts from all periods up to the mid-20th century. All of the digitized materials are freely available online.

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$11,970,000

2018

7 years

Digitization of Syriac and Arabic manuscripts in Saint Catherine Monastery, Sinai

To digitize and publish online the Arabic and Syriac manuscript codices of St. Catherine's Monastery in Sinai.

$980,051

2018

3 years

Digitization of manuscripts in South-East Asia

To fund large-scale digitization of manuscripts in maritime and mainland South-East Asia, and to make these available in an open-access online archive.

$2,173,500

2017

5 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 available in an open-access online archive.

$1,900,000

2017

3 years

Digitization of manuscripts in the Middle East and Africa

To digitize endangered manuscripts in libraries in the Middle East, Africa and India and to make them available for free online.

$4,000,000

2016

5 years

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