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.
Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property
American University Washington College of Law
https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/initiatives-programs/pijip/
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
Project on Copyright and the Right to Research
For research and advocacy at the World Intellectual Property Office to secure reforms for greater access to scholarly research through exceptions to copyright law.
$6,500,000
2024
5 years
Developing a new sustainable membership model
To develop training resources for academic authors who want to publish open access.
$500,000
2018
2 years
The Lumen Database
To support the Lumen database, which collects and analyses legal complaints and requests for removal of online materials.
$1,500,000
2019
3 years
COMMUNIA International Association for the Public Domain
To develop policies and legal strategies to expand and strengthen the public domain, ensuring that everyone can always freely reuse public domain content.
$3,570,000
2022
8 years
Advancing open access at galleries, libraries, archives, and museums
To help more of the world’s public art galleries, libraries, archives and museums make their collections data and images freely available under Creative Commons licences or waivers.
$5,000,000
2021
5 years
control ©
To advance all forms of freedom of communication, wherever these are unduly constrained by copyright and information laws.
$452,200
2021
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
Strengthening open access in the USA.
To support policy and advocacy work to improve open access to research outputs in the United States and support academic community control of key research communication infrastructure.
$500,000
2021
3 years
Strengthening open access in the USA
To support policy and advocacy work to improve open access to research outputs in the United States.
$6,000,000
2024
6 years
FragDenStaat: Democratising Public Databases
To make German government documents and unfairly restricted information freely available online.
$1,205,100
2023
4 years
Liberating species descriptions from in-copyright journal articles
To support work to extract taxonomic data from scientific publications and make them findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), and to promote the resulting repository as the standard in the taxonomic community.
$1,298,000
2018
3 years
Liberating taxonomic treatments
To support work to extract taxonomic data from scientific publications and make them findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR), and to promote the resulting repository as the standard in the taxonomic community.
$1,785,000
2022
3 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
Core funding
To support Public.Resource.Org’s work to make legal statutes and technical and safety standards freely available online.
$1,500,000
2018
3 years
Achieving open access through copyright reform
To support research, publication and advocacy for global copyright reform to provide greater access to academic research.
$165,000
2019
2 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