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 August 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 funding
To support Public.Resource.Org's work to make edicts of government freely available online.
$5,000,000
2025
6 years
To build and protect strong legislative mechanisms for nature conservation and restoration in Europe.
To support sound implementation of nature legislation in Europe, with a focus on forest resilience.
$2,754,000
2025
2.5 years
Library Futures
To support librarians, policymakers, and community leaders to get fair access to digital content and services.
$2,500,000
2025
4 years
The IOI Fund for Network Adoption
To establish a grant programme to fund networks that support open access to research.
$1,800,000
2025
4 years
Arches Endowment
To support the Arches open-source software platform, including the software’s maintenance and technology upgrades, ongoing enhancements, and advancing the capacity of the world-wide open-source community to implement Arches.
$1,500,000
2025
1 year
Legacy Landscapes Fund Learning Event
To support the costs of a workshop for Legacy Landscape Fund's partners to encourage collaboration and knowledge sharing.
$54,000
2025
1 year
Enabling digital access to books
To improve discovery and availability of digital books via libraries, build a corpus of freely- or easily-accessible digital books; pilot and scale innovative models to negotiate rights to serve more books digitally; and identify more titles to make available digitally.
$15,000,000
2024
3 years
OpenAlex: a free index for the world's research
To support the growth, development and institutional use of an open and comprehensive index of scholarly works, authors and institutions.
$7,500,000
2024
5 years
Mapping Africa's Endangered Archaeological Sites and Monuments
To carry out large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Sub-Saharan Africa and to make the results freely available online.
$7,125,000
2024
5 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
The Knowledge Rights 21 Programme (phase II)
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.
$6,050,000
2024
5 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
Eternal Mongolia - Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund
To complete the match fund for a newly established Mongolia Conservation Trust Fund which will oversee the Eternal Mongolia Project Finance for Permanence initiative.
$6,000,000
2024
5 years
Mapping the Archaeological Heritage of South Asia
To undertake the large-scale documentation of heritage sites in Pakistan and north-western India and to make the results freely available online.
$5,750,000
2024
5 years
Core support
Core support for TRAFFIC’s work to reduce illegal and unsustainable trade in wild species, and increase social, economic, and environmental benefits for people though legal and sustainable trade in wild species.
$5,240,000.41
2024
6 years
Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa
To document endangered archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa using satellite imagery and on-the-ground surveys and make the data freely available online.
$2,750,000
2024
3 years
Underground Explorers Programme
To support the programme's work to map and protect soil fungal diversity.
$1,500,000
2024
3 years
Maritime Endangered Archaeology in the Middle East and North Africa
To document endangered maritime archaeological heritage in the Middle East and North Africa and to make the data freely available online.
$1,499,990
2024
3 years
Preserving the Full Legacy of Yiddish Poet A. N. Stencl
To collect and digitize endangered archival material related to the Yiddish poet Abraham Nahum Stencl (1897-1983) and make the results freely available online.
$314,763
2024
2 years
Towards the Wikimedia endowment
To contribute to an endowment fund to support the work of the Wikimedia projects in perpetuity.
$250,000
2024
1 year