Arcadia Fund

Other, England

Also known as Lisbet Rausing Charitable Fund

United Kingdom

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Given in 2025 $51.1m

Typical grant $553k Middle half $127k to $2.5m

New grantees in 2025 41% first grant from this funder

Giving by year

$84.0m 2017 19

$96.6m 2018 29

$90.1m 2019 46

$55.6m 2020 35

£15.1m 2021 102

£19.7m 2022 83

£4.5m 2023 78

£5.9m 2024 65

$51.1m 2025 38

£22.6m 2026 34

41% of 2025 grantees were new to this funder 51% of grantees are funded again within three years

Amount and number of grants we hold records for in each year, which can be less than everything the funder gave. The current year is incomplete.

Where it gives

London 135 grants · typical £25k

California 118 grants · typical $471k

South East 64 grants · typical £25k

East of England 56 grants · typical $1.5m

New York 53 grants · typical $704k

Massachusetts 27 grants · typical $750k

Scotland 25 grants · typical £42k

District of Columbia 21 grants · typical $950k

Top local authority areas

Westminster 41 grants · typical £10k

Cambridge 21 grants · typical $3.4m

Camden 19 grants · typical $1.8m

Kensington and Chelsea 18 grants · typical £25k

City of Edinburgh 11 grants · typical £42k

Islington 10 grants · typical $1.1m

Tower Hamlets 10 grants · typical £90k

Brighton and Hove 8 grants · typical £10k

City of London 7 grants · typical £1.8m

Wealden 7 grants · typical £25k

All years we hold. Grants with no recorded place are left out.

Latest grants made

The University of California, Los Angeles United States Modern Endangered Archives Program capacity increase $2.0m 1 Oct 2026

Universitat Pompeu Fabra Spain Mapping Archaeological Pre-Columbian Heritage in South America €3.0m 1 Oct 2026

Wikimedia Endowment United States Towards the Wikimedia endowment $1.0m 15 Jul 2026

National Centre for Biological Sciences India Documenting the contemporary history of science in India $1.8m 1 Jul 2026

Hill Museum and Manuscript Library United States Digitization of manuscripts in Africa, the Middle East, South Asia, and the Balkans $5.0m 1 Jul 2026

Dikan Center Digitization of West African archives $100k 1 Jun 2026

Historic Environment Scotland Digitisation of historic aerial photographs from the Middle East and North Africa £405k 1 May 2026

Fundación Alejandro Ángel Escobar Colombia Biodiversa fund $500k 30 Apr 2026

Global Impact United States Legacy Landscapes Fund advocacy €117k 30 Apr 2026

Scottish Wildlife Trust Ecological restoration of Inverbroom £1.6m 1 Apr 2026

Data: Contains grants data published by UK grantmakers via 360Giving GrantNav. Each award names its publisher and licence. (CC BY 4.0, OGL v3.0 or CC0 1.0, as published by each funder (CC BY-SA data excluded)); ARCADIA, via 360Giving GrantNav