[2] The organisation believes that "once memories, knowledge, skills, variety, and intricacy disappear – once the old complexities are lost – they are hard to replicate or replace" and consequently want to "build a vibrant, resilient, green future".

Additionally, it intends to supply environmental grants to organizations that preserve endangered habitats at risk land as well as trains staff and enable research and policy development.

It also aims to provide open access grants to increase obtention of free material such online as research papers and publications.

[8] Arcadia's largest grant, totalling £20 million (US$33,851,813), was given in 2002 to the School of Oriental and African Studies to start the Endangered Language Documentation Program (ELDP).

[9] In 2004, the fund founded the Endangered Archives Program at the British Library with a $25 million grant supporting the digitisation of at risk collections around the world.

[11] In 2013 and 2015 provide $1 million to the Smithsonian Institution's collaboration with the Natural History Museum's 'Recovering Voices Initiative', a long-term project to digitise audio recordings, manuscripts and photographs.

Through the ELP, the CCI and 9 other conservation organisations aimed to restore priority landscape across Europe in an attempt to support viable populations of native species, provide room for natural ecological processes, and improve resilience of ecosystems to short or long term changes.

The review concluded that "The report clearly recognises the invaluable role that Arcadia has played in helping FFI evolve into the organisation it is today, by providing long-term and flexible funding for a considerable and effective body of work.

"[17] Their first grant in 2011 helped develop the Halcyon Marine Programme, which operates across 72 sites in 17 countries, engaging 88 partners and 35 community-based institutions.

It will also help to catalogue and digitise documents on Harvard's history, and to run the Library Lab programme to improve digital services.

[6] In September 2015, the fund provided $450,000 over three years to Creative Commons to develop tools that complement current CC licence suite.

It supported organisations that helped refugee scholars, educated disadvantaged children in Africa, and conducted women's rights advocacy.

[7] Arcadia has provided a total of $6 million in 2005–2006 to the Human Rights Watch (US) to help their empirical research into persecution of women, and its fact gathering, press releases, advocacy and lobbying.