Grants Database

Democracy Fund collaborates with our grantees, donors, and other partners to strengthen and expand the movement for an inclusive, multiracial democracy. We are proud to have supported more than 400 organizations doing this work.

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Organization Name (A-Z) Grant Amount Type Program Area Year
  • Institute for Nonprofit News
  • $900,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2019

This renewal grant will provide general operating support for the Institute for Nonprofit News. The Institute for Nonprofit News is a critical anchor organization, providing support, training and networking for America’s almost 250 nonprofit journalism organizations.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Nov 2022

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
  • $500,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2019

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) as it conducts research, raises awareness, and works with partners to enable more understanding of the American Muslim community.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2019 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2020

To support the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding’s (ISPU) collaboration with the Pulitzer Center on covering the American Muslims confidently, creatively, and fairly. 

Project:

Covering American Muslims Confidently, Creatively and Fairly - a Collaboration between ISPU and the Pulitzer Center

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training, Other

Grant Length:

Mar 2020 to Jun 2021

Strategy:

General
  • Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
  • $75,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2017

To provide general operating support for the Institute of Social Policy and Understanding as they seek to continue to conduct research around the American Muslim community, the challenges the communities face, and to produce a series of online training for media professionals that are covering issues effecting the community.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other, Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Jun 2017 to May 2018

Strategy:

General
  • Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2018

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) as it conducts research, raises awareness, and works with partners to better understand the American Muslim community. 

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2018 to Aug 2019

Strategy:

General
  • Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
  • $255,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) conducts research, raises awareness, and works with partners to better understand the American Muslim community.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2023 to Aug 2025

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Instituto Lab LLC
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • President's Office
  • 2023

Instituto’s mission is to build sustained political power with low-income and communities of color in Arizona. They believe that every community has the inherent leadership, capacity, and resources to create their own solutions, and that all it takes to build power is to facilitate connections and training.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Interfaith Youth Core
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2019

To support Interfaith Youth Core’s Alumni Fellowship Program. The organization will provide fellowships to at least five individuals from their alumni network to create innovative new interfaith civic engagement projects focused on promoting pluralism in their communities. 

Project:

Interfaith Innovation Fellowship Program

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2020

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Interfaith Youth Core
  • $60,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

The Interfaith Innovation Fellows program provides training and funding for Interfaith Youth Core Alumni who are leading projects at the intersection of racial equity and interfaith cooperation.

Project:

Support for Interfaith Fellowship Program

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Apr 2021 to Mar 2022

Strategy:

General
  • International Refugee Assistance Project Inc.
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2019

To provide project support to the International Refugee Assistance Project’s (IRAP) family reunification, community lawyering, and impact litigation work.  

Project:

Project Support for IRAP

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

General
  • International Refugee Assistance Project Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) works for a more humane, efficient, and welcoming refugee and asylum processes in the United States by empowering displaced persons to use the law as a tool to claim their rights, through an aligned program of legal aid, impact litigation, and advocacy.

Project:

Project support to IRAP

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • International Women's Media Foundation
  • $400,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) is the only global organization built to serve the holistic needs of women and nonbinary journalists. They are a bold and inclusive organization that supports journalists where they are with awards, reporting opportunities, fellowships, grants, safety training and emergency aid.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Aug 2023 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • International Women's Media Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The International Women’s Media Foundation’s Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund offers stipends to women-identifying Black journalists facing financial hardship to access critical mental health services.

Project:

Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Jul 2022 to Jun 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • International Women's Media Foundation
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

International Women’s Media Foundation’s Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund offers stipends to women-identifying Black journalists facing financial hardship to access critical mental health services.

Project:

Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media

Grant Length:

Oct 2020 to Jan 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Internet Archive
  • $49,634.00
  • Network Grant
  • General and Field Building
  • 2015

The purpose of this grant is to train journalists on using the Internet Archive’s new digital library resources of political ads and television news.

Project:

Political TV Ad Archive 2016

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2015 to Dec 2016

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Internet Archive
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2016

The Political TV Ad Archive provides a searchable, viewable, and shareable online archive of 2016 political TV ads, with fact-checking and reporting citizens can trust. The project is open source and available on Github.

Project:

Political TV Ad Archive 2016 II

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance

Grant Length:

Sep 2016 to Aug 2017

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Internet Archive
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2014

The Sunlight Foundation, Philadelphia’s Committee of Seventy, and the Internet Archive will be matching up the political ads with FCC-mandated public inspection file data from each station to uncover which groups paid how much for each political ad.

Project:

Philadelphia Media Ecosystem Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance

Grant Length:

Oct 2014 to Sep 2015

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Internews Network
  • $225,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2018

Internews is an organization working to ensure access to trusted, quality information that empowers people to have a voice in their future and to live healthy, secure, and rewarding lives. The purpose of this grant is to support the Listening Post Collective,  a multi-city project that seeks to offer resources, tools, peer-to-peer support and a shared learning space for journalists, newsroom leaders and community groups looking to revitalize their local news and information ecosystems. 

Project:

Listening Post Collective

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2018 to Nov 2020

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Internews Network
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Listening Post Collective, a project of Internews, uses strategy and capacity building for local and community news primarily led by and serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, to build engaged and trusted journalism. Their programs focus on news deserts and place-based community media systems.

Project:

Listening Post Collective

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Internews Network
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Listening Post Collective, a project of Internews, uses strategy and capacity building for local and community news primarily led by and serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, to build engaged and trusted journalism. Their programs focus on news deserts and place-based community media systems.

Project:

Listening Post Collective

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Apr 2024 to Dec 2025

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
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