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
  • New York University
  • $151,800.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

This grant will support a project of GovLab, a program within the Tandon School of Engineering at New York University, to develop a handbook for congressional offices with techniques for increasing citizen voice in the policymaking process and improving constituent engagement through new technologies. The grant also will allow GovLab to pilot projects with several congressional offices for using open source software to test some of the techniques outlined in the handbook. 

Project:

GovLab Congressional CrowdLaw Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Oct 2018 to Jan 2020

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • New York University
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2019

To support the NYU Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue (IACD) as it organizes a convening entitled, “Radical Hospitality: Imagining Home for a Generation Displaced and Discarded – A Global Convening of Artists, Scholars, and Activists.” The convening will take place at La Pietra, the NYU academic center in Florence, Italy in 2020. 

Project:

RAD Support of Radical Hospitality Convening

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Nov 2021

Strategy:

General
  • New York University
  • $425,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To support the Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies’s project on Racial Targeting and Digital Marketing, which will research and disseminate findings related to the ways online environments target and potentially discriminate against non-white users. 

Project:

Researching Discriminatory Targeting

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2019 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • News Revenue Hub Inc.
  • $467,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

A grant to the News Revenue Hub to support expanded services and capacity building activities to strengthen the financial sustainability of their clients and the larger nonprofit news community. 

Project:

News Revenue Hub, a project of the Institute for Nonprofit News

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Sep 2017 to Nov 2018

Strategy:

Investigative Journalism
  • News Revenue Hub Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

News Revenue Hub supports journalism that improves lives — and fights misinformation.

Project:

General Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • News Revenue Hub Inc.
  • $970,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2018

This general operating grant will support the growth and expansion of the News Revenue Hub, which helps nonprofit newsrooms develop reader support models and build sustainable membership programs. Through this grant the News Revenue Hub will be able to build on its successful pilot year and further institutionalize the model they have developed, setting up a learning lab, brining on new clients and developing resources that serve the entire nonprofit journalism community. 

Project:

News Revenue Hub Renewal

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2018 to Oct 2022

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Next Century Cities
  • $350,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2015

To support a process to develop a competition between communities with access to next-generation networks (i.e. up to at least a gig to some premises) to leverage their internet capacity to promote stronger democratic processes and increase civic engagement. In short, Democracy on a Gig.

Project:

Democracy on a Gig

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Aug 2015 to Jul 2017

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • No Labels Foundation
  • $25,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2014

Support the professional development of senior management at No Labels Foundation to strengthen the organization and its management practices.

Project:

Professional Development for Senior Management

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Dec 2014 to Jun 2016

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • No Labels Foundation
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2014

A general operating grant to the No Labels Foundation will support the innovative work of the organization to reduce Congressional dysfunction and foster bipartisan problem solving.

Project:

No Labels Foundation 2014 Renewal

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Dec 2014 to Dec 2015

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • No Labels Foundation
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2015

A general operating grant to the No Labels Foundation will support the innovative work of the organization to reduce Congressional dysfunction and foster bipartisan problem solving.

Project:

No Labels Renewal 2015

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Dec 2015 to Nov 2016

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • No Labels Foundation
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2013

The No Labels Foundation seeks to convene policymakers, across party lines and at all levels of government, to provide fact based educational programming promoting trust and collaboration.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Apr 2013 to Jul 2014

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • No Labels Foundation
  • $40,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2013

Support an evaluation or assessment to better understand how the organization is performing.

Project:

Evaluation / Assessment Grant

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Apr 2013 to Apr 2014

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Nonprofit Vote
  • $75,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2018

The purpose of this grant is to support Nonprofit VOTE’s continued coordination of National Voter Registration Day. Nonprofit VOTE will work to recruit and empower local partners to register voters within their communities, while simultaneously launching a national media campaign to amplify those efforts.

Project:

National Voter Registration Day

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

Sep 2018 to Aug 2019

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Nonprofit Vote
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To provide support for Nonprofit VOTE’s coordination of their National Voter Registration Day (NVRD) project. Nonprofit VOTE will work to recruit and empower local partners to participate in NVRD and register voters, while simultaneously launching a national media campaign to amplify those efforts.

Project:

National Voter Registration Day II

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

Jul 2019 to Dec 2020

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Nonprofit Vote
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

This grant supports Nonprofit VOTE’s coordination of their National Voter Registration Day (NVRD). Nonprofit VOTE works to recruit, educate, and empower local partners to participate in NVRD and register voters, while simultaneous launching a national media campaign to amplify those efforts.

Project:

National Voter Registration Day III

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Feb 2021 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Nonzero Foundation Inc
  • $114,600.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2012

The Non-Zero Foundation’s Bloggingheads.tv will launch its “The Good Fight” project, which will feature video-based dialogues on hot political topics between important voices from the Left and the Right.

Project:

The Good Fight

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

Jul 2013 to Nov 2014

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Nonzero Foundation Inc
  • $110,400.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2012

The Non-Zero Foundation’s Bloggingheads.tv will launch its “The Good Fight” project, which will feature video-based dialogues on hot political topics between important voices from the Left and the Right.

Project:

The Good Fight

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

Apr 2012 to Apr 2013

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • North Carolina Community Foundation, Inc.
  • $950,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

The purpose of this grant is to support North Carolina’s local news and information ecosystem. The grant will create the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund at the North Carolina Community Foundation to support building a networked news ecosystem that is audience-centered, trusted, collaborative, and resilient.

Project:

North Carolina Local News Lab Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to Nov 2019

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • North Carolina Community Foundation, Inc.
  • $1,300,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

The North Carolina Local News Lab Fund at North Carolina Community Foundation provides support to the local news ecosystem with a focus on underserved communities and the organizations that serve them.

Project:

North Carolina Local News Lab Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2020 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • North Carolina Community Foundation, Inc.
  • $750,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To support North Carolina’s local news and information ecosystem through the North Carolina Local News Lab Fund at the North Carolina Community Foundation. The North Carolina Local News Lab Fund will support building a networked news ecosystem that is audience-centered, trusted, collaborative, and resilient.

Project:

North Carolina Local News Lab Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media, Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Nov 2020

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
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