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
  • El-Hibri Foundation
  • $460,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2019

To provide support to the El-Hibri Foundation (EHF), a private foundation that empowers and equips Muslim leaders and their allies to build thriving, inclusive communities. This expenditure responsibility grant will support EHF’s capacity building efforts for American Muslim community organizations and aligned partners, including, but not limited to, programs, grants, coaching, webinars, consultations, specialized trainings, and any other capacity building programs and efforts.

Project:

ER support for El-Hibri Foundation

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2019 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

General
  • El-Hibri Foundation
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The El-Hibri Foundation (EHF) is a philanthropic organization that empowers and equips Muslim leaders and their allies to build thriving, inclusive communities. EHF has provided capacity building trainings and programs through their Collective Action Leadership Incubator (CALI) for over six years to leaders from American Muslim and ally communities who are collectively seeking to advance inclusion and promote pluralism in society.

Project:

Capacity Building Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Election Center
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

In late 2022, electionline.org became a project of The Election Center, and this grant provides support for the transition of the website. The Election Center’s purpose is to promote, preserve, and improve democracy. The Center is also known as the National Association of Election Officials.

Project:

Electionline

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Election Reformers Network Inc
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To support a research project examining the conflicts that occur when the individual responsible for administering a state’s elections (in most states, the secretary of state) competes for elected office or publicly supports a competing candidate or party. Election Reformers Network will disseminate its research and findings through speaking engagements and a range of publications, including a statement of ethical standards and draft policy recommendations.

Project:

Chief Election Officer Conflict of Interest Project

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • Emergent Fund
  • $210,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2020

Emergent Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of Amalgamated Charitable Foundation, is supporting grassroots organizing and power building in communities of color who are facing injustice.

Project:

Emergent Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2020 to Dec 2021

Strategy:

General
  • Emergent Fund
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Emergent Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of Amalgamated Charitable Foundation, funds rapid response and emergent organizing led by frontline Black, Indigenous, and organizers of color with trust-based, no-string-attached grants. This grant is made by Democracy Fund in collaboration with the Rights and Dignity Working Group, a cross-Omidyar Group initiative.

Project:

RAD Support for Emergent Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

Rights and Dignity
  • Empowered Women
  • $66,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2016

This grant will support efforts by IGNITE and Empowered Women to bring together women-focused organizations and to help them plan ways to work together to achieve political parity in the United States. These organizations will do this through strategic planning and holding convenings of organizations who have similar goals but do not always work together toward those common goals. 

Project:

Strategic Planning Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Dec 2016 to Dec 2017

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Equality State News Fund
  • $90,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Equality State News Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of Wyoming Community Foundation, supports trustworthy, equitable and solutions-focused people, projects and organizations that contribute to a vibrant media ecosystem that helps Wyoming residents and communities to thrive.

Project:

Equality State News Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Apr 2025

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc.
  • $120,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2016

To strengthen reporting and commentary by bringing together prominent journalists and columnists of all political stripes to learn about and discuss issues related to religion that cut across partisan boundaries.

Project:

Support Faith Angle Forum

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Jul 2016 to Jun 2018

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc.
  • $120,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2014

To reduce political fear mongering by bringing together prominent journalists and columnists of all political stripes to learn about and discuss issues related to religion that cut across partisan boundaries.

Project:

Support Faith Angle Forum

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Aug 2014 to Jun 2016

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc.
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

This will grant will support the Faith Angle Forum project at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. 

Project:

Support for Faith Angle Forum

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Aug 2018 to Jul 2020

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc.
  • $544,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2016

Grantee will review existing research on the electorate,  will conduct original research and will facilitate follow up discussion and analysis regarding the findings of their research. Research and analysis will be released after the November 2016 elections and in 2017 and 2018.

Project:

Understanding the American Electorate

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Aug 2016 to Dec 2020

Strategy:

General
  • Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

This Grant will provide support for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission’s MLK 50 Conference and the production of materials for continued engagement to attendees and the membership of the ERLC. 

Project:

Support for the MLK50 Conference and Follow-up with Membership

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Apr 2018 to Oct 2020

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Ethnic Media Services
  • $75,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

Ethnic Media Services, a fiscally sponsored project of San Francisco Study Center Inc., will expand the visibility and impact of its weekly online national news briefings. These help ethnic media reporters produce coverage of global, national and regional events relevant to their audiences.

Project:

Ethnic Media Services

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Jun 2022 to May 2023

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, Inc.
  • $30,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • President's Office
  • 2019

This grant supports Facing History and Ourselves in their mission to promote understanding, pluralism and civic engagement through classroom programming. 

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Mar 2019 to Mar 2020

Strategy:

General
  • Fair Elections Center
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To provide support for growth and visibility of the website workelections.com, which is a site designed to collect and centralize poll worker information and applications from several jurisdictions, making it easier for local election officials and potential poll workers to connect and fill Election Day positions. 

Project:

Pollworker Recruitment Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

Aug 2019 to Dec 2020

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Fair Elections Center
  • $50,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

Fair Elections Center delivers nonpartisan, creative solutions to make the processes of voter registration, voting, and election administration as accessible as possible for every American, with a special focus on student and underrepresented voters.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Fair Elections Center
  • $75,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2018

This grant will provide support for growth and visibility of the website workelections.com, which is a site designed to collect and centralize poll worker information and applications from several jurisdictions, making it easier for local election officials and potential poll workers to connect and fill Election Day positions. 

Project:

Poll Worker Recruitment

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Aug 2018 to Dec 2018

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • FairVote
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2015

This grant will be to help support the general operations of FairVote – an organization working to generate greater civility in government through voting reforms.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

Nov 2015 to Oct 2017

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • FairVote
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2013

FairVote will work with a team of academic partners to research the relationship between ranked choice voting and political conduct / civility.

Project:

Research on Rank Choice Voting

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Oct 2013 to Apr 2015

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
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