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.
- 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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Dec 2019 to Nov 2022Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Sep 2019 to Aug 2023Strategy:
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 CenterFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and Training, OtherGrant Length:
Mar 2020 to Jun 2021Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Other, Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Jun 2017 to May 2018Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Sep 2018 to Aug 2019Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media, OtherGrant Length:
Sep 2023 to Aug 2025Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, OtherGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2024Strategy:
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 ProgramFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2019 to Oct 2020Strategy:
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 ProgramFoundation Center Topic:
Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Apr 2021 to Mar 2022Strategy:
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 IRAPFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2019 to Oct 2023Strategy:
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 IRAPFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2026Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Aug 2023 to Jul 2025Strategy:
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 FundFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Jul 2022 to Jun 2023Strategy:
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 FundFoundation Center Topic:
MediaGrant Length:
Oct 2020 to Jan 2022Strategy:
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 2016Foundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Dec 2015 to Dec 2016Strategy:
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 IIFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign FinanceGrant Length:
Sep 2016 to Aug 2017Strategy:
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 ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Open Government and Transparency, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign FinanceGrant Length:
Oct 2014 to Sep 2015Strategy:
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 CollectiveFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and Policy, Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2018 to Nov 2020Strategy:
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 CollectiveFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Oct 2022 to Sep 2024Strategy:
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.