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.
- President and Fellows of Harvard College
- $480,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2019
To support the Technology and Social Change Research Project in researching coordinated inauthentic activity to promote mis/disinformation that could impact US democratic processes including rule of law issues, elections, and their impact on Black, Indigenous, and people of color.
Project:
Technology and Social Change Research ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Dec 2019 to Apr 2023Strategy:
Digital Democracy- President and Fellows of Harvard College
- $240,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2019
To support the Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Project:
Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center support for the Senior Practice Fellowship in American DemocracyFoundation Center Topic:
Government, OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2019 to Dec 2021Strategy:
General- President and Fellows of Harvard College
- $300,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2022
The Guinier Project, an initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, will examine alternative voting systems through a racial justice lens.
Project:
The Guinier ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Dec 2022 to Nov 2024Strategy:
Representative Institutions- President and Fellows of Harvard College
- $100,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2017
This grant will support the Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.
Project:
Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center Senior Practice Fellowship in American DemocracyFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Dec 2017 to Nov 2018Strategy:
General- President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College
- $85,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2017
The Trust Project is developing tools and technologies to make quality news easy for the public to identify and technology platforms to surface.
Project:
Planning Grant for The Trust ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Jul 2017 to Mar 2019Strategy:
Press Freedom- President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College
- $90,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2019
To support the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, which is developing a research agenda and public facing initiatives to translate their research to advance solidarity journalism.
Project:
RAD Support for Solidarity JournalismFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Dec 2019 to Nov 2021Strategy:
General- Press On South Inc
- $150,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2021
Press On is a Southern media collective that catalyzes change and advances justice through the practice of movement journalism.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Dec 2021 to Dec 2022Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Press On South Inc
- $50,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2019
To support PressOn, a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, in their continued work on media ecosystem analyses in the South.
Project:
Southern Media Community Needs AssessmentFoundation Center Topic:
Media, Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Nov 2019 to Oct 2020Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Press On South Inc
- $180,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2020
PressOn, a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, is building a diverse set of resources, including trainings, fellowships and opportunities for network-building, to help journalists and storytellers produce reporting that’s driven by communities in the South.
Project:
PressOn / Center for Movement JournalismFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Dec 2020 to Nov 2021Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Prism Reports, Inc.
- $465,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2023
Prism provides in-depth and thought-provoking journalism in order to reflect the lived experiences of people most impacted by injustice, disrupting harmful narratives and informing movements for justice.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, MediaGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2026Strategy:
Journalism & Power Building- Pro Publica Inc.
- $3,000,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2017
This grant is to support investigative reporting. It is part of a larger package of grants around investigative journalism that is meant to expand the critical capacity of nonprofit investigative journalism as a robust fourth estate. The grant will empower those newsrooms to pursue rigorous journalism that keeps the government accountable to the American people.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Apr 2017 to Mar 2019Strategy:
Investigative Journalism- Pro Publica Inc.
- $700,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2019
To support ProPublica’s investigative journalism as a critical check and balance on power. The grant will provide ProPublica with general operating support to help them fulfill their role as a core part of America’s fourth estate.
Project:
Investigative Journalism Special ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Dec 2019 to Jun 2021Strategy:
Investigative Journalism- ProGeorgia State Table Inc
- $300,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2023
ProGeorgia is a bold, trusted, and diverse collaborative that champions an equitable and inclusive democracy, for and with traditionally underrepresented communities. They support and coordinate the civic engagement programs of their diverse partner organizations.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2025Strategy:
Voting Power- ProGeorgia State Table Inc
- $675,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2020
The Childcare Fund at ProGeorgia State Table Inc. will support access to affordable childcare for women of color among their 38 table partners. With safe and reliable childcare during the pandemic, these individuals will be able to continue the urgent work of voter engagement and delivery of direct services in vulnerable communities.
Project:
ProGeorgia Childcare FundFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Nov 2020 to Aug 2023Strategy:
General- ProgressNow New Mexico Education Fund
- $300,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2023
ProgressNow NM Education Fund works with coalitions to promote progressive ideas and causes with creative, earned media strategies, digital organizing, and cutting-edge new media.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Sep 2025Strategy:
Civil & Human Rights Online- Protect Democracy Project
- $1,900,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2019
General operating support to the Protect Democracy Project.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of LawGrant Length:
Dec 2019 to Dec 2022Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- Protect Democracy Project
- $2,250,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2022
Formed by lawyers who served at the highest levels of the federal government, the Protect Democracy Project works to inform Americans of specific threats to their right to free, fair, and fully-informed self-government.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of LawGrant Length:
Dec 2022 to Mar 2026Strategy:
Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power- Protect Democracy Project
- $700,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2017
The Protect Democracy Project is investigating government actions, engaging in public outreach and education, encouraging oversight by existing government mechanisms, and, when appropriate, bringing litigation against government actions that threaten our democracy.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of LawGrant Length:
Nov 2017 to Oct 2019Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- Proteus Fund Inc.
- $500,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2013
The Collaborative Communications Initiative will improve the communications capacity of the campaign finance reform community.
Project:
Collaborative Communications Inititative on Money in PoliticsFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign FinanceGrant Length:
Jan 2014 to Jan 2016Strategy:
Previous Strategy- Proteus Fund Inc.
- $400,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2018
To provide support for the Security & Rights Collaborative (SRC), a Proteus Fund initiative. SRC’s primary grantmaking focus is to support a diverse field of organizations working to address anti-Muslim bigotry, xenophobia, and more, by building capacity of Muslim, Arab and South Asian (MASA) community based and grassroots organizations.