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
  • The Foundation Center
  • $28,148.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2013

For the development of a tool mapping funding flows in the field of democracy reform.

Project:

Democracy Field Mapping Tool

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2013 to Sep 2014

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • The Foundation Center
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2016

Continued support for the Democracy Field Mapping Tool. The grant funding will allow Foundation Center to make additional improvements and enhancements to this tool. The tool provides relevant data visualizations for various funders, nonprofits, and other groups interested in the philanthropic sector’s role in U.S. democracy.

Project:

Democracy Map Renewal 2016

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2016 to Sep 2017

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • The Foundation Center
  • $145,675.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2014

Strengthen the democracy reform field through improvements to the Foundation Center’s democracy mapping tool in order to foster more effective strategic collaboration and decision making in the field.

Project:

Democracy Map Renewal 2014

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2014 to Oct 2015

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • The Georgia Coalition for the Peoples Agenda Inc
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To provide general operating support for the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to May 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • The German Marshall Fund of the United States
  • $600,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2018

The purpose of this grant is to support the Digital Democracy Project in developing institutional capacity for policy development that addresses the role of platforms in our democracy.

Project:

Digital Democracy Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2018 to Mar 2020

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • The German Marshall Fund of the United States
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

To provide continued support to the Alliance for Securing Democracy at The German Marshall Fund of the United States to identify and support the best methods of pushing back on foreign threats to our U.S. political system, whether they be through elections, misinformation, or attempts to interfere with our democratic institutions. 

Project:

Project on Alliance for Securing Democracy (US)

Foundation Center Topic:

Media, Government, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to May 2021

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • The German Marshall Fund of the United States
  • $800,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2019

To support the German Marshall Fund’s Alliance for Securing Democracy, a bipartisan, transatlantic project to expose, analyze, and develop strategies to address authoritarian interference in democracy.  

Project:

Alliance for Securing Democracy

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Government, Media

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to May 2023

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • The German Marshall Fund of the United States
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2017

To provide quick, expansive capacity for the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund to identify and support the best methods of pushing back on foreign threats to our US political system, whether they be through elections, misinformation and attempts to intervene in our governance programs. 

Project:

Project on Alliance for Securing Democracy (US)

Foundation Center Topic:

Media, Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to Oct 2018

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • The German Marshall Fund of the United States
  • $25,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2019

This project grant will support the German Marshall Fund of the United States’ (GMFUS) strengthening of its cybersecurity infrastructure. GMFUS will use this support to upgrade its information technology systems to improve network security and incident response. 

Project:

Cybersecurity Capacity Building

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2019 to Mar 2020

Strategy:

General
  • The German Marshall Fund of the United States
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

The purpose of this grant is to support the Digital Innovation & Democracy Initiative in creating space for thoughtful policy development that addresses the role of platforms in our democracy and engages a diverse network of experts.

Project:

Digital Innovation & Democracy Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Apr 2020 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • The Governance Lab
  • $190,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2021

GovLab, a fiscally-sponsored project of the Fund for the City of New York, will hire a Fellow to support the launch of Smarter Crowdsourcing, which combines rigorous problem definition with crowdsourcing to attract ideas from diverse experts and then develop policy recommendations.

Project:

GovLab Congressional CrowdLaw

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Public Participation, Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Sep 2021 to Dec 2022

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • The Governance Lab
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2019

GovLab, a fiscally-sponsored project of the Fund for the City of New York, is developing pilot projects with congressional committees to utilize open-source software and online resources to solicit expert and constituent opinion at key moments of the legislative process.

Project:

GovLab Congressional CrowdLaw Pilot Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Aug 2019 to Jul 2020

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • The Harwood Institute for Public Innovation
  • $95,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2011

This planning grant will enable the Harwood Institute to develop key programs to help frame, seed and drive a counter-narrative in the country that focuses on people’s aspirations for public life and politics and what leaders, organizations and individuals can do to create a new trajectory in their communities and the country.

Project:

Planning Grant

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Jan 2012 to Jan 2013

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • The Horizon Forum
  • $175,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2020

The Horizon Forum, a fiscally sponsored project of Proteus Fund, will identify best practices, explore case studies, and develop solutions to address the problem of racist, dangerous, and xenophobic activity funded through the philanthropic sector.

Project:

The Horizon Forum

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2020 to Nov 2022

Strategy:

General
  • The Horizon Forum
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The Horizon Forum, a fiscally sponsored project of Proteus Fund, works to identify best practices, explore case studies, and develop solutions to address the problem of racist, dangerous, and xenophobic activity being funded through the philanthropic sector.

Project:

The Horizon Forum

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • The Horizons Project
  • $450,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

The Horizons Project, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, advances research on weakening and dismantling authoritarianism in the United States.

Project:

The Horizons Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2027

Strategy:

General
  • The Horizons Project
  • $110,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The Horizons Project, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, will bring together anti-authoritarian organizers and allies to develop processes and structures for enhanced collaboration.

Project:

Anti-Authoritarian Strategery Convening

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

General
  • The Horizons Project
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Horizons Project, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, advances research on weakening and dismantling authoritarianism in the United States.

Project:

Anti-Authoritarian Strategery

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2023 to Jun 2024

Strategy:

General
  • The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting
  • $166,211.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a fiscally sponsored project of Morehouse College, is a news trade organization dedicated to increasing and retaining reporters and editors of color in the field of investigative reporting.

Project:

Ida B. Wells Society

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2025

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

The purpose of this grant is to provide support to the Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting.

Project:

Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Nov 2019

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
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