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
  • Southern Coalition for Social Justice
  • $400,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

Southern Coalition for Social Justice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by a multidisciplinary group, predominantly people of color, who believed that communities engaged in social justice struggles need a team of lawyers, social scientists, community organizers, and media specialists to support them in their efforts to dismantle structural racism and oppression.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Jan 2024 to Dec 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • Southern Coalition for Social Justice
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) represents individual voters and civic engagement groups in litigation to protect the right to cast a ballot and to ensure that every eligible vote counts equally. They also provide counsel to local community groups regarding redistricting and speak on behalf of clients at local town hall meetings and legislative committees.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Southern Coalition for Social Justice
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

Southern Coalition for Social Justice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by a multidisciplinary group, predominantly people of color, who believed that communities engaged in social justice struggles need a team of lawyers, social scientists, community organizers, and media specialists to support them in their efforts to dismantle structural racism and oppression.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

May 2022 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Southern Coalition for Social Justice
  • $275,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To provide general operating support for SCSJ.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Apr 2022

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Spaceship Media
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

Spaceship Media 2.0, a fiscally sponsored project of Social Good Fund, serves journalists by developing skills and capacity through Dialogue Journalism methods and local engagement.

Project:

Spaceship Media 2.0

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2020 to Oct 2021

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Spaceship Media
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To support the pilot of Spaceship Local in Douglas, Arizona, rebuilding a news and information system through community engagement in a border town where reliable news sources are scarce. In addition to supporting this community, Spaceship Media is collecting valuable lessons on how their dialogue journalism model for engagement can be deployed more widely in geographic areas with similar needs.

Project:

Spaceship Local

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2020

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • State Innovation Exchange
  • $195,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

State Innovation Exchange (SiX) is a national resource and strategy center that collaborates with state legislators to improve people’s lives through transformative public policy. SiX works in close coordination with legislators, advocacy groups, think tanks, and activists to provide the tools and information legislators need to be successful.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Government, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Representative Leadership
  • State Leadership Project
  • $750,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

State Leadership Project’s Thunderbolt—Democracy Dream Team is a collaboration effort to engage new funders to expand funding for the pro-democracy and non-partisan civic engagement fields.

Project:

Thunderbolt — Democracy Dream Team collaboration

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

General
  • State Leadership Project
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

State Leadership Project (SLP) is 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on resourcing nonpartisan efforts to grow a sustainable civic ecosystem. They cultivate donor communities to fund and build the state infrastructure needed to ensure free and fair elections, combat mis and disinformation, register and educate voters, and support policies that will help achieve a multiracial democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Jul 2023 to Jun 2025

Strategy:

General
  • State Power Fund
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The State Power Accelerator is an innovative strategy focused on the development of independent resource generation for social justice organizations. This project is the result of four years of research, convenings, and case studies commissioned by a set of funders including the Solidago Foundation and the Amalgamated Foundation.

Project:

State Power Accelerator

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • State Voices
  • $550,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

The State Voices network of nonpartisan state coalitions, called “tables,” works with hundreds of grassroots organizations to break down barriers to civic participation and to bring underrepresented and marginalized populations ― and their issues ― to the center of public discourse.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Jul 2024

Strategy:

General
  • State Voices
  • $525,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

State Voices is national civic engagement organization focused on building capacity at the state and local level. This grant supports their work to make voting more inclusive and accessible.

Project:

Election Protection & Vote By Mail Efforts

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Jun 2020 to Feb 2021

Strategy:

General
  • States at the Core
  • $185,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

States at the Center, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc., helps local organizations by providing adaptable, implementable resources and expertise to the states and communities working to increase Americans’ faith in democracy and strengthen democratic institutions.

Project:

States at the Core

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Jun 2024 to May 2025

Strategy:

General
  • States United Democracy Center Inc
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The States United Democracy Center is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to free, fair, and secure elections. They support state and local officials by providing the resources and expertise they need to run and defend our elections, keep elections safe, and make sure the will of the people is respected.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Stop Online Violence Against Women
  • $425,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Stop Online Violence Against Women Project (SOVAW), a fiscally sponsored project of Planetwork NGO, raises awareness and funding to stop online harassment. SOVAW addresses inadequate laws and policies that lack protections for women in particular women of color.

Project:

Stop Online Violence Against Women

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Civil & Human Rights Online
  • Student Press Law Center
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2017

General operating support for the Student Press Law Center.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Mar 2019

Strategy:

Press Freedom
  • Student Press Law Center
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

Founded in 1974, the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) promotes, supports and defends the First Amendment and free press rights of student journalists and their advisers.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media

Grant Length:

Jul 2022 to Jun 2023

Strategy:

Press Freedom
  • Student Press Law Center
  • $450,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2019

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support to Student Press Law Center to expand and defend the rights of student journalists and their advisors.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Jun 2019 to May 2022

Strategy:

Press Freedom
  • Take Back Our Republic Inc
  • $425,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

Take Back Our Republic (TBOR) is a non-partisan organization that advocates for conservative solutions to campaign finance and related issues through research, education, and grassroots advocacy efforts.

Project:

Take Back Our Republic

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance

Grant Length:

Dec 2020 to Oct 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Take Back Our Republic Inc
  • $700,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2016

Take Back Our Republic (TBOR) gives concerned citizens a voice on money in politics. Their activities include research and education to return political power to individuals.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance

Grant Length:

Dec 2016 to Nov 2018

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
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