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
  • AmericaSpeaks
  • $650,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2012

Face the Facts USA will deliver provocative facts about big issues to help Americans debunk myths, hold better conversations, get involved, and make choices as smarter citizens around the 2012 election.

Project:

Face the Facts USA

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Feb 2012 to May 2013

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • AmericaSpeaks
  • $92,500.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2011

AmericaSpeaks will develop a plan through which a critical mass of citizens in 1-2 Congressional districts will take part in a pilot project for scaling up public deliberation.

Project:

Planning Grant to Scale Up Public Deliberation

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Sep 2011 to Jan 2012

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • And She Could Be Next LLC
  • $140,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

This grant supports impact campaign activities for And She Could Be Next, a documentary series celebrating women of color in leadership. The campaign aims to inspire and encourage the participation of young, more diverse, and politically skeptical American audiences in civic and democratic life.

Project:

And She Could Be Next

Foundation Center Topic:

Media

Grant Length:

Aug 2020 to Jul 2021

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
  • $465,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2020

America needs modern technical talent, at all levels of state and federal government, working in coordinated fashion to advance the Nation’s most pressing technical challenges. The United States of Technologists (“10K Techies”) project is a collective effort to activate 10,000 diverse technologists across state and federal government by the end of 2021.

Project:

10K Techies Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Executive Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2020 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • Arab American Institute Foundation
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

The Arab American Institute Foundation focuses on three buckets of work. Strengthening democracy, protecting civil rights and civil liberties for all, and standing for international peace and human rights. They believe all citizens must be able to fully participate in public life free from bigotry and discrimination.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Arab American Institute Foundation
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2020

The Arab American Institute Foundation was created to encourage Arab American participation in civic life, by ensuring that Arab Americans have the tools and data necessary to empower their communities through organization.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Sep 2020 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Arch + Bow Productions LLC
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

Arch + Bow Productions LLC, a fiscally sponsored project of Documentary Educational Resources, Inc., created a documentary that elevates awareness of the role of local elections officials in hosting safe, secure, and voter centric elections in the U.S.

Project:

RI LEO Film

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

Oct 2020 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2015

The purpose of this grant is to support the Morrison Institute’s research into the practice of Citizen’s Initiative Review.

Project:

Morrison Institute - CIR

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Mar 2015 to Jan 2016

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

This grant supports the establishment of the News Literacy Lab at Arizona State University. The project’s focus is on developing newsrooms as leaders in news literacy through education, research, and engagement. 

Project:

Co/Lab News Literacy Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to May 2019

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Asian Americans Journalists Association
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

To build organizational capacity to continue Asian Americans Journalists Association’s support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while partnering with media to ensure responsible and diverse coverage of AAPI communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jul 2022 to Jun 2023

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Asian Americans Journalists Association
  • $114,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2021

To build organizational capacity to continue Asian Americans Journalists Association’s support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while partnering with media to ensure responsible and diverse coverage of AAPI communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Asian Americans Journalists Association
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2017

The Asian American Journalists Association builds programming that engages Asian American and Pacific Islander community voices, grows membership, and leads in developing entrepreneurship/enterprise projects in the journalism industry.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Asian Americans Journalists Association
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To build organizational capacity to continue Asian Americans Journalists Association’s support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while partnering with media to ensure responsible and diverse coverage of AAPI communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Nov 2020

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Asian Law Caucus
  • $1,220,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2019

To support direct litigation and legal services work, and to strengthen and expand multilingual know your rights materials that can be delivered to MASA and immigrant communities through Asian Law Caucus’s National Security & Civil Rights work.

Project:

Litigation, Legal Services, and Know Your Rights

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Asian Law Caucus
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2017

To support direct litigation, legal services work, and to develop multi-lingual know-your-rights materials that can be delivered in MASA community centers.

Project:

Litigation, Legal Services, and Know Your Rights

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Oct 2017 to Sep 2018

Strategy:

General
  • Asian Law Caucus
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus was founded in 1972 as the nation’s first legal and civil rights organization serving low-income, immigrant, and underserved Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. They provide legal services, community empowerment, and policy advocacy to fight for immigrant justice, economic security, and a stronger democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Asian Law Caucus
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2018

To support direct litigation and legal services work, and to strengthen and expand multilingual know your rights materials that can be delivered to MASA and immigrant communities.  

Project:

Litigation, legal services, and know your rights

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Nov 2018 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

General
  • Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies
  • $400,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2019

This grant will provide general operating support for the Asian Pacific American Institute for Congressional Studies . 

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2019 to Jul 2023

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Association of Centers for the Study of Congress
  • $20,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2017

The Robert H. Michel Retrospective will honor Mr. Michel’s contribution to the nation’s political history by commissioning a series of essays by scholars and practitioners. The authors will use his career to illustrate and explain themes such as political polarization, congressional gridlock, and leadership dysfunction.

Project:

Robert H. Michel Retrospective

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Jul 2017 to Jun 2018

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc. dba The Vance Center
  • $30,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To support a strategic planning process for The Vance Center for International Justice Initiatives to develop Lawyers for Reporters, a nonprofit law firm providing pro bono legal services to nonprofit and local news reporting organizations throughout the United States. The goal of Lawyers for Reporters is ensuring that no journalists needing legal support will be turned down because of financial constraints.

Project:

Planning Grant: Lawyers for Reporters

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2020

Strategy:

Press Freedom
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