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
  • Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism CUNY Foundation, Inc.
  • $700,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2019

The Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism’s Center for Community and Ethnic Media (CCEM) will focus on expanding its role from a resource center and advocate for New York City-based community and ethnic media to a national hub for outlets serving ethnic, minority, and immigrant communities.

Project:

Center for Community and Ethnic Media

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jul 2019 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism CUNY Foundation, Inc.
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

The mission of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY is to prepare outstanding journalists to make a difference as they transform journalism. They train reporters to listen to and collaborate with communities, and to generate clear and compelling work that offers information and insight, holds the powerful accountable, and drives civic conversation.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Cultivate the Karass
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2017

Democracy Fund will provide general support for the work that Cultivate the Karass engages in to provide tools for emerging leaders to overcome polarization, seek understanding, and build trust.  

Project:

Support for Cultivate the Karass

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Nov 2018

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Curators of the University of Missouri
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

The purpose of this grant is to support training and research on how newsrooms can build trust with their communities through social media, in person engagement and via their web sites and news products. 

Project:

Trusting News Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to Sep 2019

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Data for Black Lives, Inc
  • $650,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2020

General operating support for Data for Black Lives.

Project:

Platforms & Civil Rights

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Apr 2020 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Decolonizing Wealth Project
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2020

The Liberated Capital Initiative by Decolonizing Wealth Project, a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, aims to collectively move us all from disparities to equity. They train funders on the structural inequalities that shape philanthropy, to support more equitable philanthropic efforts.

Project:

Decolonizing Wealth Project's Liberated Capital Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2020 to Dec 2021

Strategy:

General
  • Defending Democracy Together Institute
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The Pillars of the Community Project, which is part of the Defending Democracy Together Institute (DDTI), bolsters local and state election officials in key counties and states in their defense of the electoral process and the election administrators who make it work.

Project:

Pillars of the Community Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Feb 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Demand Progress Education Fund
  • $325,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2019

To support Demand Progress Education Fund, a project of the New Venture Fund, to investigate and highlight potential improvements to congressional legislative, oversight, and administrative capacity for audiences on and off Capitol Hill. Grant funds will support Demand Progress Education Fund’s execution of written reports and newsletters, participation in public events, and meetings with stakeholders that cumulatively contribute expert, substantive ideas in support of congressional reform. 

Project:

Legislative Capacity Project at Demand Progress Education Fund, a project of the New Venture Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Dec 2022

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Demand Progress Education Fund
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Demand Progress Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. They work to protect an internet that affords the public the ability to communicate freely online, without unjust interference from corporations or governments.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government, Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to May 2024

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Demand Progress Education Fund
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2017

This grant will provide support to Demand Progress, an organization that plays a critical education and advisory role on a variety of institutional practice and rulemaking areas that affect congressional capacity to function.

Project:

Legislative Capacity Project at Demand Progress, a Project of the New Venture Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Democracy 2076
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2023

Democracy 2076, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc., is convening organizers, state legislators, those running campaigns to amend the US Constitution, and legal scholars to envision what a Constitution for 2076 needs to include to ensure an effective, responsive, and representative democracy.

Project:

Democracy 2076

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Democracy 21 Education Fund
  • $350,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

The Democracy Legal Strike Force project at Democracy 21 Education Fund provides rapid-response legal work with the objective of protecting the system of democratically elected representative government, challenging anti-democracy efforts, and advancing the foundational American principle that no one is above the law.

Project:

Democracy Legal Strike Force Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Democracy Docket Legal Fund
  • $1,500,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

Democracy Docket Legal Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of the Hopewell Fund, works to detect and combat suppressive voting laws and practices through litigation.

Project:

Democracy Docket Legal Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Jul 2020 to Jun 2021

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Democracy Forward Foundation
  • $1,125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2023

Democracy Forward Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that uses the law to build collective power and advance a bold, vibrant democracy for all people.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government/Judicial Selection and Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

State and Local Accountability
  • Democracy Forward Foundation
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Democracy Forward Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that uses the law to build collective power and advance a bold, vibrant democracy for all people.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government/Judicial Selection and Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Democracy North Carolina
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

This grant provides general operating support for Democracy North Carolina (DemNC). The organization works to protect the right to vote, reduce the role of money in politics, and advance fair redistricting in North Carolina.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2022

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Democracy North Carolina
  • $75,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

Democracy North Carolina (DemNC) works to strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Democracy North Carolina
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

Democracy North Carolina (DemNC) works to strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Apr 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • Democracy Revival Center
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2023

The Democracy Revival Center, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center, will bring a generation of social and economic justice leaders, working across issue silos, into the long-term fight to transform political and governing institutions—and lay the groundwork for them to succeed.

Project:

Democracy Revival Center

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Redistricting, Government/Judicial Selection and Performance, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • Democracy Rising
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

Democracy Rising, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy Inc., works directly with community groups advancing democracy reform to build effective organizing, education, and advocacy strategies and to ensure just implementation.

Project:

Support for Democracy Rising

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
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