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.
- 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 MediaFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Jul 2019 to Jun 2022Strategy:
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 WellbeingFoundation Center Topic:
Grant Length:
Oct 2022 to Sep 2023Strategy:
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 KarassFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Dec 2017 to Nov 2018Strategy:
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 ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Nov 2017 to Sep 2019Strategy:
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 RightsFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Apr 2020 to Apr 2023Strategy:
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 FundFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Sep 2020 to Dec 2021Strategy:
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 ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Feb 2025Strategy:
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 FundFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch PerformanceGrant Length:
Dec 2019 to Dec 2022Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government, Government/Legislative Branch PerformanceGrant Length:
Dec 2022 to May 2024Strategy:
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 FundFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch PerformanceGrant Length:
Nov 2017 to Oct 2019Strategy:
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 2076Foundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2024Strategy:
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 ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government, Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Dec 2022 to Nov 2023Strategy:
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 FundFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Jul 2020 to Jun 2021Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government/Judicial Selection and PerformanceGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2026Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government/Judicial Selection and PerformanceGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Nov 2019 to Oct 2022Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Apr 2025Strategy:
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 CenterFoundation 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 AccessGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2024Strategy:
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.