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.
- Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
- $70,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2016
The purpose of this grant is to further develop Maynard’s strategic plan and to support reporting on diversity in journalism. This will help them further build out from their priorities developed following Knight’s support for a human centered design work.
Project:
Strategic Planning SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Dec 2016 to Nov 2017Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
- $260,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2016
This grant provides MIJE resources to relaunch programs and advocacy around diversity in journalism. MIJE is fresh off a round of strategic planning where they worked with over a dozen journalism professionals to identify needs within the field and devise ways to build on those opportunities for change. The purpose of this grant is to help the organization reestablish itself so that it can begin to take on the roles outlined from their human centered design strategic planning process.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Dec 2016 to May 2018Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- Rock the Vote
- $300,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2014
Organizational grant for Rock the Vote over 2 years.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Oct 2014 to Sep 2016Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Rockefeller Family Fund Inc
- $600,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
The Democracy & Power Innovation Fund (DPI Fund), hosted at the Rockefeller Family Fund, is a community of state-based organizing groups, social science researchers, and aligned funders who have come together to support learning and innovative programs that explore the connections between organizing, civic engagement, and building progressive power.
Project:
Democracy & Power Innovation FundFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2026Strategy:
General- Rockefeller Family Fund Inc
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2021
The Democracy & Power Innovation Fund at the Rockefeller Family Fund creates research and learning partnerships with funders, researchers, and organizing groups to improve practices in the field.
Project:
Democracy & Power Innovation FundFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Dec 2021 to Dec 2022Strategy:
General- Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc.
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
Dignity.US seeks to address the crisis of hate-fueled violence in America. Dignity.US is a citizens’ initiative to address the crisis of hate-fueled violence in America, led by a bipartisan collaborative of former Domestic Policy Council chairs from the Obama, Bush, and Trump Administrations.
Project:
Dignity.USFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
General- Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
- $150,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2021
The Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project is an independent nonprofit investigative reporting and research organization. They are producing the workshop series Building a Community of Practice: Reporting on Extremism for Small Newsrooms and Independent Journalists.
Project:
Reporting on ExtremismFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Aug 2021 to Jul 2022Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
- $115,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2022
Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project’s is creating a workshop series: Building a Community of Practice: Reporting on Extremism for Small Newsrooms and Independent Journalists, and working on post-production for a feature length documentary on the radicalization of youth online.
Project:
Reporting on ExtremismFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
Journalism & Power Building- Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
- $150,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
The Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project (RDYR) is an independent nonprofit investigative reporting and research organization that advances public understanding of the unique risks that America’s rural youth face online. They convene stakeholders including researchers, journalists, technologists, parents, educators, religious leaders, and mental health providers.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
General- Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
- $1,160,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
The Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project (RDYR) is an independent nonprofit investigative reporting and research organization that advances public understanding of the unique risks that America’s rural youth face online. They convene stakeholders including researchers, journalists, technologists, parents, educators, religious leaders, and mental health providers.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Media, OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2026Strategy:
General- Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2021
Rural Digital Youth Resiliency conducts data collection and analysis to document and analyze the networks and strategies used to expose, recruit, and radicalize white youth in the Appalachian region in order to determine opportunities for intervention.
Project:
Researching Radicalization of White Youth in AppalachiaFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2021 to Oct 2022Strategy:
General- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- $274,745.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2014
The News Measures Research Project will provide a foundation for the Democracy Fund and the field in general to assess the state of national and local journalism content, audience needs at a local level and the state of the local news media infrastructure.
Project:
Support News Measures ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Aug 2014 to Sep 2016Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
- $59,208.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2018
To support research and writing on the topic of platform accountability at the Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law.
Project:
Rutgers Institute for Information Policy & Law Staffing and Support for Digital Democracy ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Dec 2018 to May 2020Strategy:
Digital Democracy- Safe Voting Fund
- $1,000,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2020
The Safe Voting Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, centralizes and shares resources on issues such as educational efforts for policymakers on the importance of updates to voting systems in a COVID-environment and funding state-specific implementation programs.
Project:
Safe Voting FundFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Jul 2020 to Dec 2020Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Santa Fe Community Foundation
- $975,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
The New Mexico Local News Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation is working to create a healthy news and information ecosystem that serves the news and information needs of all New Mexicans.
Project:
New Mexico Local News FundFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2026Strategy:
News & Information Ecosystems- Santa Fe Community Foundation
- $1,250,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2020
The New Mexico Local News Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation is working to create a healthy news and information ecosystem that serves the news and information needs of all New Mexicans.
Project:
New Mexico Local News FundFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Dec 2020 to Oct 2023Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Santa Fe Community Foundation
- $10,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2022
The New Mexico Local News Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation is working to create a healthy news and information ecosystem that serves the news and information needs of all New Mexicans.
Project:
Investing in Staff WellbeingFoundation Center Topic:
Grant Length:
Oct 2022 to Sep 2023Strategy:
General- Santa Fe Community Foundation
- $475,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2019
To support the New Mexico local news ecosystem in collaboration with local funding partners through the New Mexico Local News Fund, which focuses on building more healthy news ecosystems as a vital part of just communities and a healthy democracy.
Project:
New Mexico Local News FundFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Dec 2019 to Nov 2020Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Santa Fe Community Foundation
- $400,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2018
The purpose of this grant is to catalyze the support of the New Mexico local news ecosystem in collaboration with local funding partners. The grant will set up a local news and information fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation — the New Mexico Local News Lab Fund — that will focus on building more healthy news ecosystems as a vital part of just communities and a healthy democracy.
Project:
New Mexico Local News Lab FundFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media/Journalism, MediaGrant Length:
Nov 2018 to Nov 2019Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Scalawag
- $100,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2022
Through journalism and storytelling, Scalawag works in solidarity with oppressed communities in the South to disrupt and shift the narratives that keep power and wealth in the hands of the few.