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.
- Empowered Women
- $66,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2016
This grant will support efforts by IGNITE and Empowered Women to bring together women-focused organizations and to help them plan ways to work together to achieve political parity in the United States. These organizations will do this through strategic planning and holding convenings of organizations who have similar goals but do not always work together toward those common goals.
Project:
Strategic Planning SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Dec 2016 to Dec 2017Strategy:
Constructive Politics- Equality State News Fund
- $90,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
Equality State News Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of Wyoming Community Foundation, supports trustworthy, equitable and solutions-focused people, projects and organizations that contribute to a vibrant media ecosystem that helps Wyoming residents and communities to thrive.
Project:
Equality State News FundFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Apr 2025Strategy:
News & Information Ecosystems- Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc.
- $120,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2014
To reduce political fear mongering by bringing together prominent journalists and columnists of all political stripes to learn about and discuss issues related to religion that cut across partisan boundaries.
Project:
Support Faith Angle ForumFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Aug 2014 to Jun 2016Strategy:
Constructive Politics- Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc.
- $125,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2018
This will grant will support the Faith Angle Forum project at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
Project:
Support for Faith Angle ForumFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and Policy, Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Aug 2018 to Jul 2020Strategy:
Constructive Politics- Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc.
- $120,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2016
To strengthen reporting and commentary by bringing together prominent journalists and columnists of all political stripes to learn about and discuss issues related to religion that cut across partisan boundaries.
Project:
Support Faith Angle ForumFoundation Center Topic:
Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Jul 2016 to Jun 2018Strategy:
Constructive Politics- Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc.
- $544,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2016
Grantee will review existing research on the electorate, will conduct original research and will facilitate follow up discussion and analysis regarding the findings of their research. Research and analysis will be released after the November 2016 elections and in 2017 and 2018.
Project:
Understanding the American ElectorateFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Aug 2016 to Dec 2020Strategy:
General- Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2018
This Grant will provide support for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission’s MLK 50 Conference and the production of materials for continued engagement to attendees and the membership of the ERLC.
Project:
Support for the MLK50 Conference and Follow-up with MembershipFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Apr 2018 to Oct 2020Strategy:
Constructive Politics- Ethnic Media Services
- $75,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2022
Ethnic Media Services, a fiscally sponsored project of San Francisco Study Center Inc., will expand the visibility and impact of its weekly online national news briefings. These help ethnic media reporters produce coverage of global, national and regional events relevant to their audiences.
Project:
Ethnic Media ServicesFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Jun 2022 to May 2023Strategy:
Digital Democracy- Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, Inc.
- $30,000.00
- General Operating Support
- President's Office
- 2019
This grant supports Facing History and Ourselves in their mission to promote understanding, pluralism and civic engagement through classroom programming.
Project:
Lippman Kanfer Prize - Facing HistoryFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Mar 2019 to Mar 2020Strategy:
General- Fair Elections Center
- $75,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2018
This grant will provide support for growth and visibility of the website workelections.com, which is a site designed to collect and centralize poll worker information and applications from several jurisdictions, making it easier for local election officials and potential poll workers to connect and fill Election Day positions.
Project:
Poll Worker RecruitmentFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Aug 2018 to Dec 2018Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Fair Elections Center
- $125,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
To provide support for growth and visibility of the website workelections.com, which is a site designed to collect and centralize poll worker information and applications from several jurisdictions, making it easier for local election officials and potential poll workers to connect and fill Election Day positions.
Project:
Pollworker Recruitment ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and VotingGrant Length:
Aug 2019 to Dec 2020Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Fair Elections Center
- $50,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2021
Fair Elections Center delivers nonpartisan, creative solutions to make the processes of voter registration, voting, and election administration as accessible as possible for every American, with a special focus on student and underrepresented voters.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Oct 2021 to Sep 2022Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- FairVote
- $250,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2015
This grant will be to help support the general operations of FairVote – an organization working to generate greater civility in government through voting reforms.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and VotingGrant Length:
Nov 2015 to Oct 2017Strategy:
Previous Strategy- FairVote
- $300,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2013
FairVote will work with a team of academic partners to research the relationship between ranked choice voting and political conduct / civility.
Project:
Research on Rank Choice VotingFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Oct 2013 to Apr 2015Strategy:
Previous Strategy- FairVote
- $50,000.00
- Network Grant
- Elections and Voting
- 2015
The project will create greater understanding and transparency on how political giving affects the universe of viable candidates, in hopes of developing messaging strategies that draw attention to the key role major campaign funders have in citizen ability to shape electoral bodies and therefore eventual policy.
Project:
Shedding Light on PACs & Major Donors on Women in PoliticsFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance, Campaigns, Elections, and VotingGrant Length:
Dec 2015 to Dec 2016Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- FairVote
- $100,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2017
This grant will support the general operations of FairVote – an organization working to generate more effective governance through voting reforms.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Campaigns, Elections, and VotingGrant Length:
Dec 2017 to Nov 2018Strategy:
Constructive Politics- FairVote
- $300,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2022
FairVote is a nonpartisan organization working for better elections for all. They research and advance voting reforms that make democracy more functional and representative for every American, with a focus on two key reforms: ranked choice voting and the Fair Representation Act.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2024Strategy:
Representative Institutions- FairVote
- $50,000.00
- Network Grant
- Elections and Voting
- 2013
Fair Vote and BPC will examine state houses who had to adapt to unusual power-sharing structures to understand how agreement can be reached in such cases.
Project:
Mini-GrantFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Jan 2014 to Jan 2015Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Faith and Politics Institute
- $290,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2019
General support for Faith and Politics Institute
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access, Government/Legislative Branch PerformanceGrant Length:
Oct 2019 to Nov 2021Strategy:
Constructive Politics- Faith and Politics Institute
- $125,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2018
General support for the Faith and Politics Institute.