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.

Program Areas
Select...
Elections and Voting
General and Field Building
Governance
Just and Inclusive Society
President's Office
Public Square
Strategies
Select...
Civil & Human Rights Online
Constructive Politics
Digital Democracy
Ecosystem News
Empowering Congress
Engaged Journalism
Equitable Civic Infrastructure
General
Investigative Journalism
Journalism & Power Building
News & Information Ecosystems
Oversight and Accountability
Power Building in Marginalized Communities
Press Freedom
Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
Previous Strategy
Pro-Voter Reform
Representative Institutions
Representative Leadership
Resilient Elections
Rights and Dignity
Roadmap for American Democracy
State and Local Accountability
Trust in Elections
Voter-Centric Election Administration
Voting Power
Organization Name (A-Z) Grant Amount Type Program Area Year
  • Justice Work
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

22nd Century Initiative is a project of Justice Work, a fiscally sponsored project of the National Center for Civic Innovation. The Initiative addresses the expansion and mainstreaming of white nationalism and other far right movements in the U.S. by developing strategies, networks, research, and actions that protect the integrity of our democracy.

Project:

22nd Century Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Justice Work
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Justice Work is a think tank/action lab that incubates path-breaking and creative initiatives to advance social justice. They center marginalized voices to challenge conventional priorities and strategies. They develop long-term partnerships with front-line organizations and academic institutions to strengthen social justice movements and break down siloed spaces.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Kairos Fellowship Inc.
  • $1,050,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Kairos works toward an inclusive, multi-racial democracy by changing how pro-justice organizations see, use, and imagine the future of the internet. Kairos recognizes that understanding the internet as a place, and reshaping governance of the internet as a public square, are essential to strengthening democracy and building a healthier digital media ecosystem.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Civil & Human Rights Online
  • Kairos Fellowship Inc.
  • $215,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

Kairos Fellowship, a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects Inc., trains fellows in digital-first campaigning who are placed at state and national power-building organizations.

Project:

Kairos Fellowship

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • Kanu Hawaii
  • $85,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To provide Kanu, a Hawaii based volunteer organization, with capacity to engage volunteers to raise awareness about nonpartisan civic engagement and empowerment in the state. Kanu will work with other organizations and nonprofits to promote greater Hawaiian participation in voting and public engagement.

Project:

Volunteerism and Civic Engagement-Hawaii

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Nov 2020

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Kartemquin Educational Films
  • $20,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

To support production and outreach for the documentary Represent, which followed a bipartisan group of female candidates during their 2018 election bids to different positions across the country.

Project:

Support for Represent Documentary

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to Nov 2019

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Keep Our Republic Charitable Fund
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

Keep Our Republic is a non-partisan civic education organization dedicated to protecting a republic of laws and strengthening the checks and balances of our democratic electoral system. We aim to discover, highlight, and help prevent an array of extraordinary threats to American democracy, strengthen democratic guardrails, and educate the public before it is too late.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Mar 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Kennesaw State University Research and Service Foundation, Inc.
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

This grant will support the Georgia News Lab. The News Lab’s mission is threefold: To make the vital work of investigative reporting affordable for news organizations, to increase diversity in newsrooms, and to help news outlets better serve their communities by increasing the flow of trustworthy public interest journalism.

Project:

Georgia News Lab

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Oct 2017 to Jun 2020

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Keseb
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2023

Keseb, a fiscally sponsored project of the Fund for Constitutional Government, is a nonpartisan, pro-democracy nonprofit organization building transnational alliances between democracy activists and entrepreneurs to fight authoritarian ideology, demagogic political leaders, and xenophobic movements.

Project:

Support for Keseb

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Latino Community Fund Inc
  • $195,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

Latino Community Fund Georgia (LCF Georgia) supports Latinx-serving and Latinx-led nonprofit organizations that are advancing democracy, protecting and building community, and facilitating economic opportunities for all.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Apr 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • Law For Black Lives
  • $750,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2020

To support Law for Black Lives (L4BL), a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, on its litigation and and capacity building.  

Project:

Support for Law for Black Lives

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Mar 2020 to May 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Law Forward Inc.
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

Law Forward is a legal nonprofit working to defend ballot access, led the fight for fair districts, protected separation of powers, advocated for the judiciary’s constitutional role, and convened broad coalitions—including key Wisconsin nonprofits, government officials, and national allies to resist election subversion and ensure fair, free elections.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Jun 2024 to May 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Lawfare Institute
  • $25,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2018

This project grant will support capacity building at the Lawfare Institute. Lawfare facilitates research and robust analysis of national security issues, and its experts also use FOIA to uncover information that will help foster objective, public, and transparent discussions around government decision-making. This capacity building grant will support Lawfare’s work to build its influence by improving its ability to produce high-quality audio and video content.

Project:

Capacity Building for Videos and Podcasts

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Nov 2018 to Jun 2019

Strategy:

General
  • LawWorks
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

The 65 Project, an initiative within LawWorks, a fiscally sponsored project of the Franklin Education Forum, works to increase the adoption of ethics best practices by lawyers and state bar associations.

Project:

Lawyer Ethics Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Other, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

May 2022 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
  • $2,000,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law activates the pro bono resources of the bar for litigation, public policy, advocacy and other forms of service by lawyers to the cause of civil rights.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Sep 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Civil & Human Rights Online
  • Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
  • $350,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2017

The purpose of this grant is to provide funding for enhanced staffing dedicated to pro bono and technological enhancement.

Project:

Pro Bono Project Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2017 to Aug 2018

Strategy:

General
  • Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2018

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support to the Lawyers’ Committee’s work to activate the private bar and leverage pro bono support to confront civil rights challenges.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to Nov 2019

Strategy:

General
  • Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
  • $140,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2020

The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law project on COVID-19 accountability uses public education and litigation to address racial disparities in the government’s public health and economic recovery response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

Project:

COVID-19 Accountability

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2020 to Sep 2021

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
  • $1,450,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2020

General operating support for Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law and the Digital Justice Initiative.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Apr 2020 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Leadership Conference Education Fund, Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To support the Voting Rights Program within the Leadership Conference Education Fund as it expands its communications capacity and works to influence a shift in the national public narrative to center and support the self-empowerment of marginalized communities, re-establish voting as a fundamental right, and minimize the partisan lens on discourse around these issues.

Project:

Voting Rights Program Strategic Communications

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Dec 2020

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
Democracy Fund
1200 17th Street NW Suite 300,
Washington, DC 20036