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
  • Scalawag
  • $465,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Founded in 2014 and headquartered in Durham, NC, Scalawag is a Southern media organization that builds social and political consciousness through journalism and storytelling. Their mission is to work 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.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Shoulder to Shoulder
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

Shoulder to Shoulder, a fiscally sponsored project of The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, trains faith and community leaders to address Islamophobia in their communities.

Project:

Support for Shoulder to Shoulder

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jul 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Shoulder to Shoulder
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Shoulder to Shoulder, a fiscally sponsored project of The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, connects, equips, and mobilizes faith communities in the U.S. as strategic partners in countering, addressing, and preventing anti-Muslim hatred, discrimination, and violence. Part of this grant will build Shoulder to Shoulder’s fundraising and communications capacity.

Project:

Shoulder to Shoulder

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation

Grant Length:

Sep 2023 to Aug 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Shoulder to Shoulder
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Shoulder to Shoulder, a fiscally sponsored project of The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, trains faith and community leaders to address Islamophobia in their communities.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Shoulder to Shoulder
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Shoulder to Shoulder, a fiscally sponsored project of The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, trains faith and community leaders to address Islamophobia in their communities.

Project:

Shoulder to Shoulder

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Sightline Institute
  • $350,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2023

Sightline Institute’s nonpartisan Democracy and Elections program advances solutions for Cascadia’s electoral systems, including stifling extreme partisanship through open primaries, allowing voters more freedom to express their preferences through ranked choice voting and proportional representation, and expanding and protecting voting access for all.

Project:

Program support for Democracy & Elections Program

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Dec 2025

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • Social Science Research Council
  • $75,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

This grant will support the Social Science Research Council’s research on media and democracy, cutting across two areas of their existing work- Anxieties of Democracy and Digital culture. The grant will support cross-sector convenings and research about the role of media in democracy and the development of communications tools to provide resources to help media better serve democratic ends.

Project:

SSRC Media and Democracy Research Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Nov 2018

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Social Science Research Council
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2018

The purpose of this grant is to support the Digital Disinformation Research and Mapping Project, which will track and aggregate ongoing research, facilitate the alignment of research with relevant policy efforts, and build a diverse and multidisciplinary scholarly network.

Project:

Digital Disinformation Research and Mapping Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Sep 2018 to Aug 2021

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Social Science Research Council
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2018

The Social Data Initiative will examine social media’s impact on society and democracy, explore questions about the responsible use of social network data, and generate insights to inform solutions.

Project:

Social Data Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Sep 2018 to Aug 2019

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Social Science Research Council
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

To support scholarship at the intersection of critical race, digital studies, and social media platforms; especially as it relates to discriminatory targeting, hateful activities, content governance, and human / civil rights protections in the United States, with a particular focus on people of color and women.

Project:

Critical Race, Digital Studies, & Social Media Platforms

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Apr 2020 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Sojourners
  • $315,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

Sojourners is an independent, award-winning print and online magazine of faith, culture, and politics.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Media, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

May 2021 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Sojourners
  • $275,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Sojourners is an ecumenical Christian media and advocacy organization that works towards social and racial justice. Sojourners publishes an award-winning magazine, produces daily news and commentary on sojo.net, and mobilizes people of faith for social justice through its advocacy initiative SojoAction.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Media, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

May 2023 to Apr 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Sojourners
  • $75,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

To support Sojourners’ Matthew 25 initiative to shift the political and public narrative towards more inclusive and constructive conversations. To do this, Sojourners will use values-based messaging and convene diverse partners to address issues such as racism and xenophobia through videos, audio pieces, and other resources.

Project:

Support for Matthew 25 Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Jul 2018 to Jun 2019

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Sojourners
  • $325,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2019

Sojourners is an independent, award-winning print and online magazine of faith, culture, and politics.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Aug 2019 to Jul 2020

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Solidaire Network Inc
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Janisha R. Gabriel Movement Protection Fund (MPF) moves resources rapidly to protect frontline organizers from state repression, vigilante violence, and digital attacks.

Project:

Movement Protection Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Solutions Journalism Network
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To provide general operating support to the Solutions Journalism Network so they can continue to scale and adapt the work of infusing solutions journalism practice in newsrooms, building a journalism practice that better equips and informs communities to address social issues and fosters civic participation.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Solutions Journalism Network
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2017

The purpose of this grant is to support Solutions Journalism Network in training journalists to develop solutions stories that investigate situations and provide reporting on alternate options to challenges unearthed within the investigations.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Aug 2017 to Jul 2019

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Solutions Journalism Network
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2021

The Democracy SOS Fellowship will provide training and resources to journalists in order to build a practice of more engagement, trust, and equity in civics, elections, and political reporting.

Project:

Democracy SOS

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Apr 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Solutions Project Inc
  • $2,250,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Solutions Project (TSP) funds and amplifies climate justice solutions created by grassroots organizations that are tackling the root causes of the climate crisis. TSP is an important force for building a more connected, visible, and solutions-oriented climate and migrant justice movement.

Project:

Climate and Migrant Justice Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • South Asian Americans Leading Together
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) is a nation­al move­ment strat­e­gy and advo­ca­cy orga­ni­za­tion working to promote racial jus­tice through fed­er­al pol­i­cy and advo­ca­cy, local and nation­al part­ner­ships, coali­tion build­ing, and strate­gic com­mu­ni­ca­tions.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
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