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Grants Database

Democracy Fund champions the leaders and organizations who defend democracy and challenge it to be more open and just. We are proud to have supported more than 200 organizations doing this work.

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  • 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

Strategy:

General
  • Justice Work
  • $10,000
  • 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

Strategy:

General
  • Kairos Fellowship Inc.
  • $1,000,000.00
  • 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

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

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

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

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Keep Our Republic Charitable Fund
  • $200,000.00
  • 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

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

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

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

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

Strategy:

General
  • 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 […]

Project:

Capacity Building for Videos and Podcasts

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

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • 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

Strategy:

General
  • 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

Strategy:

Civil & Human Rights Online
  • 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:

General Operating Support

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

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • 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

Strategy:

General
  • Leadership Conference Education Fund, Inc.
  • $75,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Leadership Conference Education Fund builds public will for laws and policies that promote and protect the civil and human rights of every person in the United States. They work on issues including voting rights, educational equity, and justice reform.

Project:

General Operating Support

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • 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

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
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