Ideas
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.
- Dēmos: A Network for Ideas and Action LTD
- $222,465.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2013
Demos will conduct research on the level of state compliance with the motor voter provision of the National Voter Registration Act.
Project:
Research on Motor Voter EnforcementFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
January 2014 to December 2014Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Dēmos: A Network for Ideas and Action LTD
- $750,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2014
This grant will provide $750,000 over three years to DEMOS, to contribute to their work in enforcing the requirements of the National Voter Registration Act-that state motor vehicle agencies comply with the requirement to provide information and assistance to register to vote at all state facilities.
Project:
Motor-voter compliance.Foundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
December 2014 to November 2017Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Dēmos: A Network for Ideas and Action LTD
- $125,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2020
Through cutting-edge policy research, inspiring litigation and deep relationships with grassroots organizations, Demos champions solutions that will create a democracy and economy rooted in racial equity
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
December 2020 to November 2021Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Dēmos: A Network for Ideas and Action LTD
- $925,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2017
This grant will provide funding to Demos to continue its work in enforcing the requirements of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) that state motor vehicle agencies provide information and assistance to register to vote at all state facilities. This grant will also provide limited assistance to engage in Section 8 compliance efforts in states and […]
Project:
Freedom to VoteFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
December 2017 to November 2020Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Dēmos: A Network for Ideas and Action LTD
- $222,465.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2013
Demos will conduct research on the level of state compliance with the motor voter provision of the National Voter Registration Act.
Project:
Research on Motor Voter EnforcementFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
January 2014 to December 2014Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Dēmos: A Network for Ideas and Action LTD
- $750,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2014
This grant will provide $750,000 over three years to DEMOS, to contribute to their work in enforcing the requirements of the National Voter Registration Act-that state motor vehicle agencies comply with the requirement to provide information and assistance to register to vote at all state facilities.
Project:
Motor-voter compliance.Foundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
December 2014 to November 2017Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Dēmos: A Network for Ideas and Action LTD
- $125,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2020
Through cutting-edge policy research, inspiring litigation and deep relationships with grassroots organizations, Demos champions solutions that will create a democracy and economy rooted in racial equity
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
December 2020 to November 2021Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Dēmos: A Network for Ideas and Action LTD
- $925,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2017
This grant will provide funding to Demos to continue its work in enforcing the requirements of the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) that state motor vehicle agencies provide information and assistance to register to vote at all state facilities. This grant will also provide limited assistance to engage in Section 8 compliance efforts in states and […]
Project:
Freedom to VoteFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
December 2017 to November 2020Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Detroit Community Technology Project
- $750,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
Detroit Community Tech Project (DCTP), a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects Inc., uses and creates technology rooted in community needs that strengthens neighbors’ connection to each other, and to the planet.
Project:
Detroit Community Tech ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
October 2023 to September 2026Strategy:
Equitable Civic Infrastructure- Detroit Community Technology Project
- $750,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
Detroit Community Tech Project (DCTP), a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects Inc., uses and creates technology rooted in community needs that strengthens neighbors’ connection to each other, and to the planet.
Project:
Detroit Community Tech ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
October 2023 to September 2026Strategy:
Equitable Civic Infrastructure- Detroit Narrative Agency
- $100,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2023
Detroit Narrative Agency (DNA), a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, is a community organization that disrupts harmful narratives about Detroit. They do this by supporting Black, Indigenous, People of Color Detroiters to explore and create media storytelling projects that build collective healing, power and liberation.
Project:
Detroit Narrative AgencyFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
December 2023 to December 2024Strategy:
General- Detroit Narrative Agency
- $100,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2023
Detroit Narrative Agency (DNA), a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, is a community organization that disrupts harmful narratives about Detroit. They do this by supporting Black, Indigenous, People of Color Detroiters to explore and create media storytelling projects that build collective healing, power and liberation.
Project:
Detroit Narrative AgencyFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
December 2023 to December 2024Strategy:
General- Do Something Inc.
- $125,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
To support Do Something to build out additional capacity for further expansion into the civic engagement space and to utilize their capacity of young volunteers, tech reminders, and media campaigns in order to test different elements of the voter turnout moonshot. These activities will include using their parallel media campaign, which promotes earned and paid […]
Project:
Moonshot ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
November 2019 to November 2020Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Do Something Inc.
- $125,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
To support Do Something to build out additional capacity for further expansion into the civic engagement space and to utilize their capacity of young volunteers, tech reminders, and media campaigns in order to test different elements of the voter turnout moonshot. These activities will include using their parallel media campaign, which promotes earned and paid […]
Project:
Moonshot ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
November 2019 to November 2020Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Documentary Educational Resources Inc.
- $75,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2020
Documentary Educational Resources is producing a two-part radio documentary series on judicial independence. The series, airing nationally on public radio affiliates, will explore the history of politicization of the U.S. judiciary and explore strategies and reforms to maintain the independence and legitimacy of the courts.
Project:
Humankind Radio - Judicial Independence SeriesFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Judicial Selection and PerformanceGrant Length:
May 2020 to July 2021Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- Documentary Educational Resources Inc.
- $75,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2020
Documentary Educational Resources is producing a two-part radio documentary series on judicial independence. The series, airing nationally on public radio affiliates, will explore the history of politicization of the U.S. judiciary and explore strategies and reforms to maintain the independence and legitimacy of the courts.
Project:
Humankind Radio - Judicial Independence SeriesFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Judicial Selection and PerformanceGrant Length:
May 2020 to July 2021Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- Documented Ltd
- $450,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2023
Documented Ltd is a non-profit news site devoted solely to covering New York City’s immigrants and the policies that affect their lives. They break the cycle of extractive immigration reporting through listening to New York’s immigrant communities. Their insights inform Documented’s work to create journalism in response to their needs.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
October 2023 to September 2026Strategy:
Journalism & Power Building- Documented Ltd
- $450,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2023
Documented Ltd is a non-profit news site devoted solely to covering New York City’s immigrants and the policies that affect their lives. They break the cycle of extractive immigration reporting through listening to New York’s immigrant communities. Their insights inform Documented’s work to create journalism in response to their needs.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
October 2023 to September 2026Strategy:
Journalism & Power Building- Duke University
- $120,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy project brings together local news researchers and others to collaborate on a journalism ecosystem funding model that explores how to fund healthy local news ecosystems.
Project:
DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy Journalism Funding Model ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
December 2023 to November 2024Strategy:
News & Information Ecosystems- Duke University
- $225,325.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2016
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.