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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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  • 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 Enforcement

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

January 2014 to December 2014

Strategy:

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 Administration

Grant Length:

December 2014 to November 2017

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

December 2020 to November 2021

Strategy:

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 Vote

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

December 2017 to November 2020

Strategy:

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 Enforcement

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

January 2014 to December 2014

Strategy:

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 Administration

Grant Length:

December 2014 to November 2017

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

December 2020 to November 2021

Strategy:

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 Vote

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

December 2017 to November 2020

Strategy:

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 Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

October 2023 to September 2026

Strategy:

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 Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

October 2023 to September 2026

Strategy:

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 Agency

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

December 2023 to December 2024

Strategy:

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 Agency

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

December 2023 to December 2024

Strategy:

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 Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

November 2019 to November 2020

Strategy:

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 Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

November 2019 to November 2020

Strategy:

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 Series

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Judicial Selection and Performance

Grant Length:

May 2020 to July 2021

Strategy:

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 Series

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Judicial Selection and Performance

Grant Length:

May 2020 to July 2021

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

October 2023 to September 2026

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

October 2023 to September 2026

Strategy:

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 Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

December 2023 to November 2024

Strategy:

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.    

Project:

News Measures Research Project Phase 2

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

November 2016 to July 2018

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
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