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
  • Faith and Politics Institute
  • $140,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2012

The Faith & Politics Institute will explore the development of a network of faith leaders to promote civil discourse.

Project:

Better Angels Planning Grant

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

Nov 2012 to Nov 2013

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Faith and Politics Institute
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2014

Faith & Politics will work to perform strategic assessment of their programs to determine how and where best to grow.

Project:

Strategic Planning Grant

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Jul 2014 to May 2015

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Faith and Politics Institute
  • $500,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2014

The Faith & Politics Institute will work in a variety of ways to bring members of congress and their staffs together to build better, stronger and lasting relationships through meetings and transformative pilgrimages.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Jul 2014 to Jul 2016

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Faith and Politics Institute
  • $48,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2011

The Faith & Politics Institute will explore how faith leaders can contribute to improving civil discourse by convening a discussion among prominent faith leaders from across the political spectrum.

Project:

Better Angels Pilot Grant

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Dec 2011 to Jun 2012

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Faith and Politics Institute
  • $500,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2016

The Faith & Politics Institute works in a variety of ways to bring members of Congress and their staffs together to build better, stronger and lasting relationships through private reflection groups, public meetings and transformative pilgrimages.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Aug 2016 to Jul 2018

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Faith in Action Network
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Faith in Action Network uses organizing to address economic oppression, racism and discrimination. They work to build a society in which everyone lives in a safe and healthy environment, is respected and included, and has agency over the decisions that shape their lives.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Faith in Public Life, Inc.
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Faith in Public Life is a national movement of clergy and faith leaders united in the prophetic pursuit of justice, equality and the common good. Together, they are leading the fight to advance just policies at the local, state and federal levels.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Jul 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Faith in Public Life, Inc.
  • $275,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Faith in Public Life is a national movement of clergy and faith leaders united in the prophetic pursuit of justice, equality and the common good. Together, they are leading the fight to advance just policies at the local, state and federal levels.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Aug 2023 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Faith in Public Life, Inc.
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2017

This is a project grant to support Faith in Public Life as they undergo a process of building out their networks in 2-3 states with an explicit focus on building relationships with MASA community members and religious leaders. The goal being the establishment of secure networks that are prepared to offer practical measure of protection to members of the greater MASA community in the chosen locations should the need arise.

Project:

Building Clergy Protection Network

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Jun 2017 to May 2018

Strategy:

General
  • Faith in Public Life, Inc.
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2018

This is a project grant to support Faith in Public Life (FPL), as they build on their previous interfaith clergy trainings in FL, OH, and GA, and add NC, to focus on developing curricula for trained clergy to share with congregants, and strengthen the networks of protection for MASA communities. 

Project:

Building interfaith protection network

Foundation Center Topic:

Other, Media, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Sep 2018 to Aug 2019

Strategy:

General
  • Faith in Public Life, Inc.
  • $483,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2019

To support Faith in Public Life (FPL) as they build on their previous interfaith clergy trainings in Florida, Ohio, Georgia, and North Carolina, with a focus on strengthening existing networks of protection for MASA communities with developed curricula and further training. 

Project:

Interfaith protection network

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Media, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2019 to Apr 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Faith Matters Network Collaborative
  • $25,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

The Faith Matters Network’s Daring Compassion Movement Chaplaincy Project, a fiscally-sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, offers holistic wellness accompaniment to those leading social events, movements, and organizations.

Project:

Support for Faith Matters Network

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Faith Matters Network Collaborative
  • $110,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Faith Matters Network catalyzes personal and social change by equipping community organizers, faith leaders, and activists with resources for connection, spiritual sustainability, and accompaniment.

Project:

General Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Faith Matters Network Collaborative
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Faith Matters Network catalyzes personal and social change by equipping community organizers, faith leaders, and activists with resources for connection, spiritual sustainability, and accompaniment.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Federation of American Scientists
  • $103,500.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2019

The Federation of American Scientists’ Congressional Science Policy Initiative strengthens connections between the scientific community and congressional policymakers. They will develop an open source, web-based application that allows scientists, engineers, and technologists to engage with congressional committees.

Project:

Congressional Science Policy Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2020

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Field Foundation of Illinois Inc.
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2018

To support efforts to create a healthy local news ecosystem via a grant program that supports community-based journalism and media organizations in Chicago, with a focus on community-based journalism organizations led by people of color.

Project:

Chicago Local News Field Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media, Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to Nov 2019

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Field Foundation of Illinois Inc.
  • $225,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Chicago Media and Storytelling Program at the Field Foundation supports pivotal investments to increase the production of news and innovative content that is by, for, and about African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) communities and helps create a more inclusive, accurate, and comprehensive narrative of Chicago.

Project:

Chicago Media and Storytelling Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Field Foundation of Illinois Inc.
  • $400,190.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To support the Media and Storytelling Program at the Field Foundation, which supports pivotal investments to increase the production of news and innovative content that is by, for, and about African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) communities and helps create a more inclusive, accurate, and comprehensive narrative of Chicago.

Project:

Chicago Media and Storytelling Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Nov 2021

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Fight for the Future Education Fund
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Fight for the Future Education Fund is a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists harnessing the power of the Internet to channel outrage into action, defending people’s most basic rights in the digital age. They work to ensure that technology is a force for empowerment, free expression, and liberation rather than tyranny, corruption, and structural inequality.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Civil & Human Rights Online
  • First Draft News
  • $500,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To support First Draft News, a fiscally sponsored project of The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, in designing training programs at news outlets across the United States in resilience building and collaboration to provide ongoing support for journalists, technologists, and the public as they navigate the challenges of mis/disinformation.

Project:

Mis/disinformation Trainings

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Apr 2021

Strategy:

General
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