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
  • National Conference on Citizenship
  • $102,630.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

Project Redesign at the National Conference on Citizenship supports EL-ISAC’s work to increase information security capabilities among local election officials through recommendations, tools, and metrics that can be used to evaluate their messaging’s success.

Project:

EI-ISAC Election Security Messaging Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2020 to May 2021

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • National Disability Rights Network, Inc.
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2018

To allow NDRN the capacity to educate election officials, advocates, and the public on the need to provide access to voting functions for voters with disabilities and to build tools to improve polling place accessibility.

Project:

Disability Access and Rights Awareness

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Nov 2018 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • National Disability Rights Network, Inc.
  • $248,613.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To provide the National Disability Rights Network the capacity to educate election officials, advocates, and the public on the need to provide access to voting functions for voters with disabilities and to build tools to improve polling place accessibility.

Project:

Disability Access and Rights Awareness

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2022

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

The NGA Center for Best Practices will provide resources and technical assistance to governors and their staff so state executive branches can better support election infrastructure security and resilience.

Project:

Election Security Governance

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Government

Grant Length:

Jun 2020 to Jun 2024

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2018

The purpose of this grant is to support the National Governors Association Center for Best Practices, Homeland Security & Public Safety Division, in their efforts to expand the participation of state executives in the dialogue around election security. The primary way this will occur is through the execution of a year-long cybersecurity policy academy with a cohort of five to seven states.

Project:

Implementing Election Security Governance

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to Jan 2020

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2022

The mission of the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators is to be the foremost organization serving and representing the interests of Hispanic state legislators from all states. The National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators (NHCSL) is organizing the first joint meeting of the Quad Caucus.

Project:

Quad Caucus Joint Series

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to May 2023

Strategy:

General
  • National Immigration Law Center
  • $1,200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2019

To support litigation and legal services to support targeted communities, particularly immigrant, refugee, and MASA communities.   

Project:

NILC immigration/masa support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Media, Other, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Nov 2022

Strategy:

General
  • National Immigration Law Center
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2017

To support litigation and legal services around the Muslim Ban and other immigration policies that impact MASA communities as well as Latino and other immigrant communities

Project:

Support Immigration Litigation and Legal Services

Foundation Center Topic:

Other, Media/Media Access and Policy, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Oct 2017 to Sep 2018

Strategy:

General
  • National Immigration Law Center
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2018

The purpose of this grant is to support litigation and legal services around issues pertaining to vulnerable communities – specifically MASA and immigrant communities.

Project:

Support Immigration Litigation and Legal Services

Foundation Center Topic:

Other, Media/Media Access and Policy, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to Nov 2019

Strategy:

General
  • National Immigration Law Center
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is one of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • National Issues Forum Institute
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

This grant will support National Issues Forum Institute (NIFI) and its partner –the Institute for Democratic Engagement and Accountability (IDEA) at The Ohio State University — in developing and promoting a new, deliberative town hall meeting module for use by congressional offices online. NIFI will develop materials for the modules and coordinate with IDEA and other partners to produce and distribute modules and monitor project progress.

Project:

Connecting to Congress

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to Nov 2019

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • National League of Cities Institute, Inc.
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To support the Center for City Solutions at the National League of Cities to develop and socialize a suite of tools and best practices for mayors of U.S. cities to develop nonpartisan programs within their own cities to improve citizen engagement in civic life. They will look to enlist 100 cities to participate in a way that works well for the city’s own culture. 

Project:

Educating Cities for Greater Engagement

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2019 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • National Network for Youth
  • $20,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2019

The purpose of this grant is to support wellness and healing for frontline staff at National Network for Youth, and to learn about strategies, resources, and needs in the field.  

Project:

RAD Healing and Wellness for National Network for Youth

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Apr 2020

Strategy:

General
  • National Partnership for New Americans
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

We Are All America (WAAA), a project of National Partnership for New Americans, works to uphold and strengthen our nation’s commitment to welcome and protect those seeking freedom, safety and refuge in the United States. WAAA organizes people across religious and cultural differences to build inclusive communities where we all belong.

Project:

We Are All America

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • National Partnership for New Americans
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Climate Justice Collaborative at the National Partnership for New Americans builds the capacity of affiliated immigrant grassroots organizations to engage in climate justice work in their communities, and impact national narratives around climate migration.

Project:

Climate Justice Collaborative

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • National Partnership for New Americans
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Climate Justice Collaborative at the National Partnership for New Americans builds the capacity of affiliated immigrant grassroots organizations to engage in climate justice work in their communities, and impact national narratives around climate migration.

Project:

Climate Justice Collaborative

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • National Partnership for New Americans
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

We Are All America (WAAA), a project of National Partnership for New Americans, works to uphold and strengthen our nation’s commitment to welcome and protect those seeking freedom, safety and refuge in the United States. WAAA organizes people across religious and cultural differences to build inclusive communities where we all belong.

Project:

We Are All America

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • National Press Photographers Foundation Inc
  • $10,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2018

The National Press Photographers Foundation work as educators and advocates for the rights of visual journalists and freedom of the press. The grant is to support NPPF’s legal advocacy on behalf of journalists and their work to educate journalists about their rights and their safety.

Project:

Supporting the National Press Photographers Foundation

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media

Grant Length:

May 2018 to Apr 2019

Strategy:

Press Freedom
  • National Security Archive Fund Inc
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2017

This grant will provide general operating support for the National Security Archive Fund that will allow them to increase their over-all capacity as an organization. The Archive has launched ten new openness and accountability initiatives to challenge the new administration. To accommodate this increased scale of work, the Archive must hire a full-time in-house litigator.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Apr 2017 to Apr 2019

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • National Security Archive Fund Inc
  • $225,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2019

General operating support to the National Security Archive Fund. 

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

May 2019 to Apr 2022

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
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