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
  • Narrative Initiative
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Narrative Initiative, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, works with social movements and changemakers to envision and strategize for narrative change that embodies a movement’s aspirations.

Project:

Narrative Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Assessment of the Impact of Social Media on the Health and Wellbeing of Adolescents and Children project will examine the current research and make conclusions about the impact of social media on the health and wellbeing of adolescents and children.

Project:

Social Media Impact Assessment

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

May 2022 to Apr 2024

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • National Affairs, Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

This project grant to the online and quarterly publication National Affairs will support its work to develop voices who can stand up for democratic norms and the rule of law. The grant will allow National Affairs to host a series of public and private events that highlight the work of journalists, academics and writers and connect them with like-minded thinkers and the conservative public. 

Project:

Conservative Voices for the Rule of Law

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Sep 2018 to Dec 2019

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • National Association of Black Journalists
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2019

This is a general operating grant to the National Association of Black Journalists that will build organizational capacity to continue their support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while holding the media accountable for recruitment and retention of black journalists as well as their portrayals of the black community through media narratives. 

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2021

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • National Association of Black Journalists
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The National Association of Black Journalists supports their members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities. They also hold the media accountable for recruitment and retention of black journalists as well as their portrayals of the black community through media narratives.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jun 2022 to May 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • National Association of Black Journalists
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) is executing its new Strategic Plan 2017-2020. In an effort to help leverage opportunities from the wealth of information derived from the plan, this grant will support partial funding for operational support to secure NABJ’s infrastructure.

Project:

Management Capacity

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Sep 2017 to Aug 2019

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • National Black Tech Ecosystem Association
  • $260,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The National Black Tech Ecosystem Association (dba Black Tech Futures Research Institute builds a national network of city-based researchers and practitioners conducting research on sustainable local black tech ecosystems. The outcomes of this work are actionable policy recommendations and a national public data archive.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Civil & Human Rights Online
  • National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2024

The National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP)’s Democracy Learning and Action Cohort will convene trustees and senior staff decision-makers of family philanthropies to encourage philanthropic and other civic investments that have the potential to strengthen and fortify democracy and voting rights in the U.S.

Project:

NCFP Learning and Action Cohort

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Redistricting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

May 2024 to Jan 2025

Strategy:

General
  • National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

National CAPACD’s 2021 AAPI Community Resilience Fund supports the racial healing and anti-racism work of recipient organizations, as well as their work to build multi-racial coalitions and strengthen solidarity work locally in neighborhoods. This work includes political education that combats anti-Blackness and advances a deeper understanding of diverse AAPI communities.

Project:

National CAPACD 2021 AAPI Community Resilience Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2021 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

General
  • National Conference of State Legislatures
  • $420,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2017

This grant will support the National Conference of State Legislatures’ Elections and Redistricting Program as it endeavors to grow and improve its elections administration programming and provide the best possible service to its members and their staffs. 

Project:

Elections & Redistricting Program Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Oct 2017 to Sep 2020

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • National Conference of State Legislatures
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2020

The National Conference of State Legislature’s Center for Legislative Strengthening (CLS) provides nonpartisan research and analysis for state legislators and legislative staff about legislative operations, procedure, and continuity planning. Their work bolsters the autonomy and effectiveness of the legislative branch of government in the 50 states and U.S. territories.

Project:

Center for Legislative Strengthening

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Dec 2020 to Mar 2022

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • National Conference of State Legislatures
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

The National Conference of State Legislatures’ Elections and Redistricting Program is promoting effective policymaking around elections and redistricting by providing accurate and bipartisan information and research on elections administration to state legislators, legislative staff, and election officials.

Project:

Elections & Redistricting Program Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Oct 2020 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • National Conference of State Legislatures
  • $350,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2015

The National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) will define and explain existing funding structures used for running fair, efficient and accurate elections and will seek out additional funding concepts for comparison.

Project:

Elections 2020: Policy, Funding and the Future

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Aug 2015 to Oct 2017

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • 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
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