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
  • North Carolina Local News Lab Fund
  • $975,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The North Carolina Local News Lab Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc., is a pooled fund working to repair and transform the state’s news and information ecosystem. They envision a North Carolina where everyone can find, trust, and use the news and information they need to thrive.

Project:

North Carolina Local News Lab Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Nov 2026

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Northeastern University
  • $40,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2018

To support the efforts of Northeastern University’s Network Science Institute in conducting research around the role of misinformation on social media platforms during the 2018 election season and publishing relevant findings.

Project:

Northeastern Platform Research

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Nov 2018 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Northeastern University
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Center for Communication, Media Innovation & Social Change at Northeastern University explores the intersection of media and communication with race, gender, power and media advocacy/social activism.

Project:

Northeastern Center for Communications, Media Innovation and Social Change

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Jul 2024

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc., dba Texas Civil Rights Project
  • $500,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

This grant provides general operating support for Texas Civil Rights Project. Texas Civil Rights Project protects the civil rights of Texans through their work on economic justice, voting rights, and criminal justice.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Jul 2020 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc., dba Texas Civil Rights Project
  • $175,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2017

This grant will provide support to Texas Civil Rights Project’s (TCRP) High School Voter Registration Project. This grant will provide TCRP with support to continue its work with the Secretary of State, high schools, voter registrars, and other relevant stakeholders to improve compliance in this area. TCRP will build important relationships between these entities while encouraging compliance with the law.

Project:

High School Voter Registration Project

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Nov 2018

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc., dba Texas Civil Rights Project
  • $390,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2018

To provide support to the Texas Civil Rights Project’s ongoing work to increase compliance with the state’s high school voter registration law, increase Section 5 compliance through litigation, and develop pro-voter policy blueprints in Texas’ largest counties.

Project:

High School Voter Registration and Section 5 Litigation

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to May 2020

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc., dba Texas Civil Rights Project
  • $450,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc., dba Texas Civil Rights Project protects the civil rights of Texans through their work on economic justice, voting rights, and criminal justice.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc., dba Texas Civil Rights Project
  • $20,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2018

The purpose of this grant is to provide capacity building support to the Grantee as they engage in executive coaching and management training.

Project:

TCRP Capacity-Building Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2018 to May 2019

Strategy:

General
  • Oklahoma Media Center
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Oklahoma Media Center (OMC) supports and strengthens Oklahoma’s local journalism ecosystem. A nonpartisan 501(c)(3), OMC includes over 25 news outlets, ranging from broadcast to nonprofit to Indigenous and Black-owned media outlets to longstanding newspapers. They provide funding, best-practices training to elevate the industry, and collaborative support for local newsrooms.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jul 2023 to Jun 2026

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • One America Movement
  • $170,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2020

To support One America Movement, a fiscally sponsored project of Repair the World, to conduct leadership development trainings focused on polarization and pluralism. 

Project:

Support for One America Movement project

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Apr 2020 to Mar 2022

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • One America Movement
  • $85,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

One America Movement provides leadership development for leaders of congregations and faith communities to promote pluralism, fight toxic polarization, and advocate for an inclusive American identity.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Apr 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

General
  • One America Movement
  • $85,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

One America Movement provides leadership development for leaders of congregations and faith communities to promote pluralism, fight toxic polarization, and advocate for an inclusive American identity.

Project:

One America Movement

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

General
  • One Voice Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2018

To support One Voice’s efforts to build relationships with election clerks, conduct research on potential cost savings associated with online voter registration, and build capacity among the coalition of organizations in Mississippi working on elections issues.

Project:

Mississippi Registration Modernization and Capacity-Building

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to Nov 2019

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Online News Association
  • $291,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2013

The competitive Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education will support “live news experiments” that further the development of teaching hospital models in journalism education, in which students create innovative projects with professionals, professors and researchers.

Project:

Support Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Oct 2013 to Oct 2016

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Online News Association
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2018

To support journalism schools as laboratories for innovation through the ONA Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education. The competitive Challenge Fund supports “live news experiments” that further the development of teaching hospital models in journalism education. The Fund aims to hack the journalism ecosystem to encourage more collaborative local news coverage, community engagement, and digital innovation.

Project:

Renewal for the Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to Jan 2021

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Online News Association
  • $420,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Online News Association (ONA) works to build a stronger journalism field that serves an engaged and informed public. Their programs for digital journalists and related fields include professional development, community-building, shared learning, and more.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Aug 2023 to Nov 2025

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Online News Association
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Online News Association (ONA) works to build a stronger journalism field that serves an engaged and informed public. Their programs for digital journalists and related fields include professional development, community-building, shared learning, and more.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jun 2022 to May 2023

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Online News Association
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2015

The purpose of this grant is to provide funds to run another two years of the collegiate grants contest around experimentation and expanding journalism practices.

Project:

ONA Year 3

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2015 to Nov 2018

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Online News Association
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2021

This grant provides general operating support to the Online News Association.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Feb 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Open News
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

OpenNews, a fiscally sponsored project of Community Partners, helps journalists create authentic, trusting relationships and to build a community of support. This grant supports their ongoing efforts to increase peer support and peer learning among the journalists they serve.

Project:

Open News

Foundation Center Topic:

Media

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
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