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
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • $480,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To support the Technology and Social Change Research Project in researching coordinated inauthentic activity to promote mis/disinformation that could impact US democratic processes including rule of law issues, elections, and their impact on Black, Indigenous, and people of color.

Project:

Technology and Social Change Research Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • $240,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2019

To support the Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Project:

Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center support for the Senior Practice Fellowship in American Democracy

Foundation Center Topic:

Government, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Dec 2021

Strategy:

General
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

The Guinier Project, an initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, will examine alternative voting systems through a racial justice lens.

Project:

The Guinier Project

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2017

This grant will support the Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Project:

Harvard Kennedy School Ash Center Senior Practice Fellowship in American Democracy

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Nov 2018

Strategy:

General
  • President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College
  • $85,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

The Trust Project is developing tools and technologies to make quality news easy for the public to identify and technology platforms to surface.

Project:

Planning Grant for The Trust Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jul 2017 to Mar 2019

Strategy:

Press Freedom
  • President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College
  • $90,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2019

To support the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University, which is developing a research agenda and public facing initiatives to translate their research to advance solidarity journalism.

Project:

RAD Support for Solidarity Journalism

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Nov 2021

Strategy:

General
  • Press On South Inc
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2021

Press On is a Southern media collective that catalyzes change and advances justice through the practice of movement journalism.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Dec 2022

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Press On South Inc
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To support PressOn, a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, in their continued work on media ecosystem analyses in the South.

Project:

Southern Media Community Needs Assessment

Foundation Center Topic:

Media, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2020

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Press On South Inc
  • $180,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

PressOn, a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, is building a diverse set of resources, including trainings, fellowships and opportunities for network-building, to help journalists and storytellers produce reporting that’s driven by communities in the South.

Project:

PressOn / Center for Movement Journalism

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2020 to Nov 2021

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Prism Reports, Inc.
  • $465,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Prism provides in-depth and thought-provoking journalism in order to reflect the lived experiences of people most impacted by injustice, disrupting harmful narratives and informing movements for justice.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Pro Publica Inc.
  • $3,000,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2017

This grant is to support investigative reporting. It is part of a larger package of grants around investigative journalism that is meant to expand the critical capacity of nonprofit investigative journalism as a robust fourth estate. The grant will empower those newsrooms to pursue rigorous journalism that keeps the government accountable to the American people.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Apr 2017 to Mar 2019

Strategy:

Investigative Journalism
  • Pro Publica Inc.
  • $700,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To support ProPublica’s investigative journalism as a critical check and balance on power. The grant will provide ProPublica with general operating support to help them fulfill their role as a core part of America’s fourth estate. 

Project:

Investigative Journalism Special Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Jun 2021

Strategy:

Investigative Journalism
  • ProGeorgia State Table Inc
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

ProGeorgia is a bold, trusted, and diverse collaborative that champions an equitable and inclusive democracy, for and with traditionally underrepresented communities. They support and coordinate the civic engagement programs of their diverse partner organizations.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • ProGeorgia State Table Inc
  • $675,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

The Childcare Fund at ProGeorgia State Table Inc. will support access to affordable childcare for women of color among their 38 table partners. With safe and reliable childcare during the pandemic, these individuals will be able to continue the urgent work of voter engagement and delivery of direct services in vulnerable communities.

Project:

ProGeorgia Childcare Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2020 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

General
  • ProgressNow New Mexico Education Fund
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

ProgressNow NM Education Fund works with coalitions to promote progressive ideas and causes with creative, earned media strategies, digital organizing, and cutting-edge new media.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Civil & Human Rights Online
  • Protect Democracy Project
  • $1,900,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2019

General operating support to the Protect Democracy Project. 

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Dec 2022

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • Protect Democracy Project
  • $2,250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Formed by lawyers who served at the highest levels of the federal government, the Protect Democracy Project works to inform Americans of specific threats to their right to free, fair, and fully-informed self-government.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Mar 2026

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Protect Democracy Project
  • $700,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2017

 The Protect Democracy Project is investigating government actions, engaging in public outreach and education, encouraging oversight by existing government mechanisms, and, when appropriate, bringing litigation against government actions that threaten our democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • Proteus Fund Inc.
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2013

The Collaborative Communications Initiative will improve the communications capacity of the campaign finance reform community.

Project:

Collaborative Communications Inititative on Money in Politics

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance

Grant Length:

Jan 2014 to Jan 2016

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Proteus Fund Inc.
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2018

To provide support for the Security & Rights Collaborative (SRC), a Proteus Fund initiative. SRC’s primary grantmaking focus is to support a diverse field of organizations working to address anti-Muslim bigotry, xenophobia, and more, by building capacity of Muslim, Arab and South Asian (MASA) community based and grassroots organizations.  

Project:

Security and Rights Collaborative

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2018 to Aug 2019

Strategy:

General
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