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.
- URL Media Holdings Inc
- $620,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
URL Media, a fiscally sponsored project of the Journalism Funding Partners, builds and supports a network of Black and Brown led newsrooms to harness their collective power and content for distribution, sustainability, and audience growth.
Project:
URL MediaFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Aug 2023 to Jul 2026Strategy:
Journalism & Power Building- URL Media Holdings Inc
- $215,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2022
URL Media, a fiscally sponsored project of the Journalism Funding Partners, builds and supports a network of Black and Brown led newsrooms to harness their collective power and content for distribution, sustainability, and audience growth.
Project:
URL MediaFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Aug 2022 to Jul 2023Strategy:
Journalism & Power Building- URL Media Holdings Inc
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2021
URL Media, a project of the International Women’s Media Foundation, is building and supporting a network of Black- and Brown-led newsrooms to harness their collective power and content for distribution, sustainability, and audience growth.
Project:
URL MediaFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Jul 2021 to Jun 2022Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- US Vote Foundation
- $50,000.00
- Network Grant
- Elections and Voting
- 2013
The Mini-Grant serves to incorporate the Fact-Check.org data into the My Voter Account information, such that people can get customizable fact check information on their elected members of congress.
Project:
Mini-GrantFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Jan 2014 to Jan 2015Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- US Vote Foundation
- $250,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2013
The End-to-End Verifiable Internet Voting Specification and Feasibility Assessment Study will examine a form of remote voting that enables a so-called “end-to-end verifiability” (E2E) property. A unique team of experts in computer science, usability, and auditing together with a selection of local election officials from key counties around the U.S. will assemble for this study.
Project:
End-to-End Verifiable Internet Voting Specification and Feasibility Assessment StudyFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Nov 2013 to May 2015Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- US Vote Foundation
- $50,000.00
- Network Grant
- Elections and Voting
- 2015
Increase the amount of information available through the U.S. Vote Civic Data Application Programming Interface (API), including state voter requirements, election dates and deadlines, and voting methods. This will increase Rock the Vote access to information for their users.
Project:
Civic Data API Extension & Voter Alerts Project ProposalFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Dec 2015 to Dec 2016Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Values United d/b/a Whistleblower Aid
- $300,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2020
Whistleblower Aid’s mission is to report and fix government and corporate lawbreaking — without breaking the law. Their lawyers help clients to stay safe while making impactful disclosures that change policies, because should have to risk their career or their freedom to follow their conscience.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Dec 2020 to Nov 2022Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- Values United d/b/a Whistleblower Aid
- $200,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2024
Whistleblower Aid’s mission is to report and fix government and corporate lawbreaking — without breaking the law. Their lawyers help clients to stay safe while making impactful disclosures that change policies, because should have to risk their career or their freedom to follow their conscience.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Dec 2024 to Nov 2025Strategy:
Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power- Values United d/b/a Whistleblower Aid
- $200,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2023
Whistleblower Aid’s mission is to report and fix government and corporate lawbreaking — without breaking the law. Their lawyers help clients to stay safe while making impactful disclosures that change policies, because should have to risk their career or their freedom to follow their conscience.
Project:
Whistleblower AidFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2024Strategy:
Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power- Values United d/b/a Whistleblower Aid
- $200,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2022
Whistleblower Aid’s mission is to report and fix government and corporate lawbreaking — without breaking the law. Their lawyers help clients to stay safe while making impactful disclosures that change policies, because should have to risk their career or their freedom to follow their conscience.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Dec 2022 to Nov 2023Strategy:
Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power- Vanderbilt University
- $200,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2021
The Monkey Cage is a platform which seeks to contribute timely, accessible, evidence-based analysis to public policy conversations.
Project:
The Monkey CageFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Dec 2021 to Nov 2023Strategy:
General- Vanderbilt University
- $300,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2018
To support George Washington University’s The Monkey Cage in its efforts to make the political conversation more informed by timely, accessible, and sound research from a publicly oriented political science discipline and less dominated by evidence-free arguments. This is achieved by increasing the public engagement of political scientists and other academics and connecting academics with key audiences among journalists, policy analysts, and lay readers.
Project:
The Monkey CageFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Dec 2018 to Nov 2021Strategy:
General- Vet Voice Foundation Inc
- $125,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2024
Vet Voice Foundation empowers veterans and military families to have a voice in our democracy by providing them with the support, training, and tools to shape policy and impact outcomes in their communities.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of LawGrant Length:
Oct 2024 to Sep 2025Strategy:
Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power- Voice of San Diego
- $188,413.96
- Project
- Public Square
- 2015
The purpose of this grant is to support Voice of San Diego’s Membership Academy.
Project:
Membership Academy SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Dec 2015 to Dec 2017Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Voice of San Diego
- $100,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2017
This is a general operating grant to support Voice of San Diego’s work providing critical local reporting to the citizens of their region.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2017 to Oct 2018Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Voice of the People
- $350,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2015
Building on the infrastructure established in the first phase of the project, we propose to carry out Citizen Cabinet surveys on seven new policy topics in an expanded number of states as well as with a national sample and to more broadly promote the idea of the Citizen Cabinet to Congress, the media and the public. This grant will also work to help VOP find a new long-term home for this project with more robust institutional resources.
Project:
Citizen Cabinet Pilot Project RenewalFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2015 to Apr 2017Strategy:
Previous Strategy- Voice of the People
- $350,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2013
Demonstrate how a Citizen Cabinet could provide federal policy makers with a new resource for understanding the views of their constituents by piloting the process in a small number of districts.
Project:
Citizen Cabinet Pilot ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Oct 2013 to Apr 2015Strategy:
Previous Strategy- Vote Early Day
- $30,000.00
- Project
- General and Field Building
- 2022
Vote Early Day, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center, is a nonpartisan movement of media companies, businesses, nonprofits, election administrators, and creatives working to ensure all Americans have the tools to vote early.
Project:
Vote Early Day 2022Foundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
Sep 2022 to Dec 2022Strategy:
General- Voter Registration Project
- $500,000.00
- General Operating Support
- President's Office
- 2022
Voter Registration Project’s (VRP) works to create a more representative democracy by narrowing the registration gap between Black, Indigenous, LatinX, Hispanic, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander voters and white voters. VRP funds and coordinates non-partisan voter registration efforts and works with in-state, community-based organizations and 501(c)(3) civic engagement tables.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
Sep 2022 to Aug 2023Strategy:
General- Voter Registration Project
- $973,000.00
- General Operating Support
- President's Office
- 2023
Voter Registration Project’s (VRP) works to create a more representative democracy by narrowing the registration gap between Black, Indigenous, LatinX, Hispanic, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander voters and white voters. VRP funds and coordinates non-partisan voter registration efforts and works with in-state, community-based organizations and 501(c)(3) civic engagement tables.