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Grants Database

Democracy Fund champions the leaders and organizations who defend democracy and challenge it to be more open and just. We are proud to have supported more than 200 organizations doing this work.

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  • Accelerate Change, Inc.
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

Civic Revolution aims to transform democracy to be more responsive and representative of all communities through a coalition of digital media organizations dedicated to catalyzing civic engagement for diverse audiences.  

Project:

Civic Revolution

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

September 2022 to August 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Advancement Project
  • $175,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

Advancement Project is a next generation, multi-racial, policy, communications, and legal action group committed to civil rights and racial justice . They use innovative tools and strategies to strengthen social movements, achieve policy change and support local movements to ensure impacted communities are at the forefront of change.  

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

September 2020 to December 2021

Strategy:

General
  • Arch + Bow Productions LLC
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

Arch + Bow Productions LLC, a fiscally sponsored project of Documentary Educational Resources, Inc., created a documentary that elevates awareness of the role of local elections officials in hosting safe, secure, and voter centric elections in the U.S.  

Project:

RI LEO Film

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

October 2020 to April 2023

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Bipartisan Policy Center, Inc.
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Elections Project will convene three task forces focused on different aspects of the elections process to develop updated recommendations to address challenges in election administration, as well as identify ongoing gaps where states have yet to adopt PCEA recommendations.  

Project:

Elections Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

July 2019 to June 2020

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Bipartisan Policy Center, Inc.
  • $825,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2017

The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Democracy Project will continue their efforts to promote the Presidential Commission on Election Administration’s recommendations. These recommendations are meant to improve the quality of our elections.  

Project:

Democracy Project Elections

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

July 2017 to June 2019

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Bipartisan Policy Center, Inc.
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

The Bipartisan Policy Center’s Elections Project promotes recommendations that improve the quality of U.S. elections. Building on the work in 2019 of the Task Force on Elections, BPC will advance state and federal election reform with recommendations about new challenges in election administration.  

Project:

Democracy Project Elections Program

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

July 2020 to June 2022

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Bipartisan Policy Center, Inc.
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

The Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) Elections Project will promote recommendations that improve the quality of U.S. elections. Building on the work of the Task Force on Elections, BPC will advance state and federal election recommendations with a focus on addressing new challenges in election administration.  

Project:

Democracy Project Elections Program

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

September 2022 to August 2024

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

A fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc., BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund’s Spark Accelerator program provides funding, training, and other resources to organizers, founders, startup nonprofit organizations, and existing grassroots organizing and social justice advocacy groups working in under-resourced communities.  

Project:

BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

August 2023 to July 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

A fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc., BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund’s Spark Accelerator program provides funding, training, and other resources to organizers, founders, startup nonprofit organizations, and existing grassroots organizing and social justice advocacy groups working in under-resourced communities.  

Project:

BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

November 2021 to April 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Center for Civic Design
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2016

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating capacity for Center for Civic Design, a key (and overlooked) player in the elections field. Center for Civic Design supports many of our grantees and other organizations we work with. It needs assistance to expand its work this election year, which includes designing election materials, experimentation, and […]

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

June 2016 to May 2018

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Center for Civic Design
  • $514,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2018

To provide the Center for Civic Design with General Operating support.  

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

June 2018 to May 2021

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Center for Civic Design
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

The Center for Civid Design applies design thinking to how elections invite participation in the democratic process. They support election officials in making materials and processes clear, easy, and effective by researching the needs of voters for access, information, and opportunity to vote.  

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

August 2021 to July 2023

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Center for Civic Design
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The Center for Civid Design applies design thinking to how elections invite participation in the democratic process. They support election officials in making materials and processes clear, easy, and effective by researching the needs of voters for access, information, and opportunity to vote.  

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

October 2023 to September 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Center for Democracy and Technology
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2017

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)’s project will identify election cybersecurity issues and best practices in two critical areas: 1) voter registration databases and 2) campaign data and communications.  

Project:

Election Cybersecurity Research and Best Practices

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

August 2017 to July 2019

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • Center for Democracy and Technology
  • $600,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) will identify elections cybersecurity issues through research, convenings, and stakeholder and policymaker engagement. Previous CDT research has generated a set of nonpartisan best practices and strategies improving security within election offices and expanding the use of post-election auditing practices.  

Project:

Election Cybersecurity Research and Best Practices

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

August 2019 to July 2023

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • Center for Election Innovation & Research
  • $280,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2017

The purpose of this grant is to provide support for the Center for Election Innovation & Research, a new organization created by David Becker and Amy Cohen formerly with the Pew Charitable Trusts. CEIR will work to continue improving election administration by studying new trends in elections, working with election officials to ensure confidence in elections, help improve […]

Project:

Support for Center for Election Innovation & Research

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

April 2017 to March 2018

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Center for Election Innovation & Research
  • $625,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2018

The purpose of this grant is to provide continued support for the Center for Election Innovation & Research. CEIR will work to continue improving election administration by studying new trends in elections, working with election officials to ensure confidence in elections, improving communication with voters, and streamlining the administration of elections with technological and procedural advances.  

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

April 2018 to March 2021

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Center for Internet Security Inc.
  • $213,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2018

The purpose of the grant is to provide support for a companion guide to A Handbook for Elections Infrastructure Security that state and local elections officials can utilize to ensure cyber security is adequately addressed during IT procurement activities. Additionally, a training program will be developed to help election officials with conducting security self assessments and develop risk mitigation plans. […]

Project:

IT Procurement Guide and Training for Elections Infrastructure

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

June 2018 to July 2019

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • Center for Internet Security Inc.
  • $330,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

The Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) Election Security Best Practices team will develop security-focused tools and guidance for election officials and election technology providers.  

Project:

Election Security Tools and Training

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

August 2019 to January 2021

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • Center for Internet Security Inc.
  • $315,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

This grant supports the Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) Election Security Best Practices team’s development of security-focused tools and guidance for election officials and election technology providers.  

Project:

Election Security Tools

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

June 2021 to May 2023

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
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