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
  • Hearken
  • $465,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The Election SOS project at Hearken, a fiscally sponsored project of Policy Impact, provides training, coaching, and capacity support to journalists for more engaged, trusted, and responsive elections coverage.

Project:

Election SOS

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Dec 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Hearken
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

Hearken’s Election SOS project, a fiscally sponsored project of the American Press Institute, provides training, coaching, and capacity support to journalists for more engaged, trusted, and responsive elections coverage in 2022.

Project:

Election SOS

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

May 2022 to Nov 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Hope CommUnity Center, Inc.
  • $500,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Hope CommUnity Center in Apopka, Florida fosters diverse, empowered, learning communities engaged in personal and societal transformation. Through service and advocacy, they stand with immigrants and others who are tenacious and courageous in the face of all systems of oppression.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Human Rights First
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI), a project of Human Rights First, is a coalition of veterans and allies who continue their service to America by upholding, defending, and advocating for human rights at home and abroad.

Project:

Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI)

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Human Rights First
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

To support the Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI) project as they continue to organize veterans and chapters to speak out to counter Islamophobia, to advocate for refugees, and to bridge divides. In particular, this grant will support VFAI’s veteran trainings and bi-annual convenings, service and community events, and their 29/29 Ramadan initiative.

Project:

Veterans for American Ideals - countering islamophobia

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to Nov 2019

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Human Rights First
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2017

This grant will support Vets for American Ideals (“VFAI”). VFAI will continue to organize support amongst its chapters of veterans to speak out against anti-Muslim rhetoric. VFAI do so by with expanded capacity in the form of a field coordinator and a junior communications associate. 

Project:

Vets countering islamophobia

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to Oct 2018

Strategy:

General
  • Human Rights First
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI), a project of Human Rights First, is a coalition of veterans and allies who continue their service to America by upholding, defending, and advocating for human rights at home and abroad.

Project:

Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI)

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Human Rights First
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2020

The Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI) project organizes veterans to speak out to counter Islamophobia, advocate for refugees, and bridge divides. This grant will also support VFAI’s veteran trainings and bi-annual convenings, service and community events, and their 29/29 Ramadan initiative.

Project:

Veterans for American Ideals

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Jul 2020 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

General
  • iCivics Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

This grant will support iCivics’ strategic planning efforts to coordinate a network of presidential library foundations and the National Archives Foundation to work collaboratively to establish a common set of measurement tools, support opportunities to develop joint civics programming, and explore a national communications strategy to promote and enhance civic education. 

Project:

Planning Grant for Civic Education Network

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Oct 2018 to Mar 2019

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • iCivics Inc.
  • $75,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

The purpose of this grant is to support planning between centers for the study of Congress, the presidential libraries and iCivics, and will result in a shared strategic plan that will facilitate collaboration and collective impact among these organizations, with the goal of increased civic awareness, especially with regard to Congress.

Project:

iCivics Planning Grant

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Oct 2018 to Mar 2019

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • iCivics Inc.
  • $75,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

The purpose of this grant is to support development of a joint strategic plan between iCivics and the centers for the study of Congress, led by the Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the United States Senate. The strategic plan will include documentation of planning activities, a summary of the assessment of required program enhancements, and an outline of next steps required for program scaling.

Project:

Network Building for Centers for the Study of Congress

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Oct 2018 to Mar 2019

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Ignite
  • $99,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2016

This grant will support efforts by IGNITE and Empowered Women to bring together women-focused organizations and to help them plan ways to work together to achieve political parity in the United States. These organizations will do this through strategic planning and holding convenings of organizations who have similar goals but do not always work together toward those common goals. 

Project:

Strategic Planning Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Dec 2016 to Dec 2017

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights promotes the rights of immigrants and refugees to full and equal participation in the civic, cultural, social, and political life of our diverse society.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2024 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Immigrant Legal Resource Center
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2018

To provide continued support for the New Americans Campaign’s effort to assist permanent residents along the path to citizenship.

Project:

New Americans Campaign II

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to Nov 2019

Strategy:

General
  • Immigrant Legal Resource Center
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2017

The purpose of this grant is to provide support for the New Americans Campaign (NAC), which will in turn support multilingual hotlines to advise and assist eligible legal permanent residents (LPR) in becoming U.S. citizens. The grant will also support the NAC’s Innovation Fund, including resources to help NAC partners to move more people along the path to becoming citizens.

Project:

New Americans Campaign Outreach, Innovation, and Services

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Nov 2018

Strategy:

General
  • Indiana University
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

This grant will support the development and testing of Hoaxy Bot-o-Meter, a tool to uncover attempts to boost the spread of misinformation online. Hoaxy Bot-o-Meter will uncover and display how information from such questionable sources is generated and rebroadcasted.

Project:

Hoaxy Bot-O-Meter

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jul 2017 to Jun 2018

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Informing Democracy Education Fund
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

Informing Democracy brings together election professionals, researchers, and lawyers who are providing research and information about what happens in election administration after votes are cast. They are building a central repository of research and information about how votes are counted and elections are certified in order to protect the integrity of our elections.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Apr 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Inland Empire Community Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Inland Empire Journalism Hub at the Inland Empire Community Foundation is a platform for cooperative journalism, fostering collaboration, community engagement, and a vibrant exchange of ideas.

Project:

Inland Empire Journalism Hub

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Inner-City Muslim Action Network
  • $400,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) was established with the goal of addressing structural and systemic injustices in inner-city communities by employing integrative holistic interventions. These include support services in: healthcare, ReEntry, arts access, community engagement and safety as well as inter-generational organizing and advocacy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Inner-City Muslim Action Network
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) was established with the goal of addressing structural and systemic injustices in inner-city communities by employing integrative holistic interventions. These include support services in: healthcare, ReEntry, arts access, community engagement and safety as well as inter-generational organizing and advocacy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
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