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
  • International Refugee Assistance Project Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) works for a more humane, efficient, and welcoming refugee and asylum processes in the United States by empowering displaced persons to use the law as a tool to claim their rights, through an aligned program of legal aid, impact litigation, and advocacy.

Project:

Project support to IRAP

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • International Women's Media Foundation
  • $400,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) is the only global organization built to serve the holistic needs of women and nonbinary journalists. They are a bold and inclusive organization that supports journalists where they are with awards, reporting opportunities, fellowships, grants, safety training and emergency aid.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Aug 2023 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • International Women's Media Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The International Women’s Media Foundation’s Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund offers stipends to women-identifying Black journalists facing financial hardship to access critical mental health services.

Project:

Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Jul 2022 to Jun 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • International Women's Media Foundation
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

International Women’s Media Foundation’s Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund offers stipends to women-identifying Black journalists facing financial hardship to access critical mental health services.

Project:

Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media

Grant Length:

Oct 2020 to Jan 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Internet Archive
  • $49,634.00
  • Network Grant
  • General and Field Building
  • 2015

The purpose of this grant is to train journalists on using the Internet Archive’s new digital library resources of political ads and television news.

Project:

Political TV Ad Archive 2016

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2015 to Dec 2016

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Internet Archive
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2016

The Political TV Ad Archive provides a searchable, viewable, and shareable online archive of 2016 political TV ads, with fact-checking and reporting citizens can trust. The project is open source and available on Github.

Project:

Political TV Ad Archive 2016 II

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance

Grant Length:

Sep 2016 to Aug 2017

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Internet Archive
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2014

The Sunlight Foundation, Philadelphia’s Committee of Seventy, and the Internet Archive will be matching up the political ads with FCC-mandated public inspection file data from each station to uncover which groups paid how much for each political ad.

Project:

Philadelphia Media Ecosystem Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance

Grant Length:

Oct 2014 to Sep 2015

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Internews Network
  • $225,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2018

Internews is an organization working to ensure access to trusted, quality information that empowers people to have a voice in their future and to live healthy, secure, and rewarding lives. The purpose of this grant is to support the Listening Post Collective,  a multi-city project that seeks to offer resources, tools, peer-to-peer support and a shared learning space for journalists, newsroom leaders and community groups looking to revitalize their local news and information ecosystems. 

Project:

Listening Post Collective

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2018 to Nov 2020

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Internews Network
  • $260,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

The Listening Post Collective, a project of Internews, uses strategy and capacity building for local and community news primarily led by and serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, to build engaged and trusted journalism. Their programs focus on news deserts and place-based community media systems.

Project:

Listening Post Collective

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2020 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Internews Network
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Listening Post Collective, a project of Internews, uses strategy and capacity building for local and community news primarily led by and serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, to build engaged and trusted journalism. Their programs focus on news deserts and place-based community media systems.

Project:

Listening Post Collective

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Internews Network
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Listening Post Collective, a project of Internews, uses strategy and capacity building for local and community news primarily led by and serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, to build engaged and trusted journalism. Their programs focus on news deserts and place-based community media systems.

Project:

Listening Post Collective

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Apr 2024 to Dec 2025

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Islamic Society of North America
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2020

To support the Shoulder to Shoulder campaign, inside of Islamic Society of North America, in their initiative on interfaith and islamophobia trainings and workshops.  These training are called Faith over Fear, and this grant will support Shoulder to Shoulder’s Ramadan work, as well.  

Project:

Shoulder to Shoulder Islamophobia trainings

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

May 2020 to Apr 2021

Strategy:

General
  • Islamic Society of North America
  • $115,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2018

To support the work of the Islamic Society of North America’s Shoulder to Shoulder initiative in interfaith, islamophobia trainings – entitled Faith Over Fear trainings – in up to ten geographic regions of the United States. This Grant will also support Shoulder to Shoulder’s Ramadan Road Trip 2019 network-building scoping work for the trainings, as well as a monitoring and evaluation consultant.

Project:

Shoulder to Shoulder Islamophobia Trainings

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2018 to Jan 2020

Strategy:

General
  • ISRC Education Fund
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The Independent Strategic Research Collaborative Education Fund (ISRC), a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, provides research, messaging development, and research and communications alignment to the pro-democracy movement. Their work includes facilitating convening spaces for leaders to share intel, strategy, messaging guidance, and calls to action.

Project:

ISRC Education Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Jan 2026

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • ISRC Education Fund
  • $700,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

The Independent Strategic Research Collaborative Education Fund (ISRC), a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, provides research, messaging development, and research and communications alignment to the pro-democracy movement. Their work includes facilitating convening spaces for leaders to share intel, strategy, messaging guidance, and calls to action.

Project:

ISRC Education Fund Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

Nov 2021 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • Issue One
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

The Elections Communications Hub, a communications hub led by Issue One, The Democracy Communications Collaborative, and the Future US will support 20+ nonpartisan organizations focused on election protection and trust-building by building on existing coordination efforts with dedicated staff and state-of-the-art tools.

Project:

Elections Communications Hub

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Aug 2024 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Issue One
  • $75,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2013

The Fund for the Republic will conduct research on conservative attitudes towards campaign finance reform.

Project:

Conservative Lighthouse Research

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance

Grant Length:

Jul 2013 to Jul 2014

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Issue One
  • $1,480,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2019

General operating support to Issue One. 

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance, Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Jun 2019 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • Issue One
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2020

The Rebuild Congress Initiative (RCI), a project of Issue One, seeks to better understand congressional dysfunction and aims to build bipartisan coalitions in support of congressional reform measures⁠ — especially efforts to increase congressional capacity⁠.

Project:

The Rebuild Congress Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Jul 2020 to Jul 2023

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Issue One
  • $350,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2017

Issue One’s Ethics and Accountability Project conducts research and investigations of ethics and accountability issues, watchdog efforts to hold public officials accountable, and the development of white papers, narratives, and other deliverables for use in congressional hearings and media reports.

Project:

Issue One Ethics and Accountability Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Apr 2017 to Apr 2019

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
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