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
  • VotingWorks
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

VotingWorks is developing an open-source tool which will enable election officials to conduct Risk-Limiting Audits (RLAs).

Project:

Risk Limiting Audit Tool Development

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jul 2022

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • VotingWorks
  • $350,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

The Voting Works Risk Limiting Audit (RLA) tool helps election officials calculate the number of ballots needed to conduct an RLA based on the risk limit they have set for a contest. Post-election auditing is one important way that election officials can prove the accuracy of election outcomes and inspire greater public confidence in the voting process.

Project:

Risk Limiting Audit Tool Development

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Dec 2020

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • Washington Center for Technology Policy Inclusion
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2021

The Washington Center for Technology Policy Inclusion (WashingTECH) convenes diverse technology public policy professionals to defend America’s rich diversity with programs that promote an inclusive narrative about technology’s impact on society.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Mar 2023

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Way to Rise
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

The Valiente Fund is a project of Way to Rise, a fiscally sponsored project of Amalgamated Charitable Foundation. The Valiente Fund will reimagine and scale resources to meet the needs of a growing Latino majority.

Project:

Valiente Fund Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Feb 2024

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Way to Rise
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

The Valiente Fund, a project of Way to Rise, is dedicated to unleashing a new generation of change agents forging Latine unity and power within a multi-racial democracy.

Project:

Valiente Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Apr 2024 to Mar 2026

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • Wayne State University
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

The purpose of this grant is to explore how WDET, and in turn other local non-profit media organizations, can integrate revenue driving activities into engaged journalism projects. Our intention is to identify and realize the sustainability of “engagement” as a practice, and share our learnings for the wider industry to review.

Project:

WDET Engagement & Contribution Pipeline

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to May 2019

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Wayne State University
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2017

This project grant will provide support for the Levin Center at Wayne Law to continue its efforts to strengthen congressional oversight. This work will include academic research and collaboration on congressional oversight issues. By facilitating the development of an academic field focused on oversight and research into effective oversight methods, the Levin Center’s work is part of a longer term strategy to rebuild civil society’s work on oversight and accountability issues.

Project:

Levin Center at Wayne Law

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency, Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • Wayne State University
  • $337,500.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2019

To support the activities of the Levin Center at Wayne Law to promote bipartisan, fact-based oversight. The Levin Center will conduct oversight trainings for congressional staff, promote scholarly research on oversight, host conferences and symposia on oversight topics, and strengthen the public narrative around the importance of meaningful oversight. 

Project:

Levin Center at Wayne Law

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • Wayne State University
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2023

The Levin Center at Wayne State University works to build capacity in legislative bodies at all levels — federal, state, and abroad — to expose public and private sector abuses, ensure effective governance, and bring critical facts to light for the benefit of all.

Project:

Levin Center at Wayne Law

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

State and Local Accountability
  • We the Veterans Foundation
  • $350,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

We the Veterans Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization created by veterans and military family members. They empower the veteran and military family community to strengthen American democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

General
  • We the Veterans Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

We the Veterans Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization created by veterans and military family members. They empower the veteran and military family community to strengthen American democracy.

Project:

We The Veterans

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

General
  • We the Veterans Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

We the Veterans Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization created by veterans and military family members. They empower the veteran and military family community to strengthen American democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Welcoming America Inc.
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Welcoming America is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that leads a movement of inclusive communities becoming more prosperous by ensuring everyone belongs. Through the Welcoming Network, they help communities develop the roadmap they need to create welcoming policies and share new approaches to creating an environment where everyone can truly thrive.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Welcoming America Inc.
  • $1,000,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2019

 Democracy Fund  will provide general operating support to Welcoming America to support their work to promote more welcoming communities in the United States. 

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Aug 2019 to May 2023

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Welcoming America Inc.
  • $450,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

Welcoming America is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that leads a movement of inclusive communities becoming more prosperous by ensuring everyone belongs. Through the Welcoming Network, they help communities develop the roadmap they need to create welcoming policies and share new approaches to creating an environment where everyone can truly thrive.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Oct 2027

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Wesleyan University
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

To support the Wesleyan Media Project, a project of Wesleyan University, in their work to organize data to hold platforms accountable to the American public and advance America’s democratic promise. This grant will fund research and scholarship into how best to collect and publish data regarding political advertising on platforms, with particular interest on ads that involve race and gender.

Project:

Platforms & Political Ads

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Apr 2020 to Mar 2021

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Wesleyan University
  • $25,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To support the Wesleyan Media Project in their work to organize data to hold platforms accountable to the American public and to advance America’s democratic promise. This grant will fund research and scholarship into how best to collect and publish data regarding political advertising on platforms, with a focus on ads that involve race and gender.

Project:

Platforms & Political Ads

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Aug 2019 to Feb 2020

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • West Virginia University Foundation, Inc.
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

This grant supports work to demonstrate how universities can lead collaborative reporting projects that challenge local newsrooms to shift their practices to better create journalism that is meaningful to communities and responsive to their needs through a focus on reporting from a rural Appalachian perspective.

Project:

WVU Media Innovation

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Aug 2017 to Jun 2019

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • West Virginia University Foundation, Inc.
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To support critical data collection and analysis by West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media to document and analyze the networks and strategies being used to expose, recruit, and radicalize white youth in the Appalachian region in order to determine opportunities for intervention.

Project:

Researching Radicalization of White Youth in Appalachia

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Aug 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Western States Center Inc.
  • $600,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

Western States Center works to build a future where all people can live, love, worship, and work free from bigotry and fear. They foster leaders, organizations, collaborations, and initiatives that reduce disparities and advance equity; lift up the leaders of marginalized communities; and deliver accessible tools for community organizing and civic engagement.

Project:

Western States Center

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Other, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2027

Strategy:

General
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