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
  • Common Cause Education Fund
  • $525,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

Common Cause Education Fund strives to uphold the core values of American democracy by working to create open, honest, and accountable government that serves the public interest; promote equal rights, opportunity, and representation for all; and empower all people to make their voices heard in the political process.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Mar 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • Common Cause Education Fund
  • $1,375,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

Common Cause Education Fund (CCEF) is a national organization supporting civic reform in the U.S., working for improvements in both election administration and campaign finance. They are a key player in shaping conversations around voting. Leveraging their state offices and national membership, they continue to build local coalitions around many reforms to strengthen our democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Redistricting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Jul 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Common Cause Education Fund
  • $925,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2017

Common Cause Education Fund (CCEF) is a national organization supporting civic reform in the U.S., working for improvements in both election administration and campaign finance. At the national level, they are a key player in shaping conversations around voting. Leverage their 35 state offices and national membership, they continue to build local coalitions around many of the reforms that the Democracy Fund believes can strengthen our democracy. 

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Redistricting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Nov 2019

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Common Cause Education Fund
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2014

Common Cause Education Fund is one of the major institutions supporting democratic reform in the United States. They work in election administration and campaign finance, with strong state chapters that emphasize building local, bipartisan coalitions for reform.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2014 to Sep 2015

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Common Cause Education Fund
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2019

To be able to review, process and legally share with other partners the volume of documents connected to Thomas Hofeller, now in the possession of Common Cause Education Fund.

Project:

Redestricting | Document Review

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Redistricting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Nov 2020

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona connects donors to the causes they care about, serving as a vital link between philanthropy and the community’s needs. They are working to provide ongoing community leadership and recurring philanthropic support to the organizations helping to rebuild trusted, local news and information in their community.

Project:

Local Journalism Initiative of Southern Arizona

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Community Foundation of New Jersey
  • $1,300,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

The purpose of this grant is to support New Jersey’s local news information ecosystem. The grant will create a fund at the Community Foundation of New Jersey to support organizations that are working to build a networked, state-wide, place-based, news ecosystem that is audience-centered, trusted, collaborative and resilient.

Project:

New Jersey News Ecosystem

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Community Foundation of New Jersey
  • $215,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

The New Jersey Local News Lab Fund is a collaborative fund that supports people and organizations building a more connected, collaborative, and sustainable local news and information ecosystem in New Jersey.

Project:

New Jersey Local News Lab Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2020 to Mar 2023

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Community Foundation of New Jersey
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To support the NJ Local News Lab Fund, which is investing in people and organizations working to make New Jersey’s news ecosystem more connected, collaborative, and sustainable. 

Project:

Local News Lab Fund Renewal

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2020

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Conecta Arizona
  • $450,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Conecta Arizona (CA) started as an experiment to respond to misinformation about Covid with accurate and timely information in Spanish. Using the community-based approach they developed over the past three years, they are expanding their focus to include more deeply reported stories.

Project:

Conecta Arizona

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Congressional Management Foundation
  • $25,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2020

This grant supports the Congressional Management Foundation’s ongoing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion efforts as an organization in 2020.

Project:

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government, Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2020 to Dec 2020

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Congressional Management Foundation
  • $400,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2015

This general operating grant is aimed at helping boost the efforts of the Congressional Management Foundation’s efforts to help Congressional offices manage resources as effectively as possible. More specifically, this grant aims to boost several key functions within CMF including a program that would look at developing guiding principles that would establish best practices for use of technology in Congressional offices and a program that focuses on training Freshman Member offices.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Jul 2015 to Jun 2017

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Congressional Management Foundation
  • $49,900.00
  • Network Grant
  • Governance
  • 2015

The purpose of this grant is to create a coalition of experts from inside and outside of Congress to creative a constructive, cohesive vision for a Resilient Democracy.

Project:

Resilient Democracy Coalition-Building

Foundation Center Topic:

Government, Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Dec 2015 to Dec 2016

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Congressional Management Foundation
  • $500,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2017

General Operating Support

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Congressional Management Foundation
  • $950,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2019

General Operating Support

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Jan 2024

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Congressional Progressive Caucus Center
  • $435,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2020

The Congressional Progressive Caucus Center’s Legislative Reform Program conducts research on major democracy reform issues, and educates advocates, policymakers, and the public about opportunities to increase congressional capacity.

Project:

Legislative Reform Program

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Oct 2020 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Congressional Sports for Charity
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

This grant will support Congressional Sports for Charity, organizer of the annual Congressional Baseball Game. The Congressional Baseball Game, first held in 1909, is an annual bipartisan event in which Members of the United States Congress face off in a friendly baseball game. Congressional Sports for Charity uses proceeds from the game to support charities across the Washington, DC area.

Project:

Congressional Baseball Game Sponsorship

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Jun 2018 to Nov 2018

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Constitutional Accountability Center
  • $400,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2023

Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC) is a think tank, law firm, and action center dedicated to fulfilling the progressive promise of the Constitution’s text and history. They work in the courts, government, and with legal scholars to preserve the rights of all in America and to protect the judiciary from politics.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Constitutional Accountability Center
  • $175,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC) is a think tank, law firm, and action center dedicated to fulfilling the progressive promise of the Constitution’s text and history. They work in the courts, through government, and with legal scholars to preserve the rights and freedoms of all in America and to protect the judiciary from politics and special interests.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Constitutional Accountability Center
  • $475,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2019

To support the Constitutional Accountability Center’s work to research the tools Congress can use to enforce its oversight requests, enhance capacity to provide legal analysis at the request of Hill offices, support litigation, and shape a media narrative on the importance of Congress serving as a coequal branch. 

Project:

Congressional Oversight

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Jul 2019 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
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