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.
- Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
- $50,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2024
To encourage donors to move critical pro-democracy funding in time for maximum impact, the #HalfMyDAF campaign and the Amalgamated Foundation created a matching democracy pool for election-related DAF gifts made by June.
Project:
#HalfMyDAF Democracy Matching PoolFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Jun 2024 to May 2025Strategy:
Roadmap for American Democracy- American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2024
The ABA Task Force for American Democracy works to safeguard the integrity and non-partisan administration of elections, provide support for election workers and officials, educate Americans on democracy and the rule of law — and their importance to our everyday lives — and suggest ideas to the American people for improving and strengthening our democracy and our elections.
Project:
ABA Task Force on American DemocracyFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Jul 2024 to Jun 2025Strategy:
Resilient Elections- American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2020
Scholars from the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) are conducting a joint project to find solutions to the many continuity of government challenges that our institutions face, some emerging from our current pandemic and others more universal.
Project:
Continuity of Government CommissionFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government, Government/Judicial Selection and Performance, Government/Legislative Branch PerformanceGrant Length:
Nov 2020 to Oct 2022Strategy:
Empowering Congress- American Immigration Council
- $75,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
This grant supports the merger of American Immigration Council and Partnership for a New American Economy into a unified American Immigration Council. By combining their organizations, a far larger portion of the budget can be dedicated to programmatic work serving immigrants.
Project:
AIC Merger SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic IntegrationGrant Length:
Apr 2022 to Jun 2022Strategy:
General- American Journalism Project
- $2,000,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2019
This general operating grant to The American Journalism Project will support the organization’s mission to make transformative investments in Civic News Organizations, building a new public service media that is governed by, sustained by and looks like the public it serves.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2019 to Oct 2021Strategy:
Investigative Journalism- American Journalism Project
- $2,000,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2021
The American Journalism Project makes transformative investments in civic news organizations, building a new public service media that is governed by, sustained by, and looks like the public it serves.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Oct 2021 to Nov 2023Strategy:
General- American Journalism Project
- $200,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2018
To support the American Journalism Project, a fiscally sponsored project of the Institute for Nonprofit News, in their efforts to develop a $50 million fund to accelerate the growth of the nonprofit journalism sector.
Project:
AJP Operating FundsFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Dec 2018 to Nov 2019Strategy:
Investigative Journalism- American Library Association
- $50,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2017
Media Literacy @ Your Library is a one-year adult media literacy program in five public libraries serving diverse communities. With the American Library Association (ALA), they will create online learning sessions, resources, and a workshop to train public librarians on developing programs to teach patrons to be informed media consumers.
Project:
Prototype Fund: Media Literacy at Your LibraryFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Jul 2017 to Jun 2018Strategy:
Press Freedom- American Oversight, Inc.
- $525,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2023
American Oversight is a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog that uses public records requests backed by litigation to fight corruption, drive accountability, and defend democracy. They believe transparency is a critical tool to promote integrity in government and to protect justice, truth, and the rule of law.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Sep 2023 to Aug 2025Strategy:
State and Local Accountability- American Oversight, Inc.
- $450,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2020
American Oversight is building a centralized hub for oversight of the government’s response to the public and economic crisis created by COVID-19. Using information detailed in FOIA requests, news articles, public reports, Inspectors General reports, and congressional investigations, they will support oversight and investigative activities of the watchdog community.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Jul 2020 to Jun 2022Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- American Oversight, Inc.
- $250,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2022
American Oversight is a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog that uses public records requests backed by litigation to fight corruption, drive accountability, and defend democracy. They believe transparency is a critical tool to promote integrity in government and to protect justice, truth, and the rule of law.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Sep 2022 to Aug 2023Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- American Political Science Association
- $145,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2019
The American Political Science Association (APSA) will host a public service fellow from May 1, 2019 – October 31, 2020 to conduct research in service of the U.S. Congress. With this fellowship, APSA enhances public understanding of policymaking and improves the quality of scholarship, teaching and reporting on American national politics.
Project:
APSA Public Service FellowFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch PerformanceGrant Length:
May 2019 to Jan 2023Strategy:
Empowering Congress- American Press Institute
- $50,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2018
To support the costs of a pilot survey to test questions to measure political information efficacy, plan for future data collection, and share the results and framework publicly through publications and presentations as a method of measuring the health of the public square and providing evidence of the effectiveness of funding journalism and media.
Project:
Scoping for Political Information Efficacy measurementFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Nov 2018 to Oct 2019Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- American Press Institute
- $400,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2013
The American Press Institute will improve the practice of fact checking and significantly increase the adoption of fact checking practices through research and the convening of media leaders.
Project:
Research and Education Activities related to Fact Checking PracticesFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Jan 2014 to Dec 2015Strategy:
Previous Strategy- American Press Institute
- $150,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2020
The Trusting News project works with journalists across the country to develop, test, and implement strategies in reporting and publishing that builds trust with audiences.
Project:
Trusting NewsFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Jun 2020 to May 2021Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- American Press Institute
- $600,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2018
The American Press Institute ias a catalyst for meaningful change in journalism using a research-driven approach to fostering more sustainable, audience-centered journalism.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Jun 2018 to May 2021Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- American Press Institute
- $150,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2018
The Trusting News project works with newsrooms to develop, test, and implement new practices and behaviors that make reporting more transparent and trustworthy. The Trusting News project will build a network of transparency coaches and trainers who will dramatically increase the project’s ability to make change across the industry.
Project:
Trusting NewsFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Dec 2018 to May 2020Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- American Press Institute
- $500,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2015
The purpose of this general support grant is to continue to develop the research led innovation approach API has used in its work on fact checking and extend this support for other API projects that help support local media ecosystems.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Dec 2015 to Dec 2017Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- American Society of News Editors Foundation, Inc.
- $300,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2017
The purpose of this grant is to provide support for ASNE to work with Google and a university research team to create a more comprehensive and data driven survey that catalogues the diversity numbers for print and online publications in the United States.
Project:
ASNE Diversity SurveyFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Aug 2017 to Dec 2018Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- American University
- $500,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2017
This grant is to support investigative reporting. It is part of a larger package of grants around investigative journalism that is meant to expand the critical capacity of nonprofit investigative journalism as a robust fourth estate. The grant will empower those newsrooms to pursue rigorous journalism that keeps the government accountable to the American people.