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.
- 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 SOSFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Dec 2025Strategy:
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 SOSFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
May 2022 to Nov 2022Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic IntegrationGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2025Strategy:
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 ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Sep 2024Strategy:
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 islamophobiaFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Dec 2018 to Nov 2019Strategy:
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 islamophobiaFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2017 to Oct 2018Strategy:
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, OtherGrant Length:
Oct 2022 to Sep 2023Strategy:
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 IdealsFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, OtherGrant Length:
Jul 2020 to Jun 2022Strategy:
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 NetworkFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Oct 2018 to Mar 2019Strategy:
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 GrantFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Oct 2018 to Mar 2019Strategy:
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 CongressFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Oct 2018 to Mar 2019Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Dec 2016 to Dec 2017Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, OtherGrant Length:
Aug 2024 to Jul 2025Strategy:
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 IIFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic IntegrationGrant Length:
Dec 2018 to Nov 2019Strategy:
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 ServicesFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Dec 2017 to Nov 2018Strategy:
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-MeterFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Jul 2017 to Jun 2018Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Apr 2025Strategy:
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 HubFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2024Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Other, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2026Strategy:
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.