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.
- 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 IRAPFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2026Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Aug 2023 to Jul 2025Strategy:
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 FundFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Jul 2022 to Jun 2023Strategy:
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 FundFoundation Center Topic:
MediaGrant Length:
Oct 2020 to Jan 2022Strategy:
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 2016Foundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Dec 2015 to Dec 2016Strategy:
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 IIFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign FinanceGrant Length:
Sep 2016 to Aug 2017Strategy:
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 ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Open Government and Transparency, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign FinanceGrant Length:
Oct 2014 to Sep 2015Strategy:
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 CollectiveFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and Policy, Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2018 to Nov 2020Strategy:
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 CollectiveFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Dec 2020 to Jun 2022Strategy:
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 CollectiveFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Oct 2022 to Sep 2024Strategy:
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 CollectiveFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Apr 2024 to Dec 2025Strategy:
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 trainingsFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
May 2020 to Apr 2021Strategy:
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 TrainingsFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Oct 2018 to Jan 2020Strategy:
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 FundFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, OtherGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Jan 2026Strategy:
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 ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and VotingGrant Length:
Nov 2021 to Dec 2023Strategy:
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 HubFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Aug 2024 to Jul 2025Strategy:
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 ResearchFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign FinanceGrant Length:
Jul 2013 to Jul 2014Strategy:
Previous Strategy- Issue One
- $1,480,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2019
General operating support to Issue One.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance, Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Jun 2019 to Dec 2023Strategy:
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 InitiativeFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch PerformanceGrant Length:
Jul 2020 to Jul 2023Strategy:
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.