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
  • Native American Rights Fund, Inc.
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

The Native American Rights Fund (NARF) is a part of the Native American Voting Rights Coalition, which fosters partnerships with tribal governments across the country to tackle systemic challenges to voter participation for tribal communities. 

Project:

Voter Registration Basics in Indian Country: Addresses, POBs, & GIS

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Jul 2024

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Neighborly Faith Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Neighborly Faith (NF) brings pluralism education to Evangelical college students with little first-hand experience with it, limited appreciation for it, and who other organizations cannot reach. Nearly all Evangelical faith leaders (lay and professional) attend Evangelical colleges at some point in their lives. Very few of these colleges talk about pluralism. NF is changing this.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Neighborly Faith Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Neighborly Faith (NF) brings pluralism education to Evangelical college students with little first-hand experience with it, limited appreciation for it, and who other organizations cannot reach. Nearly all Evangelical faith leaders (lay and professional) attend Evangelical colleges at some point in their lives. Very few of these colleges talk about pluralism. NF is changing this.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

General
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc.
  • $1,430,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To support NEO Philanthropy’s State Infrastructure Fund (SIF) project in its work to protect and advance the voting rights of historically underrepresented communities through a coordinated proactive and responsive approach. SIF’s grantmaking and convening power strengthens coordination within the voting rights movement, in particular between grassroots mobilization and litigation.

Project:

State Infrastructure Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Oct 2019 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2024

Rapid Assistance Safety Initiative (RASI) is a rapid response grantmaking and technical security project that supports social justice organizations’ increasing physical safety and security needs.

Project:

RASI Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Dec 2025

Strategy:

General
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

Black Migrant Power Fund, a community-led fund housed at Neo Philanthropy Inc.’s Four Freedoms Fund, supports Black-led, grassroots organizations addressing the urgent needs of Black migrant communities and building power with and for Black migrants in the US.

Project:

Black Migrant Power Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2027

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc.
  • $375,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Black Migrant Power Fund, a community-led fund housed at Neo Philanthropy Inc.’s Four Freedoms Fund, supports Black-led, grassroots organizations addressing the urgent needs of Black migrant communities and building power with and for Black migrants in the US.

Project:

Black Migrant Power Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc.
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The State Infrastructure Fund (SIF), a collaborative fund of NEO Philanthropy, works to protect and advance the voting rights of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) and other historically underrepresented communities.

Project:

State Infrastructure Fund Voting Rights Collaborative

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • New America Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

The New Models of Policy Change project, in the Political Reform Program, at New America Foundation supports work on community resilience against right wing extremism and growing political violence.

Project:

Political Reform Program on Resilience and Political Violence

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Jun 2021 to May 2022

Strategy:

General
  • New America Foundation
  • $215,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

To support Ranking Digital Rights, a project of New America Foundation, in their effort to categorize, catalog, and assess the human rights impact of the practices of social media giants in the United States through the Ranking Digital Rights Corporate Accountability Index. 

Project:

Ranking Digital Rights: Platforms & Civil Rights

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Apr 2020 to Jun 2023

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • New America Foundation
  • $375,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Launched in 2014, New America’s Political Reform program seeks to develop new strategies and innovations to repair the dysfunction of government, restore civic trust, and realize the potential of American democracy.

Project:

Political Reform Project Renewal 2022

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Executive Branch Performance, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

General
  • New America Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

This grant will support a fellowship within the TechCongress program. Fellows are experienced professionals with deep technological knowledge and experience who agree to work for a congressional office (typically a committee) to provide support to congressional staff on complex policy matters. The knowledge they share with lawmakers and staff strengthen the ability of Congress to generate informed public policy on a variety of technology-related issues currently facing the nation. 

Project:

TechCongress

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

May 2018 to Apr 2019

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • New America Foundation
  • $75,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2016

The Political Reform program of New America develops new strategies and innovations to repair the dysfunction of government, restore trust, and rebuild the promise of American democracy.

Project:

Participatory Budgeting Solutions and Political Reform

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Executive Branch Performance, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Nov 2016 to Oct 2017

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • New America Foundation
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2018

This grant will support the work of New America’s Political Reform Project, which seeks to revitalize American democratic practice by introducing new ideas and new perspectives to the public debate, putting reform ideas to the test, and bringing together activists, academics, and political practitioners to test and refine promising concepts.

Project:

Support for the Political Reform Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Government

Grant Length:

Nov 2018 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

General
  • New America Foundation
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2020

To support the Political Reform Program, through the New Models of Policy Change project, at New America Foundation to strengthen work on resilience to political violence. 

Project:

Political Reform Program on resilience and political violence

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Mar 2020 to Feb 2021

Strategy:

General
  • New America Foundation
  • $120,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The New Models of Policy Change project, housed in the Political Reform Program at New America Foundation, works on resilience against right wing extremism and growing political violence.

Project:

New Models of Policy Change

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

General
  • New America Foundation
  • $450,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2019

To support the work of New America’s Political Reform Program, which seeks to revitalize American democratic practice by introducing new ideas and new perspectives to the public debate, putting reform ideas to the test, and bringing together activists, academics, and political practitioners to test and refine promising concepts.

Project:

Political Reform Program

Foundation Center Topic:

Government

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to May 2022

Strategy:

General
  • New America Foundation
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet by creating global standards and incentives for companies to respect and protect users’ rights.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • New America Foundation
  • $388,367.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2012

The New America Foundation will work with scholars to conduct a series of lab and field experiments related to the effectiveness of fact checking and innovative uses of media to inform and engage the public.

Project:

Fact checking lab and research experiements

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Jun 2012 to Sep 2013

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • New America Foundation
  • $700,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2019

To support TechCongress, a project of New America Foundation, in placing an additional mid-career fellow with deep technological knowledge in a congressional office to support and strengthen the ability of lawmakers and staff to generate informed public policy on a variety of technology-related issues currently facing the nation.

Project:

TechCongress

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

May 2019 to Apr 2022

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
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