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Grants Database

Democracy Fund champions the leaders and organizations who defend democracy and challenge it to be more open and just. We are proud to have supported more than 200 organizations doing this work.

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  • 22nd Century Initiative
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

22nd Century Initiative, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center, facilitates widespread opposition to authoritarian movements and ideas, and resources organizations and networks to build an enduring, reparative, people-powered democracy.  

Project:

22nd Century Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

November 2023 to October 2024

Strategy:

Weaken Authoritarian Factions
  • 22nd Century Initiative
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

22nd Century Initiative, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center, facilitates widespread opposition to authoritarian movements and ideas, and resources organizations and networks to build an enduring, reparative, people-powered democracy.  

Project:

22nd Century Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

November 2022 to October 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • ACCESS
  • $350,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC), an institution of ACCESS, builds the capacity of Arab American community organizations. NNAAC’s capacity building program will help its member organizations though trainings, technical assistance, workshops, convenings, and peer-to-peer learnings.  

Project:

National Network for Arab American Communities

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Media, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Other, Government/Budgeting, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

November 2023 to October 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • ACCESS
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The National Network for Arab American Communities, an institution of ACCESS, builds the capacity of Arab American community organizations. NNAAC’s capacity building program helps its member organizations through trainings, technical assistance, workshops, convenings, and peer-to-peer learnings.  

Project:

National Network for Arab American Communities

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:

November 2022 to October 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice is an immigrant women-of-color-led grassroots organization based in Woodside, New York. Founded in 2005, they are the country’s only worker and social justice center dedicated to serving and mobilizing the Nepali-speaking community — an underserved, under-resourced, and undercounted community.  

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Other

Grant Length:

November 2021 to April 2023

Strategy:

General
  • 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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

April 2022 to June 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Arab American Institute Foundation
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2020

The Arab American Institute Foundation was created to encourage Arab American participation in civic life, by ensuring that Arab Americans have the tools and data necessary to empower their communities through organization.  

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

September 2020 to August 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2017

To support direct litigation, legal services work, and to develop multi-lingual know-your-rights materials that can be delivered in MASA community centers.  

Project:

Litigation, Legal Services, and Know Your Rights

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

October 2017 to September 2018

Strategy:

General
  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2018

To support direct litigation and legal services work, and to strengthen and expand multilingual know your rights materials that can be delivered to MASA and immigrant communities.  

Project:

Litigation, legal services, and know your rights

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

November 2018 to October 2019

Strategy:

General
  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
  • $1,220,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2019

To support direct litigation and legal services work, and to strengthen and expand multilingual know your rights materials that can be delivered to MASA and immigrant communities through Asian Law Caucus’s National Security & Civil Rights work.  

Project:

Litigation, Legal Services, and Know Your Rights

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

November 2019 to October 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus was founded in 1972 as the nation’s first legal and civil rights organization serving low-income, immigrant, and underserved Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. They provide legal services, community empowerment, and policy advocacy to fight for immigrant justice, economic security, and a stronger democracy.  

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

December 2023 to November 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) believes that asylum seekers can make great change by standing together. They provide their membership of asylum seekers with legal and community support.  

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

November 2022 to October 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc
  • $375,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) believes that asylum seekers can make great change by standing together. They provide their membership of asylum seekers with legal and community support.  

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

November 2023 to October 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Ayni Institute Inc
  • $800,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Ayni Institute is a movement training center run, led, and rooted in the immigrant experience, community organizing, and indigenous wisdom that seeks to build the necessary capacity to win social change. They support social movements, leaders, and institutions in increasing their strategic and organizational capacity.  

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

December 2023 to November 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Business Forward Foundation
  • $550,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2019

To support Business Forward Foundation’s (BFF) work in organizing business leaders and train them speak out on the importance and business benefits of diversity and inclusiveness.  

Project:

Business Leaders for Vulnerable Communities

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Media/Media Access and Policy, Media, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

December 2019 to November 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Business Forward Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2017

To organize business leaders and earned media, in specific areas, to educate the public and policymakers about the importance of respecting and protecting vulnerable communities.  

Project:

Business Leaders for Vulnerable Communities

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

September 2017 to August 2018

Strategy:

General
  • Business Forward Foundation
  • $170,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2018

The purpose of this grant is to support Business Forward Foundation’s project to 1) organize business leaders and train them speak out on the business benefits of diversity and inclusiveness, 2) to strengthen an ad campaign to support the organizing work, and 3) to develop a storefront sign campaign around diversity, inclusion and empathy. A portion of this grant […]

Project:

Business Leaders for Vulnerable Communities

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

December 2018 to November 2019

Strategy:

General
  • Business Forward Foundation
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Business Forward Foundation is a research and educational organization that takes a business-minded look at policy issues affecting America’s economic competitiveness. Through white papers, issue briefs, conference calls, and other events, they educate policy makers and the public about climate change, immigration reform, infrastructure investment, and other critical issues.  

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

December 2022 to November 2024

Strategy:

Weaken Authoritarian Factions
  • California State University Northridge Foundation
  • $114,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2018

The purpose of this grant is to create capacity at CSUN for them to begin exploring partnership with other centers across the country focused on supporting ethnic media throughout the country.  

Project:

Center for Community and Ethnic Media

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

September 2018 to August 2020

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2020

This grant supports research development through the Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. The Senior Fellow and expert in the program will produce a research paper on transitional justice lessons from abroad for advancing racial reconciliation in the United States.  

Project:

Support for Transitional Justice Research

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

December 2020 to October 2021

Strategy:

General
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