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
  • 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 Hub

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Aug 2024 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Faith Matters Network Collaborative
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Faith Matters Network catalyzes personal and social change by equipping community organizers, faith leaders, and activists with resources for connection, spiritual sustainability, and accompaniment.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Faith In/And Democracy (FIAD) is a funding and learning initiative that explores the ways faith and faith communities support democracy and civic life. Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) leads and administers this initiative because they believe faith can ease divisions that plague our political processes and social fabric.

Project:

Support for Faith In/And Democracy Pooled Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • 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
  • Public Narrative
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

Public Narrative works to strengthen community-driven journalism in Chicago. In 2024 Public Narrative assumed stewardship of the Chicago Independent Media Alliance (CIMA). Their work to integrate CIMA into Public Narrative closes the feedback loop among stakeholders and collaborators like CIMA administrators, members, audiences and supporters/philanthropy.

Project:

Chicago Independent Media Alliance

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Aug 2024 to Jan 2025

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • The Horizons Project
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Horizons Project, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, advances research on weakening and dismantling authoritarianism in the United States.

Project:

Anti-Authoritarian Strategery

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2023 to Jun 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Georgetown University
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life supports the efforts of U.S. Catholic leadership to advance the common good in our multiracial, pluralist democracy. The Initiative also strengthens the U.S. Catholic community’s resistance to the misuse and distortion of Catholic principles for anti-democratic ideological ideas and goals.

Project:

The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

General
  • The Chicago Community Trust
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Press Forward Chicago, a funder collaborative housed at The Chicago Community Trust, helps to right-size independent, community news outlets and set them up for long-term sustainability. This initiative infuses the Chicago journalism ecosystem with renewed financial vitality, fortifying the multitude of independent outlets serving the diverse local communities.

Project:

Press Forward Chicago

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Dec 2025

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Foundation for City College
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice is a leadership development initiative housed within the City University of New York to harness the potential of leaders of color working in the democracy reform and social justice sectors.

Project:

Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Native American Journalists Association
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Native American Journalists Association facilitates collaboration, professional development and joint training for current and future leaders of journalism affinity groups serving underrepresented communities.

Project:

Affinity Groups Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

May 2023 to Apr 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Chicago Independent Media Alliance project at the Reader Institute for Community Journalism works to create a self-sustaining media ecosystem in Chicago. The Chicago Independent Media Alliance project is a partnership of independent and local media entities collaborating on editorial and revenue-generating models.

Project:

Chicago Independent Media Alliance

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Aug 2023 to Feb 2024

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Media Democracy Fund
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Unicorn Fund at Media Democracy Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, is an award program that supports under-resourced grassroots leaders, including independent journalists, who face attacks for expressing their ideas, telling the truth, and taking a stand on the front lines of narrative change.

Project:

Unicorn Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Mississippi Votes
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

Mississippi Votes works to increase voter registration and turnout (specifically within 18-35 voting bloc) through innovative and high-tech engagement programming and outreach strategies. They also engage traditional organizing techniques to cater to the needs of today’s voters.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Convergence Center for Policy Resolution
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

Convergence Center for Policy Resolution will create and convene a Roundtable on transforming the civil service to meet the needs of the 21st century. The Roundtable will be an incubator for different groups and stakeholders to share ideas about how to transform the system and attract, retain, and develop talented and diverse career public servants.

Project:

Roundtable on Modernizing the Civil Service

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Executive Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Jun 2022 to May 2023

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • We the Veterans Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

We the Veterans Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization created by veterans and military family members. They empower the veteran and military family community to strengthen American democracy.

Project:

We The Veterans

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

General
  • We the Veterans Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

We the Veterans Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization created by veterans and military family members. They empower the veteran and military family community to strengthen American democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • 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
  • Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

Rural Digital Youth Resiliency conducts data collection and analysis to document and analyze the networks and strategies used to expose, recruit, and radicalize white youth in the Appalachian region in order to determine opportunities for intervention.

Project:

Researching Radicalization of White Youth in Appalachia

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2021 to Oct 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Shoulder to Shoulder
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

Shoulder to Shoulder, a fiscally sponsored project of The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, trains faith and community leaders to address Islamophobia in their communities.

Project:

Support for Shoulder to Shoulder

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jul 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc. dba The Vance Center
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Lawyers for Reporters, a project of the Vance Center, and in partnership with the Press Freedom Defense Fund, provides pro bono legal services to local and social mission-driven organizations in the United States.

Project:

Lawyers for Reporters

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
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