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
  • 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
  • Undivided, Inc
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

UNDIVIDED Inc. provides six-week LivingUNDIVIDED cohort experiences, where they invite participants to reckon with history, build solidarity across race and ethnicity, and commit to action to advance racial healing and justice in their communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Movement Law Lab
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Movement Law Lab, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, helps develop a legal arm for social movements through deep consultation with organizers and grassroots groups to understand legal vulnerabilities and needs. They recruit and vet lawyers to provide advice and strategy, and conduct outreach, training, and planning sessions for large groups of lawyers.

Project:

Movement Law Lab

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Morgan State University Foundation Incorporated
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Center for Urban Journalism at Morgan State University trains new cadres of black journalists through fellowships, runs Social Justice Reporting Collaboratives between students at Morgan State and other journalism institutions, and produces research on the needs of black communities residing in news deserts or facing otherwise biased or insufficient news.

Project:

Center for Urban Journalism

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • 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 Hub

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Native American Journalists Association
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Native American Journalists Association supports their members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while holding the media accountable in their portrayals of Native American and Indigenous communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Center for Secure and Modern Elections
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The Institute for Responsive Government at the Center for Secure and Modern Elections, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, is a public policy hub of policy experts, fellows, and advisory board members to drive research, policy recommendations, press engagement, and more.

Project:

Institute for Responsive Government

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Democratizing Philanthropy Project
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

The #PowerProgress campaign is a unique collaboration between philanthropy, nonprofits, and the Democratizing Philanthropy Project that is part program, part capacity building, and part public awareness. The campaign will support dozens of historically excluded frontline organizations working in their communities on critical issues.

Project:

Support for #PowerProgress

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Democracy 2076
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2023

Democracy 2076, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc., is convening organizers, state legislators, those running campaigns to amend the US Constitution, and legal scholars to envision what a Constitution for 2076 needs to include to ensure an effective, responsive, and representative democracy.

Project:

Democracy 2076

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

General
  • The Aspen Institute Inc
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2017

This grant will support the Aspen Institute’s Socrates Program American Values Series. These events will seek to promote American democratic values and civil discourse and understanding among the American people. These events will build off the successful Socrates learning model from the Aspen Institute. 

Project:

Socrates Program - American Values Seminar

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Nov 2018

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • The Andrew Goodman Foundation Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2017

Grantor will provide support for the Student Ambassador’s Program of the Andrew Goodman Foundation. This program engages student leaders in the electoral process and educates college students on the important issues facing our democracy. 

Project:

Support Vote Everywhere Student Ambassador Program

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Nov 2018

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Arizona State University Foundation for a New American University
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

This grant supports the establishment of the News Literacy Lab at Arizona State University. The project’s focus is on developing newsrooms as leaders in news literacy through education, research, and engagement. 

Project:

Co/Lab News Literacy Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to May 2019

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • 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:

Sep 2017 to Aug 2018

Strategy:

General
  • Voice of San Diego
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2017

This is a general operating grant to support Voice of San Diego’s work providing critical local reporting to the citizens of their region. 

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to Oct 2018

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Free Press
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To support Free Press in their work to create a new deal for the digital age with a focus on racial and gender equity. This grant will advance the work of Change the Terms, a coalition co-founded and co-led by Free Press, in organizing stakeholders from civil society, government, and technology to hold platforms accountable through a public-facing campaign aimed at pressuring companies to make changes on a range of issues, including content moderation and advertising policies.  

Project:

Change the Terms

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Jul 2019 to Jun 2020

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • University of Oregon Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2016

The purpose of this grant is to support the University of Oregon School of Journalism’s Agora Journalism Center to create workshops to strengthen the community of practice of Engaged Journalism. This grant builds on Knight’s larger grant that supports building a web-tool, with our emphasis on creating robust connections within the field.

Project:

Building out the Community of Practice

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2016 to Apr 2018

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Georgetown University
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2017

The purpose of this grant is to support the “Constructive Voices for the Common Good” dialogue series – promoting bipartisanship and civility in public life – hosted by the Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life (“the Initiative”) based at Georgetown University. The Initiative will lead one major event in Washington, D.C. and multiple smaller events focused on Latino leaders and young professionals during the grant period.

Project:

Constructive Voices for the Common Good Dialogue Series

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Sep 2017 to Dec 2018

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
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