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
  • POLITICO, LLC
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2016

Politico is co-sponsoring an event on the future of American democracy and the political parties. While examining these structures through the context of the 2016 election, two panels will focus on the forces and factors that created our current election and how they will influence the future.

Project:

Public education event on future of democracy

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2016 to Feb 2017

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • The Lugar Center
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2018

General Operating Support

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to Nov 2019

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2018

To support Chicago Lawyers’ Committee’s work on the evaluation of the Automatic Voter Registration implementation process in Illinois and allow the Lawyers’ Committee to expand state and local stakeholder awareness of the best practices and challenges associated with the implementation.

Project:

Illinois AVR Implementation Evaluation

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to May 2020

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • 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 II

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance

Grant Length:

Sep 2016 to Aug 2017

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2017

This grant will support a sustained education and engagement effort to reinforce the critical role of the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) in today’s policy-making environment. The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) will convene the nation’s top budget experts – many of whom have served in CBO leadership – to elevate a timely discussion about the need for the impartial, nonpartisan budget scorekeeping and analysis that CBO provides.

Project:

Elevating the Role of the Congressional Budget Office

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Nov 2018

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • One Voice Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2018

To support One Voice’s efforts to build relationships with election clerks, conduct research on potential cost savings associated with online voter registration, and build capacity among the coalition of organizations in Mississippi working on elections issues.

Project:

Mississippi Registration Modernization and Capacity-Building

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to Nov 2019

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • National Affairs, Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

This project grant to the online and quarterly publication National Affairs will support its work to develop voices who can stand up for democratic norms and the rule of law. The grant will allow National Affairs to host a series of public and private events that highlight the work of journalists, academics and writers and connect them with like-minded thinkers and the conservative public. 

Project:

Conservative Voices for the Rule of Law

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Sep 2018 to Dec 2019

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2018

This grant will support the Senior Practice Fellow in American Democracy at the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Harvard Kennedy School.

Project:

Senior Practice Fellowship in American Democracy

Foundation Center Topic:

Other, Government

Grant Length:

Nov 2018 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

General
  • 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 trainings

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

May 2020 to Apr 2021

Strategy:

General
  • Wayne State University
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

The purpose of this grant is to explore how WDET, and in turn other local non-profit media organizations, can integrate revenue driving activities into engaged journalism projects. Our intention is to identify and realize the sustainability of “engagement” as a practice, and share our learnings for the wider industry to review.

Project:

WDET Engagement & Contribution Pipeline

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to May 2019

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Library of Congress
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2015

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) is an agency within the Library of Congress that works exclusively for the United States Congress, providing policy and legal analysis to committees and members of both the House and Senate.

Project:

115th Congress Freshmen Member Seminars & Briefings

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Government

Grant Length:

Dec 2015 to Oct 2017

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2016

This is a renewal grant to CJR’s United States Project to support experimentation in building local journalism capacity in the areas of collaboration, innovation, impact, and funding in target states.

Project:

CJR's United States Project - Renewal

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Feb 2016 to Aug 2016

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

This Grant will provide support for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission’s MLK 50 Conference and the production of materials for continued engagement to attendees and the membership of the ERLC. 

Project:

Support for the MLK50 Conference and Follow-up with Membership

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Apr 2018 to Oct 2020

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Civic Hall Labs, Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2015

The purpose of this grant is to help fund a Civic Hall Imagination Fellow at Civic Hall Labs.

Project:

Civic Hall Imagination Fellow

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Dec 2015 to Dec 2016

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Rockefeller Family Fund Inc
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

The Democracy & Power Innovation Fund at the Rockefeller Family Fund creates research and learning partnerships with funders, researchers, and organizing groups to improve practices in the field.

Project:

Democracy & Power Innovation Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Dec 2022

Strategy:

General
  • The Campaign Legal Center, Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2014

To provide the Campaign Legal Center with a restricted grant for the purpose of organizational and programmatic strategic planning.For more on CLC’s history and current program areas, please refer to R-201407-01230.

Project:

Strategic Planning Grant

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance

Grant Length:

Nov 2014 to Oct 2015

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2014

The Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget (CRFB) is using this planning grant for a new initiative: “Fix the System.” CRFB is a trusted convener in the area of budget reform–they bring together important political forces to build coalitions and support for reasonable ways to encourage a functioning government system.

Project:

Fix the System

Foundation Center Topic:

Government

Grant Length:

Dec 2014 to Dec 2015

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • FairVote
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2017

This grant will support the general operations of FairVote – an organization working to generate more effective governance through voting reforms.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Nov 2018

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Curators of the University of Missouri
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

The purpose of this grant is to support training and research on how newsrooms can build trust with their communities through social media, in person engagement and via their web sites and news products. 

Project:

Trusting News Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to Sep 2019

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • CoastAlaska, Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2017

To support collaboration and fundraising services at Coast Alaska which helps build the Alaska media ecosystem. The shared services support will include a matching campaign for noncommercial public broadcasting stations inspired by NewsMatch, and the expansion of technological services to support small noncommercial stations in Alaska.

Project:

Coast Alaska Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
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