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
  • Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Dignity.US seeks to address the crisis of hate-fueled violence in America. Dignity.US is a citizens’ initiative to address the crisis of hate-fueled violence in America, led by a bipartisan collaborative of former Domestic Policy Council chairs from the Obama, Bush, and Trump Administrations.

Project:

Dignity.US

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Media Democracy Fund
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2020 to May 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2020

Scholars from the Bipartisan Policy Center (BPC) and American Enterprise Institute (AEI) are conducting a joint project to find solutions to the many continuity of government challenges that our institutions face, some emerging from our current pandemic and others more universal.

Project:

Continuity of Government Commission

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government, Government/Judicial Selection and Performance, Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2020 to Oct 2022

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Center for Constitutional Rights Inc
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Center for Constitutional Rights stands with social justice movements and communities under threat—fusing litigation, advocacy, and narrative shifting to dismantle systems of oppression regardless of the risk. They use creative and aggressive legal strategies against the most virulent forms of oppression to push the law to meet the demands of justice.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Demand Progress Education Fund
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Demand Progress Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. They work to protect an internet that affords the public the ability to communicate freely online, without unjust interference from corporations or governments.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government, Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to May 2024

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • POPVOX Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

POPVOX Foundation works to inform and empower people and make government work better for everyone. This includes reimagining the concept of “civic infrastructure,” and providing new ways for government to share information and engage the public, with an emphasis on diverse participation and rebuilding public trust.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Public Participation, Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

May 2022 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Grassroots Asians Rising
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Grassroots Asians Rising, a fiscally sponsored project of Chinese Progressive Association, is a national network of grassroots organizations rooted in working-class Asian communities. Their members support communities that live in the most precarious margins of power: refugees, low-wage workers, youth, undocumented immigrants, queer and trans people, and low-income tenants.

Project:

Grassroots Asians Rising

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • National Partnership for New Americans
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Climate Justice Collaborative at the National Partnership for New Americans builds the capacity of affiliated immigrant grassroots organizations to engage in climate justice work in their communities, and impact national narratives around climate migration.

Project:

Climate Justice Collaborative

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • National Partnership for New Americans
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

We Are All America (WAAA), a project of National Partnership for New Americans, works to uphold and strengthen our nation’s commitment to welcome and protect those seeking freedom, safety and refuge in the United States. WAAA organizes people across religious and cultural differences to build inclusive communities where we all belong.

Project:

We Are All America

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2020

MuslimARC, a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, builds capacity for racial justice in Muslim and allied communities through anti-racism workshops, presentations, panels, and keynotes to organizations and learning institutions across the country.

Project:

MuslimARC

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2020 to Oct 2022

Strategy:

General
  • University of Maryland
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland is conducting research comparing traditional social science methods of determining voting accessibility through distance-based calculations. This research seeks to improve the data and methods used to select and evaluate the accessibility of voting sites.

Project:

Research on Transportation Measures of Accessibility of Voting Locations

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Convergence Center for Policy Resolution
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2018

To support Convergence’s work to help Congress function more effectively through its work with the House Bipartisan Working Group (BPWG), which seeks to encourage members to engage in meaningful and consensus-driven dialogue on complex policy challenges with colleagues.

Project:

Convergence Planning Grant

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2018 to Nov 2019

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Media Democracy Fund
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2019

The Unicorn Fund at Media Democracy Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, is a one-year experimental 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:

Civic Participation/Public Participation, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2020

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • National Conference of State Legislatures
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2020

The National Conference of State Legislature’s Center for Legislative Strengthening (CLS) provides nonpartisan research and analysis for state legislators and legislative staff about legislative operations, procedure, and continuity planning. Their work bolsters the autonomy and effectiveness of the legislative branch of government in the 50 states and U.S. territories.

Project:

Center for Legislative Strengthening

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Dec 2020 to Mar 2022

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Center for Secure and Modern Elections
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2018

To support the Center for Secure and Modern Elections (CSME), a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund. CSME works across the country to increase the ease of registering to vote through pro-voter education and policy reform activities, including work on automatic voter registration. 

Project:

Center for Secure and Modern Elections

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Nov 2018 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Leadership Conference Education Fund, Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To support the Voting Rights Program within the Leadership Conference Education Fund as it expands its communications capacity and works to influence a shift in the national public narrative to center and support the self-empowerment of marginalized communities, re-establish voting as a fundamental right, and minimize the partisan lens on discourse around these issues.

Project:

Voting Rights Program Strategic Communications

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Dec 2020

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • The Pluribus Project
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

This grant will support “The Citizens Circle” project to develop a collaborative, scalable model to elevate constructive voices in local forums. 

Project:

Support for The Pluribus Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Apr 2018 to Mar 2019

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The National Center on Race and Digital Justice works on informing legislation, building strong networks of coordinated work, collaborating with grassroots organizers, conducting academic and legal research, curating public lectures, and supporting new thinkers and leaders.

Project:

The National Center on Race and Digital Justice

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Mar 2024

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • Center for Community Change
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Community Change is responding to the migrant bussing crisis. They coordinate with immigrant rights groups across the country that are receiving buses, and make connections between immigrant rights groups and other economic justice groups. They also build the grassroots field’s capacity to respond, and explore strategies to build long-term power from the rapid-response situation.

Project:

Building Capacity of Immigrant Rights Organizations

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

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:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
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