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
  • 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
  • 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
  • Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) is conducting a major research project that aims to answer key questions about the causes, perceptions, and realities of climate migration.

Project:

CEIP Climate Migration

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • National Immigration Law Center
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is one of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Detroit Narrative Agency
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2023

Detroit Narrative Agency (DNA), a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, is a community organization that disrupts harmful narratives about Detroit. They do this by supporting Black, Indigenous, People of Color Detroiters to explore and create media storytelling projects that build collective healing, power and liberation.

Project:

Detroit Narrative Agency

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Spaceship Media
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

Spaceship Media 2.0, a fiscally sponsored project of Social Good Fund, serves journalists by developing skills and capacity through Dialogue Journalism methods and local engagement.

Project:

Spaceship Media 2.0

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2020 to Oct 2021

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Participatory Budgeting Project Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • President's Office
  • 2022

The Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) works with communities across the US and Canada to decide together how to best spend public money. They create and support participatory budgeting (PB) processes that deepen democracy, build stronger communities, and make public budgets more equitable and effective.

Project:

Participatory Budgeting General Operating Renewal 2022

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Northeastern University
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Center for Communication, Media Innovation & Social Change at Northeastern University explores the intersection of media and communication with race, gender, power and media advocacy/social activism.

Project:

Northeastern Center for Communications, Media Innovation and Social Change

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Jul 2024

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • People's Parity Project
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

The People’s Parity Project is a nationwide network of law students and new attorneys organizing to unrig the legal system and build a justice system that values people over profits.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Judicial Selection and Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Journalism & Women Symposium
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2020

The Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) is expanding their regional programming and diversifying their membership to support their mission to empower and grow the number of women in journalism.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jul 2020 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Morgan State University Foundation Incorporated
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

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 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
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