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.
- 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 MigrationFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Dec 2024Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic IntegrationGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2024Strategy:
Power Building in Marginalized Communities- Trustees of Tufts College
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
To support the efforts of the Center for Information and Research on Civic Learning & Engagement (CIRCLE) at Tufts University in researching the intersection of youth engagement and election administration.
Project:
Research on Youth Engagement in Election AdministrationFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
Nov 2019 to Apr 2021Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- 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 AgencyFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Dec 2024Strategy:
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 2.0Foundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2020 to Oct 2021Strategy:
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 2022Foundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Dec 2022 to Nov 2023Strategy:
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 ChangeFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Oct 2022 to Jul 2024Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Judicial Selection and PerformanceGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Jul 2020 to Jun 2022Strategy:
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 JournalismFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
Journalism & Power Building- Trustees of Tufts College
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2022
The MGGG Redistricting Lab, a project of the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University, conducts cutting-edge research modeling alternative election systems with modern mathematical and statistical tools, with a focus on STV (single transferable vote) elections within the family of ranked choice systems.
Project:
MGGG Redistricting LabFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/RedistrictingGrant Length:
Dec 2022 to Nov 2023Strategy:
Representative Institutions- University of Wisconsin Foundation
- $100,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2023
The State Democracy Research Initiative fosters research and dialogue on state-level democracy, government, and public law across the nation. They produce and promote original academic research and bring together academics, judges, policymakers, and advocates to exchange insights and perspectives on matters related to democracy and the rule of law in the states.
Project:
State Democracy Research Initiative ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of LawGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Dec 2024Strategy:
General- Scalawag
- $100,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2022
Through journalism and storytelling, Scalawag works in solidarity with oppressed communities in the South to disrupt and shift the narratives that keep power and wealth in the hands of the few.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Oct 2022 to Sep 2023Strategy:
Ecosystem News- TechCongress Foundation
- $100,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2022
TechCongress places computer scientists, engineers, and other technologists to serve as technology policy advisors to Members of Congress through their Fellowship programs. They bridge the divide of knowledge and experience between DC and Silicon Valley for better outcomes for both.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch PerformanceGrant Length:
Oct 2022 to Sep 2023Strategy:
Empowering Congress- Neighborly Faith Inc.
- $100,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, OtherGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2024Strategy:
General- Hearken
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2022
Hearken’s Election SOS project, a fiscally sponsored project of the American Press Institute, provides training, coaching, and capacity support to journalists for more engaged, trusted, and responsive elections coverage in 2022.
Project:
Election SOSFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
May 2022 to Nov 2022Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- International Women's Media Foundation
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2022
The International Women’s Media Foundation’s Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund offers stipends to women-identifying Black journalists facing financial hardship to access critical mental health services.
Project:
Black Journalists Therapy Relief FundFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Jul 2022 to Jun 2023Strategy:
Journalism & Power Building- Church World Service, Inc.
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
Church World Service’s Refugee Organizing project includes grassroots organizing, power-building, and leadership development in refugee communities.
Project:
Refugee OrganizingFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic IntegrationGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
Power Building in Marginalized Communities- URL Media Holdings Inc
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2021
URL Media, a project of the International Women’s Media Foundation, is building and supporting a network of Black- and Brown-led newsrooms to harness their collective power and content for distribution, sustainability, and audience growth.
Project:
URL MediaFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Jul 2021 to Jun 2022Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- Shoulder to Shoulder
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
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.