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
  • Partnership for Public Service Inc.
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2017

This grant supports the Partnership for Public Service’s efforts to support constructive, bipartisan congressional oversight. It has two components: case studies on effective congressional oversight, and an analysis of how to more effectively engage career executive branch officials around oversight.

Project:

Promoting Constructive Congressional Oversight

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Government/Executive Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Nov 2018

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • Faith and Politics Institute
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2018

General support for the Faith and Politics Institute.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Oct 2018 to Sep 2019

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Ethics and Public Policy Center, Inc.
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2018

This will grant will support the Faith Angle Forum project at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. 

Project:

Support for Faith Angle Forum

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Aug 2018 to Jul 2020

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Canopy Atlanta
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • President's Office
  • 2021

Canopy Atlanta trains and equips local journalists to tell in-depth stories in collaboration with residents of overlooked communities in metro Atlanta’s five core counties.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Mar 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Internet Archive
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2014

The Sunlight Foundation, Philadelphia’s Committee of Seventy, and the Internet Archive will be matching up the political ads with FCC-mandated public inspection file data from each station to uncover which groups paid how much for each political ad.

Project:

Philadelphia Media Ecosystem Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance

Grant Length:

Oct 2014 to Sep 2015

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) believes that asylum seekers can make great change by standing together. They provide their membership of asylum seekers with legal and community support.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, 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
  • Democracy Works Inc.
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

Founded by the CAA Foundation and Democracy Works, the Civic Alliance is a nonpartisan business coalition that encourages civic participation, supports safe, accessible and trusted elections, and works to inspire every American to participate in shaping our country’s future.

Project:

Civic Alliance Expansion Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Sep 2021 to Aug 2022

Strategy:

General
  • OpenSecrets
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, OpenSecrets is the nation’s premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Their mission is to track the flow of money in American politics and provide the data and analysis to strengthen democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Dēmos: A Network for Ideas and Action LTD
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

Through cutting-edge policy research, inspiring litigation and deep relationships with grassroots organizations, Demos champions solutions that will create a democracy and economy rooted in racial equity

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2020 to Nov 2021

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Arch + Bow Productions LLC
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

Arch + Bow Productions LLC, a fiscally sponsored project of Documentary Educational Resources, Inc., created a documentary that elevates awareness of the role of local elections officials in hosting safe, secure, and voter centric elections in the U.S.

Project:

RI LEO Film

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

Oct 2020 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • States at the Core
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

States at the Center, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc., helps local organizations by providing adaptable, implementable resources and expertise to the states and communities working to increase Americans’ faith in democracy and strengthen democratic institutions.

Project:

States at the Core

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Jun 2024 to May 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc.
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2021

This grant supports Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc.’s development of a training program for diverse professionals in the public service sector.

Project:

Support for Leadership Development Trainings

Foundation Center Topic:

Government, Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jul 2022

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Trustees of Tufts College
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2014

CIRCLE will lead a process engaging multiple experts that will develop an analysis of the strengths and weaknesses of the news literacy and associated fields. Subsequently they will propose and prototype an approach to building new networks between newsrooms, news literacy and youth civic engagement.

Project:

News Literacy Scoping & Planning

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Dec 2014 to Sep 2018

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc. dba The Vance Center
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

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 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Press Freedom
  • The National Trust for Local News
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The National Trust for Local News will create a network of sustainable, independent community news outlets in Georgia by purchasing at-risk community newspapers and developing a shared ownership and governance structure–the Georgia News Conservancy–that are sustainable and ensure quality and editorial independence.

Project:

Georgia Local News Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • The Pivot Fund
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Pivot Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of Online News Association, invests in the skills, capacity, and development of BIPOC-led and serving community media and lends their expertise to the broader work of building an equitable and robust Georgia local news ecosystem.

Project:

The Pivot Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Poynter Institute for Media Studies, Inc.
  • $130,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2018

The purpose of this grant is to fund the construction of an e-learning course focused on educating journalists on the legal issues related to libel and defamation, in an effort to mitigate risk and help reduce the likelihood of legal incidents. The training will cover multiple parts of the newsgathering and dissemination process, as well as what to do should one encounter an incident or claim.

Project:

Libel and Defamation Risk Mitigation Training

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to Mar 2021

Strategy:

Press Freedom
  • Millennial Action Project
  • $138,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2015

The matching grant with the Hewlett Foundation will allow Millennial Action Project to build on work this year to increase civil dialog and strengthen its own organization through collaborations with like-minded organizations while focusing on a key strategic constituency identified in our emerging map — younger Americans.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Dec 2015 to Nov 2016

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • And She Could Be Next LLC
  • $140,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

This grant supports impact campaign activities for And She Could Be Next, a documentary series celebrating women of color in leadership. The campaign aims to inspire and encourage the participation of young, more diverse, and politically skeptical American audiences in civic and democratic life.

Project:

And She Could Be Next

Foundation Center Topic:

Media

Grant Length:

Aug 2020 to Jul 2021

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • PEN American Center, Inc.
  • $140,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

PEN America defends press freedom and fosters local journalism. Their work includes events, organizing, and outreach with local communities, organizers and journalists to expand grassroots support for the role of the press in American democracy and the rights of all people under the First Amendment.

Project:

Press Freedom Incentive Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Press Freedom
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