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
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc.
  • $175,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2021

The Defending Democratic Institutions (DDI) project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) assesses and counters technology-enabled threats to our judicial system. The project sends alerts about threats from malign interference, trains judiciary workers on how to respond to threats, and conducts research into this interference.

Project:

Defending Democratic Institutions

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Government/Judicial Selection and Performance

Grant Length:

Jun 2021 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • University of Chicago
  • $180,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2018

This grant will support Bright Line Watch, an effort to monitor the health of our democracy by regularly surveying the expert opinion of political scientists. The project also convenes academics and other thinkers to bring attention to key trends in our democracy, particularly through a comparative global lens. 

Project:

Bright Line Watch

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2018 to Mar 2021

Strategy:

General
  • Press On South Inc
  • $180,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

PressOn, a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, is building a diverse set of resources, including trainings, fellowships and opportunities for network-building, to help journalists and storytellers produce reporting that’s driven by communities in the South.

Project:

PressOn / Center for Movement Journalism

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2020 to Nov 2021

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • The City University of New York School of Law Foundation, Inc.
  • $180,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2020

Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility (CLEAR), a project at CUNY Law Foundation, address the legal needs of Muslim and all other communities and movements in the New York City area and beyond.

Project:

CLEAR CUNY

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Other, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Nov 2020 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

General
  • The Obsidian Collection Archives
  • $185,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2018

General support grant to Obsidian Collection.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Jun 2018 to Dec 2019

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Voice of San Diego
  • $188,414.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2015

The purpose of this grant is to support Voice of San Diego’s Membership Academy.

Project:

Membership Academy Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2015 to Dec 2017

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • The National Trust for Local News
  • $190,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2021

The National Trust for Local News, a project of the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, will create a network of sustainable, independent community news outlets in Georgia by purchasing at-risk community newspapers and developing ownership and governance structures that create sustainability efficiencies as well as ensure quality and editorial independence.

Project:

Local Community Paper Exploration

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2021 to Feb 2023

Strategy:

General
  • The Governance Lab
  • $190,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2021

GovLab, a fiscally-sponsored project of the Fund for the City of New York, will hire a Fellow to support the launch of Smarter Crowdsourcing, which combines rigorous problem definition with crowdsourcing to attract ideas from diverse experts and then develop policy recommendations.

Project:

GovLab Congressional CrowdLaw

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Public Participation, Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Sep 2021 to Dec 2022

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • State Innovation Exchange
  • $195,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

State Innovation Exchange (SiX) is a national resource and strategy center that collaborates with state legislators to improve people’s lives through transformative public policy. SiX works in close coordination with legislators, advocacy groups, think tanks, and activists to provide the tools and information legislators need to be successful.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Government, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Representative Leadership
  • Latino Community Fund Inc
  • $195,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

Latino Community Fund Georgia (LCF Georgia) supports Latinx-serving and Latinx-led nonprofit organizations that are advancing democracy, protecting and building community, and facilitating economic opportunities for all.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Apr 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • Charlottesville Tomorrow
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2024

Charlottesville Tomorrow is a community-driven, socially conscious news organization. They serve their neighbors by connecting them to each other and to the issues that affect them most.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Trustees of Princeton University
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

The Bridging Divides Initiative’s (BDI) is a non-partisan research initiative at Princeton University that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States.

Project:

Tracking and Mitigating Political Violence in the US

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Trustees of Princeton University
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) is a non-partisan research initiative that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States. BDI supports efforts to grow and build local community resilience through elections and other periods of heightened risk, laying a foundation for longer-term work to bridge the divides we face as a nation.

Project:

Bridging Divides Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • National Security Archive Fund Inc
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2023

Founded in 1985 by journalists and historians, and based at the George Washington University, the National Security Archive provides highly credible, evidence-based, award-winning investigative journalism, scholarship, and openness advocacy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Aug 2023 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Internews Network
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Listening Post Collective, a project of Internews, uses strategy and capacity building for local and community news primarily led by and serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, to build engaged and trusted journalism. Their programs focus on news deserts and place-based community media systems.

Project:

Listening Post Collective

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Nonprofit Vote
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

This grant supports Nonprofit VOTE’s coordination of their National Voter Registration Day (NVRD). Nonprofit VOTE works to recruit, educate, and empower local partners to participate in NVRD and register voters, while simultaneous launching a national media campaign to amplify those efforts.

Project:

National Voter Registration Day III

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Feb 2021 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Local Solutions Support Center
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2023

Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC), a project of the New Venture Fund, is a national hub that connects, coordinates, and creates efforts to both counter the increasing misuse of preemption, and to strengthen local democracy. Preemption is when higher levels of government restricts the authority of a lower level of government to act on a particular issue.

Project:

Local Solutions Support Center

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

State and Local Accountability
  • Government Accountability Project Inc
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2024

Government Accountability Project’s mission is to promote corporate and government accountability by protecting whistleblowers, advancing occupational free speech, and empowering citizen activists.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Jun 2024 to May 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • The Brookings Institution
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Brookings Institution is researching the impact of climate change and climate migration on American systems of democracy and governance.

Project:

Brookings Research: Climate Impact on Democracy

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2023 to Jan 2025

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Democracy North Carolina
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

Democracy North Carolina (DemNC) works to strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Apr 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
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