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.
- Spaceship Media
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2019
To support the pilot of Spaceship Local in Douglas, Arizona, rebuilding a news and information system through community engagement in a border town where reliable news sources are scarce. In addition to supporting this community, Spaceship Media is collecting valuable lessons on how their dialogue journalism model for engagement can be deployed more widely in geographic areas with similar needs.
Project:
Spaceship LocalFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2019 to Oct 2020Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- The Equity Alliance
- $25,000.00
- Project
- General and Field Building
- 2019
To provide capacity building support to The Equity Alliance to build out its HR policies, including developing a policy handbook, and devote additional resources to other capacity-building work, which could include an audit of organizational processes or other activities as needed.
Project:
Capacity-Building for Equity AllianceFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Dec 2019 to May 2020Strategy:
General- Asian Americans Journalists Association
- $100,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2019
To build organizational capacity to continue Asian Americans Journalists Association’s support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while partnering with media to ensure responsible and diverse coverage of AAPI communities.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Dec 2019 to Nov 2020Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- Pepperdine University
- $150,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2019
To provide continued support to The American Project at Pepperdine University, which will work to promote the vision of a “conservatism of connection” to more audiences, including leaders at the state and local level through a series of events, panels, convenings, and trainings.
Project:
Support for The American ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Government/Legislative Branch PerformanceGrant Length:
Feb 2019 to Jan 2020Strategy:
Constructive Politics- University of Arizona Foundation
- $250,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2019
To support the National Institute for Civil Discourse at The University of Arizona Foundation.
Project:
Support for NICD, a project of the University of Arizona FoundationFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Government/Legislative Branch PerformanceGrant Length:
May 2019 to Apr 2020Strategy:
Constructive Politics- Fair Elections Center
- $125,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
To provide support for growth and visibility of the website workelections.com, which is a site designed to collect and centralize poll worker information and applications from several jurisdictions, making it easier for local election officials and potential poll workers to connect and fill Election Day positions.
Project:
Pollworker Recruitment ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and VotingGrant Length:
Aug 2019 to Dec 2020Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Civic Culture Coalition
- $200,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
To support the efforts of the Civic Culture Coalition’s I Am A Voter campaign, fiscally sponsored by the Entertainment Industry Foundation, in organizing a meeting of major media leaders and increasing the number of artists and influencers participating in the campaign.
Project:
Support for I Am A Voter campaign activitiesFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
Aug 2019 to Jan 2021Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- New York University
- $50,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2019
To support the NYU Institute on the Arts and Civic Dialogue (IACD) as it organizes a convening entitled, “Radical Hospitality: Imagining Home for a Generation Displaced and Discarded – A Global Convening of Artists, Scholars, and Activists.” The convening will take place at La Pietra, the NYU academic center in Florence, Italy in 2020.
Project:
RAD Support of Radical Hospitality ConveningFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Dec 2019 to Nov 2021Strategy:
General- Hearken
- $104,230.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2019
To support the Hearken Engaged Elections project, a fiscally sponsored project of the American Press Institute, in promoting and spreading audience-centered innovation in elections coverage by newsrooms.
Project:
Engaged ElectionsFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Oct 2019 to Sep 2020Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- Community Foundation of New Jersey
- $250,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2019
To support the NJ Local News Lab Fund, which is investing in people and organizations working to make New Jersey’s news ecosystem more connected, collaborative, and sustainable.
Project:
Local News Lab Fund RenewalFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2019 to Oct 2020Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Foreign Policy Research Institute
- $125,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
The Foreign Policy Research Institute (FPRI) will analyze and distribute research on election mis/disinformation as promulgated by foreign actors. FPRI will provide a standardized review of state-sponsored media outlets, the themes and messages they advance in the U.S., and offer indicators of nefarious influence in social media.
Project:
Foreign Interference in Elections ResearchFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Nov 2019 to Feb 2021Strategy:
Trust in Elections- VotingWorks
- $350,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
The Voting Works Risk Limiting Audit (RLA) tool helps election officials calculate the number of ballots needed to conduct an RLA based on the risk limit they have set for a contest. Post-election auditing is one important way that election officials can prove the accuracy of election outcomes and inspire greater public confidence in the voting process.
Project:
Risk Limiting Audit Tool DevelopmentFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Dec 2019 to Dec 2020Strategy:
Trust in Elections- United We Dream
- $20,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2019
To support wellness and healing for frontline staff at United We Dream, and to learn about strategies, resources, and needs in the field.
Project:
RAD Healing and Wellness for United We DreamFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2019 to May 2020Strategy:
General- New York University
- $425,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2019
To support the Center for Critical Race & Digital Studies’s project on Racial Targeting and Digital Marketing, which will research and disseminate findings related to the ways online environments target and potentially discriminate against non-white users.
Project:
Researching Discriminatory TargetingFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Oct 2019 to Sep 2024Strategy:
Digital Democracy- NAHJ Association
- $200,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2019
This is a general operating grant to the National Association of Hispanic Journalists that will increase their support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while holding the media accountable in their portrayals of the diverse and evolving Hispanic community in the United States.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media/JournalismGrant Length:
May 2019 to Apr 2020Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- The Andrew Goodman Foundation Inc.
- $300,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2019
This grant will support the ongoing activities of the Andrew Goodman Foundation to promote youth civic engagement and participation through leadership development and opportunities to become active within their communities.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
Jan 2019 to Dec 2020Strategy:
Constructive Politics- Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, Inc.
- $30,000.00
- General Operating Support
- President's Office
- 2019
This grant supports Facing History and Ourselves in their mission to promote understanding, pluralism and civic engagement through classroom programming.
Project:
Lippman Kanfer Prize - Facing HistoryFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Mar 2019 to Mar 2020Strategy:
General- The Miami Foundation Inc.
- $1,300,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2019
The purpose of this grant is to grow and continue The Fund for Nonprofit News, fiscally sponsored by The Miami Foundation, in support of NewsMatch 2019 and 2020. The Fund supports a matching gifts program designed to encourage donations to nonprofit newsrooms and expand the capacity of nonprofit journalism to build their small donor base.
Project:
Fund for Nonprofit News - NewsMatch 2019 and 2020Foundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Jun 2019 to May 2021Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc.
- $300,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2019
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)’s Defending Democratic Institutions (DDI) project will assess and counter foreign technology-enabled threats to our judicial system by alerting members of the judiciary to threats from foreign adversaries, and train judges and their staff to mitigate the threats.
Project:
Countering Active-Measure Threats to the U.S. JudiciaryFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Judicial Selection and PerformanceGrant Length:
May 2019 to Dec 2020Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- TPF Special Assets Fund, DBA The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2019
The Community Listening and Engagement Fund (CLEF) is a philanthropic collaborative to subsidize the costs of engagement tools like Hearken, Groundsource, Coral Project, and Listening Post in newsrooms across the country to help them better connect with their communities.