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
  • Values United d/b/a Whistleblower Aid
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Whistleblower Aid’s mission is to report and fix government and corporate lawbreaking — without breaking the law. Their lawyers help clients to stay safe while making impactful disclosures that change policies, because should have to risk their career or their freedom to follow their conscience.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • State Leadership Project
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

State Leadership Project (SLP) is 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on resourcing nonpartisan efforts to grow a sustainable civic ecosystem. They cultivate donor communities to fund and build the state infrastructure needed to ensure free and fair elections, combat mis and disinformation, register and educate voters, and support policies that will help achieve a multiracial democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Jul 2023 to Jun 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Common Cause Education Fund
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2019

To be able to review, process and legally share with other partners the volume of documents connected to Thomas Hofeller, now in the possession of Common Cause Education Fund.

Project:

Redestricting | Document Review

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Redistricting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Nov 2020

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Mississippi Votes
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

Mississippi Votes works to increase voter registration and turnout (specifically within 18-35 voting bloc) through innovative and high-tech engagement programming and outreach strategies. They also engage traditional organizing techniques to cater to the needs of today’s voters.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Nov 2020 to Oct 2022

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Justice Work
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

22nd Century Initiative is a project of Justice Work, a fiscally sponsored project of the National Center for Civic Innovation. The Initiative addresses the expansion and mainstreaming of white nationalism and other far right movements in the U.S. by developing strategies, networks, research, and actions that protect the integrity of our democracy.

Project:

22nd Century Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Public Policy and Education Fund of New York, Inc.
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2021

The Public Policy and Education Fund of New York provides training, coaching, and leadership development to build a more diverse, resilient and effective democracy movement.

Project:

Grassroots Training and Coaching

Foundation Center Topic:

Government, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jul 2022

Strategy:

General
  • National Governors Association Center for Best Practices
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

The NGA Center for Best Practices will provide resources and technical assistance to governors and their staff so state executive branches can better support election infrastructure security and resilience.

Project:

Election Security Governance

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Government

Grant Length:

Jun 2020 to Jun 2024

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • Action Center on Race and the Economy Institute
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

ACRE Institute was founded in 2017, when policies were implemented that disproportionately benefited financial institutions, while harming Black and Brown communities. ACRE Institute’s leadership brings deep experience researching, organizing, and campaigning around Wall Street accountability issues following the 2008 financial crisis.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Jul 2022 to Jun 2023

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • El-Hibri Foundation
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The El-Hibri Foundation (EHF) is a philanthropic organization that empowers and equips Muslim leaders and their allies to build thriving, inclusive communities. EHF has provided capacity building trainings and programs through their Collective Action Leadership Incubator (CALI) for over six years to leaders from American Muslim and ally communities who are collectively seeking to advance inclusion and promote pluralism in society.

Project:

Capacity Building Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • NAHJ Association
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2020

Through professional development services and scholarships, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) works to diversify mainstream newsrooms, so they better represent the communities they serve. NAHJ also advocates for the accurate representation of Latinos/Hispanic in news.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Oct 2020 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Trustees of Tufts College
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2017

To provide support for a 2-year research project that seeks to better understand the reasons why hard-to-reach youth populations choose not to vote and then create a set of guidelines that election officials can use to help address the needs of young voters. 

Project:

Working with Election Officials to Address Youth Participation

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • William J. Brennan, Jr. Center for Justice, Inc.
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

The Governance and Judiciary project is part of the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program. This project focuses on the erosion of confidence in democratic institutions; specifically, long-established guardrails that have protected the rule of law and the integrity of federal and state policy making, and the increasing hostility of federal courts to protecting civil and democratic rights.

Project:

Governance and Judiciary project

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government, Government/Judicial Selection and Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2020

General operating support for The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association. 

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media, Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Apr 2020 to Mar 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • New Jersey Civic Information Consortium
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The New Jersey Civic Information Consortium is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that funds initiatives to benefit the State’s civic life and meet the evolving information needs of New Jersey’s communities. The Consortium reimagines how public funding can be used to address the growing problem of news deserts, misinformation, and support more informed communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Race Forward
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Race Forward catalyzes movement building for racial justice. In partnership with communities, organizations, and sectors, they build strategies to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture. Founded in 1981, Race Forward brings systemic analysis and an innovative approach to complex race issues to help people take effective action toward racial equity.Race Forward was founded in 1981 as an initiative to bridge efforts between analysts and activists by working with community groups, government, and national organizations to develop and implement policy ideas that advance racial equity.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

Representative Leadership
  • New American Leaders Inc.
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

New American Leaders is leading a movement fighting for inclusive democracy by equipping immigrants, refugees, and their allies with the tools they need to realize their potential by running for and holding elected office, and by engaging in civic action that brings their voices to the forefront of American politics.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation, Government

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Representative Leadership
  • Vanderbilt University
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2021

The Monkey Cage is a platform which seeks to contribute timely, accessible, evidence-based analysis to public policy conversations.

Project:

The Monkey Cage

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

General
  • College to Congress
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2020

To provide general operating support for College to Congress.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Apr 2020 to Mar 2023

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • West Virginia University Foundation, Inc.
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To support critical data collection and analysis by West Virginia University’s Reed College of Media to document and analyze the networks and strategies being used to expose, recruit, and radicalize white youth in the Appalachian region in order to determine opportunities for intervention.

Project:

Researching Radicalization of White Youth in Appalachia

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Aug 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • City Bureau NFP
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

City Bureau works to address inequality in Chicago media. Their innovative programs engage Chicagoans directly in the process of producing civic media.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
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