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 on Race and Digital Justice
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Center on Race and Digital Justice, a fiscally sponsored project of Code for Science and Society, works with students, faculty, civil society organizations, technology workers, community organizers, storytellers, and policy makers to develop solutions for the existential threats posed by unregulated technology products and practices.

Project:

Center on Race and Digital Justice

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Jul 2024 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • Democracy Revival Center
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2023

The Democracy Revival Center, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center, will bring a generation of social and economic justice leaders, working across issue silos, into the long-term fight to transform political and governing institutions—and lay the groundwork for them to succeed.

Project:

Democracy Revival Center

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Redistricting, Government/Judicial Selection and Performance, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • Keseb
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2023

Keseb, a fiscally sponsored project of the Fund for Constitutional Government, is a nonpartisan, pro-democracy nonprofit organization building transnational alliances between democracy activists and entrepreneurs to fight authoritarian ideology, demagogic political leaders, and xenophobic movements.

Project:

Support for Keseb

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

General
  • The Revival Lab Project
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Revival Lab Project, a fiscally sponsored project of Aspiration, is documenting how the loss of BIPOC local media and community infrastructure, paired with increasingly inextricable relationship between tech companies, governments, and third-party entities, is fueling a social, economic and public health crisis

Project:

The Revival Lab

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Civil & Human Rights Online
  • Vanderbilt University
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2018

To support George Washington University’s The Monkey Cage in its efforts to make the political conversation more informed by timely, accessible, and sound research from a publicly oriented political science discipline and less dominated by evidence-free arguments. This is achieved by increasing the public engagement of political scientists and other academics and connecting academics with key audiences among journalists, policy analysts, and lay readers.

Project:

The Monkey Cage

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to Nov 2021

Strategy:

General
  • Youth Engagement Fund
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The Youth Engagement Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, brings together philanthropic and organizational decision-makers across the country to invest in youth of color organizations and leaders in the aforementioned priority states as catalysts in creating an inclusive multiracial democracy that is reflective of all people.

Project:

YEF Project Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • Solidaire Network Inc
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Janisha R. Gabriel Movement Protection Fund (MPF) moves resources rapidly to protect frontline organizers from state repression, vigilante violence, and digital attacks.

Project:

Movement Protection Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Undivided, Inc
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

UNDIVIDED offers workshops, academically validated cohort programs, keynotes, and trainings that lead people toward awareness, through growth, and into action for racial justice in their communities and organizations. Through experiential programming, their trained facilitators engage participants in courageous conversations that create measurable impact.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Dec 2024 to Nov 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Local Legal Initiative places full-time staff attorneys throughout the country to provide direct legal services to journalists and news outlets engaged in state and local enterprise and investigative reporting.

Project:

Local Legal Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Apr 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Press On South Inc
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2024

Press On, a Southern media collective, catalyzes change and advances justice through the practice of movement journalism. They train, resource, and build the capacity and narrative power of journalists, media makers, and community organizers from Southern BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, working-class, rural, disabled, immigrant, youth, and elder communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Oct 2027

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

Black Migrant Power Fund, a community-led fund housed at Neo Philanthropy Inc.’s Four Freedoms Fund, supports Black-led, grassroots organizations addressing the urgent needs of Black migrant communities and building power with and for Black migrants in the US.

Project:

Black Migrant Power Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2027

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

Launched in 2020, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) was founded by Heidi Beirich and Wendy Via to address the gap in efforts to stop transnational hate and far-right extremism movements, particularly U.S.-based activity that is exported to other countries and across borders.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Aug 2024 to Jul 2027

Strategy:

General
  • Over Zero
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

Over Zero, a fiscally sponsored project of Hopewell Fund, partners with community leaders, civil society, and researchers to harness the power of communication to prevent, resist and rise above identity-based violence and other forms of group-targeted harm.

Project:

Over Zero

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2027

Strategy:

General
  • Mi Familia Vota Education Fund
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

Mi Familia Vota Education Fund’s develops and implements non-partisan field programs and strategies for the diverse Latino population to promote citizenship, increase voter registration, and increase voter participation. Their Election Administration Outreach program increases the communities’ understanding to foster trust in the electoral process among Latino voters.

Project:

Election Administration Outreach

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Trustees of Princeton University
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2020

To support the Bridging Divides Initiative, at Princeton University, which works to mitigate political violence in the United States by laying the groundwork for a more coordinated response.  

Project:

Support for Bridging Divides Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

May 2020 to Apr 2022

Strategy:

General
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Tthe Practicing Democracy Project at Harvard Kennedy School of Government believes that equipping people with the collective capacity to contest political, economic, and cultural power — that is, by enabling organization — people can realize the promises of democracy. The project will establish an endowed program in democratic organizing at Harvard University.

Project:

Practicing Democracy Project

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) , a fiscally sponsored project of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, is a dynamic collective of social justice funders and youth organizing practitioners dedicated to advancing youth organizing as a strategy for youth development and social change.

Project:

Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Church World Service, Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Church World Service’s Refugee Organizing project includes grassroots organizing, power-building, and leadership development in refugee communities.

Project:

Refugee Organizing

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Marshall-Wythe School of Law Foundation
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The eBenchbook and Alliance of Students at the Polls (ASAP) projects of the Election Law Program, a joint project of William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law and and the National Center on State Courts. eBenchbook builds state-specific resources to assist judges in resolving election disputes. ASAP works to deploy law students to improve public trust in elections.

Project:

Election Law State Courts Research and Law Student Pipeline

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Sep 2023 to Aug 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • International Refugee Assistance Project Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) works for a more humane, efficient, and welcoming refugee and asylum processes in the United States by empowering displaced persons to use the law as a tool to claim their rights, through an aligned program of legal aid, impact litigation, and advocacy.

Project:

Project support to IRAP

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
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