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.
- 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 JusticeFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Jul 2024 to Sep 2026Strategy:
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 CenterFoundation 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 AccessGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2024Strategy:
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 KesebFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2025Strategy:
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 LabFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Oct 2024 to Sep 2026Strategy:
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 CageFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Dec 2018 to Nov 2021Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2025Strategy:
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 FundFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Jul 2025Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Dec 2024 to Nov 2026Strategy:
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 InitiativeFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and Policy, Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2024 to Apr 2026Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training, MediaGrant Length:
Nov 2024 to Oct 2027Strategy:
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 FundFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, OtherGrant Length:
Sep 2024 to Aug 2027Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Aug 2024 to Jul 2027Strategy:
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 ZeroFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Sep 2024 to Aug 2027Strategy:
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 OutreachFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2025Strategy:
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 InitiativeFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
May 2020 to Apr 2022Strategy:
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 ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2026Strategy:
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 OrganizingFoundation 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 AccessGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2024Strategy:
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 OrganizingFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic IntegrationGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2026Strategy:
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 PipelineFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Sep 2023 to Aug 2025Strategy:
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.