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
  • 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
  • Institute for Nonprofit News
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Institute for Nonprofit News is a critical anchor organization, providing support, training and networking for America’s almost 250 nonprofit journalism organizations.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Solutions Journalism Network
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2019

To provide general operating support to the Solutions Journalism Network so they can continue to scale and adapt the work of infusing solutions journalism practice in newsrooms, building a journalism practice that better equips and informs communities to address social issues and fosters civic participation.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Millions of Conversations, Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

Millions of Conversations is a movement to transcend divides and bring Americans together through common values to create a shared future. Using Truth & Reconciliation work, they challenge narratives that stigmatize our fellow Americans, disrupt intolerance before it takes root, and help heal communities so all Americans may experience a sense of belonging.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Translash Media Inc
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Translash Media Inc., is a U.S-based and globally recognized Black, trans-led nonprofit news organization and digital community dedicated to telling trans stories to save trans lives. Using the power of journalism and personal narrative, TransLash creates, curates, and presents trans-affirming content, resources, and events in collaboration with their partners.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • National Partnership for New Americans
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

We Are All America (WAAA), a project of National Partnership for New Americans, works to uphold and strengthen our nation’s commitment to welcome and protect those seeking freedom, safety and refuge in the United States. WAAA organizes people across religious and cultural differences to build inclusive communities where we all belong.

Project:

We Are All America

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, 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
  • ProgressNow New Mexico Education Fund
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

ProgressNow NM Education Fund works with coalitions to promote progressive ideas and causes with creative, earned media strategies, digital organizing, and cutting-edge new media.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Civil & Human Rights Online
  • Partnership for Large Election Jurisdictions Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The Partnership for Large Election Jurisdictions (PLEJ) is an organization dedicated to providing peer-to-peer best practices, convening spaces, and information-sharing opportunities between local election officials.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

A fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc., BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund’s Spark Accelerator program provides funding, training, and other resources to organizers, founders, startup nonprofit organizations, and existing grassroots organizing and social justice advocacy groups working in under-resourced communities.

Project:

BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Aug 2023 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • Keep Our Republic Charitable Fund
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

Keep Our Republic is a non-partisan civic education organization dedicated to protecting a republic of laws and strengthening the checks and balances of our democratic electoral system. We aim to discover, highlight, and help prevent an array of extraordinary threats to American democracy, strengthen democratic guardrails, and educate the public before it is too late.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Mar 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Election Reformers Network Inc
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

To support a research project examining the conflicts that occur when the individual responsible for administering a state’s elections (in most states, the secretary of state) competes for elected office or publicly supports a competing candidate or party. Election Reformers Network will disseminate its research and findings through speaking engagements and a range of publications, including a statement of ethical standards and draft policy recommendations.

Project:

Chief Election Officer Conflict of Interest Project

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • The German Marshall Fund of the United States
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2017

To provide quick, expansive capacity for the Alliance for Securing Democracy at the German Marshall Fund to identify and support the best methods of pushing back on foreign threats to our US political system, whether they be through elections, misinformation and attempts to intervene in our governance programs. 

Project:

Project on Alliance for Securing Democracy (US)

Foundation Center Topic:

Media, Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to Oct 2018

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2017

Democracy Fund will support The Joint Center’s efforts to identify, screen, and counsel African-American candidates for jobs in the U.S. Congress.  

Project:

The Joint Center Black Talent Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Government/Executive Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Jul 2017 to Jun 2019

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • National Immigration Law Center
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2017

To support litigation and legal services around the Muslim Ban and other immigration policies that impact MASA communities as well as Latino and other immigrant communities

Project:

Support Immigration Litigation and Legal Services

Foundation Center Topic:

Other, Media/Media Access and Policy, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Oct 2017 to Sep 2018

Strategy:

General
  • Asian Law Caucus
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2017

To support direct litigation, legal services work, and to develop multi-lingual know-your-rights materials that can be delivered in MASA community centers.

Project:

Litigation, Legal Services, and Know Your Rights

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2017 to Sep 2018

Strategy:

General
  • Center for Democracy and Technology
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2017

The Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT)’s project will identify election cybersecurity issues and best practices in two critical areas: 1) voter registration databases and 2) campaign data and communications.

Project:

Election Cybersecurity Research and Best Practices

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Aug 2017 to Jul 2019

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • Fordham University
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2013

Researchers from Fordham University and other academic partners will conduct field experiments on the role of money in our political system.

Project:

Field Experiments on Money in Politics

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance

Grant Length:

Mar 2013 to Jul 2017

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
  • Government Accountability Project Inc
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2017

The National Whistleblower Initiatives for Truth campaign will expand their work protecting federal whistleblowers and promoting Congressional oversight of the Executive Branch.

Project:

National Whistleblower Initiatives for Truth Campaign

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Jun 2017 to May 2019

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • FairVote
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2013

FairVote will work with a team of academic partners to research the relationship between ranked choice voting and political conduct / civility.

Project:

Research on Rank Choice Voting

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Oct 2013 to Apr 2015

Strategy:

Previous Strategy
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