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
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

The Center for Media Engagement will produce peer-reviewed research and practical recommendations that inform journalists and newsrooms on engagement practices, building and restoring trust, and serving diverse audiences.

Project:

Center for Media Engagement

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jan 2021 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • International Women's Media Foundation
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2020

International Women’s Media Foundation’s Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund offers stipends to women-identifying Black journalists facing financial hardship to access critical mental health services.

Project:

Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media

Grant Length:

Oct 2020 to Jan 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • ProGeorgia State Table Inc
  • $675,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2020

The Childcare Fund at ProGeorgia State Table Inc. will support access to affordable childcare for women of color among their 38 table partners. With safe and reliable childcare during the pandemic, these individuals will be able to continue the urgent work of voter engagement and delivery of direct services in vulnerable communities.

Project:

ProGeorgia Childcare Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Nov 2020 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Washington Center for Technology Policy Inclusion
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2021

The Washington Center for Technology Policy Inclusion (WashingTECH) convenes diverse technology public policy professionals to defend America’s rich diversity with programs that promote an inclusive narrative about technology’s impact on society.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Mar 2023

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • City Bureau NFP
  • $60,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2021

City Bureau is hiring a part-time coordinator to support an informal collective of community news partners to develop a theory of change, definitions, public communication, future convenings and other structures to realize their shared vision for the future of local media.

Project:

Capacity Building Coordination

Foundation Center Topic:

Media

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Nov 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Representative Democracy
  • $1,200,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2021

Representative Democracy, a fiscally sponsored project of the Miami Foundation, supports leadership development programs and innovative diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging (DEIB) solutions for governing institutions focused on building inclusive workplaces in the United States Congress.

Project:

Representative Democracy

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2021 to Feb 2025

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Nonprofit Vote
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

This grant supports Nonprofit VOTE’s coordination of their National Voter Registration Day (NVRD). Nonprofit VOTE works to recruit, educate, and empower local partners to participate in NVRD and register voters, while simultaneous launching a national media campaign to amplify those efforts.

Project:

National Voter Registration Day III

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Feb 2021 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • First Look Institute
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2021

Lawyers for Reporters, a joint project of the Cyrus R. Vance Center for International Justice and First Look Institute’s Press Freedom Defense Fund, provides pro bono legal assistance to local journalists and media organizations in the United States.

Project:

Lawyers for Reporters

Foundation Center Topic:

Media, Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

Press Freedom
  • ISRC Education Fund
  • $700,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

The Independent Strategic Research Collaborative Education Fund (ISRC), a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, provides research, messaging development, and research and communications alignment to the pro-democracy movement. Their work includes facilitating convening spaces for leaders to share intel, strategy, messaging guidance, and calls to action.

Project:

ISRC Education Fund Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

Nov 2021 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • BoricuActivatEd
  • $25,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2021

Created by a group of former congressional staffers, BoricuActivatEd empowers individuals of all ages and teaches them to become active in the public space. They hold free workshops in locations across the country, carried out by former public servants and former congressional staff members.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Fair Elections Center
  • $50,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

Fair Elections Center delivers nonpartisan, creative solutions to make the processes of voter registration, voting, and election administration as accessible as possible for every American, with a special focus on student and underrepresented voters.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Red Canary Song
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

Red Canary Song, a fiscally sponsored project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc., convenes migrant workers and provides mutual aid, including reproductive health and ob-gyn services for a growing population of migrant women. Their work includes outreach to those communities to make it feel safe for them to access these services in the first place.

Project:

RAD Support of Red Canary Song

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to May 2023

Strategy:

General
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

The Solidarity Journalism project, housed at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, conducts research and provides trainings to reporters on Solidarity Journalism, which centers communities that have been historically excluded or harmed by journalism’s portrayal of them.

Project:

RAD Support of Solidarity Journalism

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Jan 2024

Strategy:

General
  • New America Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

The New Models of Policy Change project, in the Political Reform Program, at New America Foundation supports work on community resilience against right wing extremism and growing political violence.

Project:

Political Reform Program on Resilience and Political Violence

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Jun 2021 to May 2022

Strategy:

General
  • 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
  • Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

Rural Digital Youth Resiliency conducts data collection and analysis to document and analyze the networks and strategies 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:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2021 to Oct 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Shoulder to Shoulder
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

Shoulder to Shoulder, a fiscally sponsored project of The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, trains faith and community leaders to address Islamophobia in their communities.

Project:

Support for Shoulder to Shoulder

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jul 2022

Strategy:

General
  • More in Common Inc.
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

More in Common’s three-part research strategy seeks to understand the challenges around American identity, civic and cultural norms, race, polarization, and violence mitigation. They will identify messaging and approaches that resonate with a majority of Americans.

Project:

American Identity Research & Messaging Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2021 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

General
  • BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

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:

Nov 2021 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Trinity Forum, Inc
  • $50,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

This grant provides general operating support for Trinity Forum.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Media

Grant Length:

May 2021 to Apr 2022

Strategy:

General
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