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
  • Media Democracy Fund
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2018

To provide support to Media Democracy Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, to further the NetGain Partnership and to support engagement of organizations led by and serving communities of color in debates around platforms, power, and the public interest.

Project:

Netgain Partnership & Platform Accountability

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Dec 2018 to Nov 2019

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Demand Progress Education Fund
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2017

This grant will provide support to Demand Progress, an organization that plays a critical education and advisory role on a variety of institutional practice and rulemaking areas that affect congressional capacity to function.

Project:

Legislative Capacity Project at Demand Progress, a Project of the New Venture Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2017 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Library of Congress
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2017

This grant will renew support for training programs developed by the Library of Congress. Specifically, this grant will extend Democracy Fund support for the Congressional Research Service – a division of the Library of Congress – to conduct orientation seminars for newly-elected members of the 116th Congress and for the John W. Kluge Center at the Library to conduct a congressional masterclass series on governance-related topics of wide interest by leading academics. 
The grant will also support two historical exhibits that will showcase important Library resources and collections for congressional audiences and the broader public. One exhibit will focus on the history of Baseball and the exhibit will focus on the women’s’ movement. The goal of the exhibits is to educate members of Congress and others who might not seek education on the role of race in sports or the history of gender (in)equity in the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.

Project:

Support for New Member Seminars and Public-Facing Programming

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2017 to Mar 2023

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • The Equity Alliance
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support to The Equity Alliance

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Sep 2019 to Aug 2022

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Democracy North Carolina
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2019

This grant provides general operating support for Democracy North Carolina (DemNC). The organization works to protect the right to vote, reduce the role of money in politics, and advance fair redistricting in North Carolina.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Nov 2019 to Oct 2022

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • New Jersey Civic Information Consortium
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

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 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • 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
  • Democracy Works Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

Democracy Works is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that collaborates with election officials, leading tech platforms, and world-class partners to drive voter access and participation. They create tools, technology, and data to protect and power our democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Jul 2023 to Jun 2024

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Our Body Politic
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2022

Our Body Politic, a fiscally sponsored project of Aubin Pictures, Inc., is a podcast centered on how Black women, and all women of color, experience the major political events of today, as well as how they are leading and innovating on these issues.

Project:

Our Body Politic

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Jun 2022 to May 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism CUNY Foundation, Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Center for Community Media (CCM) at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York will continue expanding its role as a national hub for outlets serving minority and immigrant communities and advocating for greater investment in community media overall.

Project:

Center for Community Media

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jul 2022 to Jun 2024

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • News Revenue Hub Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

News Revenue Hub supports journalism that improves lives — and fights misinformation.

Project:

General Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • 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
  • The Aspen Institute Inc
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2020

Working with ideologically and diverse group of organizations, the Aspen Institute Citizenship and American Identity Program will produce public-facing materials, including a report with actionable recommendations and video tools, to help people rethink what the meaning of American ideals and identity.

Project:

Aspen Institute Citizenship and American Identity Program

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Jul 2020 to Jun 2023

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Business Forward Foundation
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Business Forward Foundation is a research and educational organization that takes a business-minded look at policy issues affecting America’s economic competitiveness. Through white papers, issue briefs, conference calls, and other events, they educate policy makers and the public about climate change, immigration reform, infrastructure investment, and other critical issues.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • National Partnership for New Americans
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Climate Justice Collaborative at the National Partnership for New Americans builds the capacity of affiliated immigrant grassroots organizations to engage in climate justice work in their communities, and impact national narratives around climate migration.

Project:

Climate Justice Collaborative

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Center for Civic Design
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The Center for Civid Design applies design thinking to how elections invite participation in the democratic process. They support election officials in making materials and processes clear, easy, and effective by researching the needs of voters for access, information, and opportunity to vote.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Values United d/b/a Whistleblower Aid
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2020

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 2020 to Nov 2022

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • Election Center
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

In late 2022, electionline.org became a project of The Election Center, and this grant provides support for the transition of the website. The Election Center’s purpose is to promote, preserve, and improve democracy. The Center is also known as the National Association of Election Officials.

Project:

Electionline

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • OpenSecrets
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2023

Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, OpenSecrets is the nation’s premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Their mission is to track the flow of money in American politics and provide the data and analysis to strengthen democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • ProGeorgia State Table Inc
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

ProGeorgia is a bold, trusted, and diverse collaborative that champions an equitable and inclusive democracy, for and with traditionally underrepresented communities. They support and coordinate the civic engagement programs of their diverse partner organizations.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
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