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 Andrew Goodman Foundation Inc.
  • $75,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2021

This grant provides general operating support.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • University of Maryland
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland is conducting research comparing traditional social science methods of determining voting accessibility through distance-based calculations. This research seeks to improve the data and methods used to select and evaluate the accessibility of voting sites.

Project:

Research on Transportation Measures of Accessibility of Voting Locations

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Tech Justice Fund
  • $850,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2021

Tech Justice Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of the Hopewell Fund, is launching a comprehensive public campaign that can inform and engage the public, change the narrative, help shift public opinion, and create an environment where Big Tech accountability is normalized and embedded in the mainstream policies and practices.

Project:

Tech Justice Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Apr 2025

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Algorithmic Justice League
  • $175,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2021

Algorithmic Justice League, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, conducts and publicizes research investigating algorithmic bias in high visibility commercial and public sector AI systems.

Project:

Algorithmic Justice League

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Mar 2023

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Asian Americans Journalists Association
  • $114,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2021

To build organizational capacity to continue Asian Americans Journalists Association’s support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while partnering with media to ensure responsible and diverse coverage of AAPI communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2021

The Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project is an independent nonprofit investigative reporting and research organization. They are producing the workshop series Building a Community of Practice: Reporting on Extremism for Small Newsrooms and Independent Journalists.

Project:

Reporting on Extremism

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jul 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Faith Matters Network Collaborative
  • $25,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

The Faith Matters Network’s Daring Compassion Movement Chaplaincy Project, a fiscally-sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, offers holistic wellness accompaniment to those leading social events, movements, and organizations.

Project:

Support for Faith Matters Network

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc.
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2021

This grant supports Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc.’s development of a training program for diverse professionals in the public service sector.

Project:

Support for Leadership Development Trainings

Foundation Center Topic:

Government, Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jul 2022

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Trusted Elections Fund
  • $900,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2021

To support the Trusted Elections Fund (formerly known as the Joint Fund for a Healthy Democracy), a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund. By strengthening civic infrastructure and election administration resiliency, the Trusted Elections Fund works to ensure free and fair elections.

Project:

Trusted Elections Fund 2021-2 Renewal

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Dec 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Interfaith Youth Core
  • $60,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

The Interfaith Innovation Fellows program provides training and funding for Interfaith Youth Core Alumni who are leading projects at the intersection of racial equity and interfaith cooperation.

Project:

Support for Interfaith Fellowship Program

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Apr 2021 to Mar 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc.
  • $175,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2021

The Defending Democratic Institutions (DDI) project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) assesses and counters technology-enabled threats to our judicial system. The project sends alerts about threats from malign interference, trains judiciary workers on how to respond to threats, and conducts research into this interference.

Project:

Defending Democratic Institutions

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Government/Judicial Selection and Performance

Grant Length:

Jun 2021 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • 131 & Counting
  • $15,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2021

To support 131 & Counting’s work to increase the number of women in Congress and public policy positions through educational and social forums that build a bipartisan network of women leaders.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Government

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Vanderbilt University
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2021

The Monkey Cage is a platform which seeks to contribute timely, accessible, evidence-based analysis to public policy conversations.

Project:

The Monkey Cage

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

General
  • American Journalism Project
  • $2,000,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2021

The American Journalism Project makes transformative investments in civic news organizations, building a new public service media that is governed by, sustained by, and looks like the public it serves.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Union of Concerned Scientists Inc.
  • $450,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2021

The Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) works to strengthen the role of science within the federal civil service sector. They will develop recommendations for better hiring practices, science program leadership, and performance accountability within the federal government to help it better serve the public interest.

Project:

Rebuilding Capacity in Science-Based Federal Agencies

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Center for Internet Security Inc.
  • $315,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

This grant supports the Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) Election Security Best Practices team’s development of security-focused tools and guidance for election officials and election technology providers.

Project:

Election Security Tools

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Jun 2021 to May 2023

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • The Governance Lab
  • $190,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2021

GovLab, a fiscally-sponsored project of the Fund for the City of New York, will hire a Fellow to support the launch of Smarter Crowdsourcing, which combines rigorous problem definition with crowdsourcing to attract ideas from diverse experts and then develop policy recommendations.

Project:

GovLab Congressional CrowdLaw

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Public Participation, Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Sep 2021 to Dec 2022

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • University of Chicago
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2021

Bright Line Watch, a project of the Chicago Center on Democracy at University of Chicago, conducts research, including longitudinal studies, on the health of American democracy.

Project:

Bright Line Watch

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Jun 2021 to May 2025

Strategy:

General
  • University of Southern California
  • $1,025,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

This grant provides support for the Center for Inclusive Democracy at the University of Southern California to maintain and expand the Vote Center and Ballot Drop Box Siting Tool.

Project:

USC Siting Tool Expansion

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jan 2024

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Accountable.US
  • $225,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2021

Accountable.US (A.US) is a nonpartisan, 501(c)3 organization that shines a light on special interests that too often wield unchecked power and influence in Washington and beyond. They conduct in-depth investigations to expose conflicts of interest and then share their findings with the media, public, policymakers, and allies in real-time.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
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