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
  • Foundation for City College
  • $350,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2021

The Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice, a leadership development initiative housed within the City University of New York, provides training and resources to leaders of color working in the democracy reform and social justice sectors.

Project:

Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice Seed Grant

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Center for Technology and Civic Life
  • $550,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) focuses on three areas: training local governments on technology to enhance engagement with their communities, developing low-to-no-cost tools for governmental use, and helping develop infrastructure to evaluate interactions between citizens and government.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Sep 2021 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • URL Media Holdings Inc
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2021

URL Media, a project of the International Women’s Media Foundation, is building and supporting a network of Black- and Brown-led newsrooms to harness their collective power and content for distribution, sustainability, and audience growth.

Project:

URL Media

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Solutions Journalism Network
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2021

The Democracy SOS Fellowship will provide training and resources to journalists in order to build a practice of more engagement, trust, and equity in civics, elections, and political reporting.

Project:

Democracy SOS

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Apr 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Our Body Politic
  • $75,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2021

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:

Aug 2021 to Apr 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2021

The Chicago Independent Media Alliance project at the Reader Institute for Community Journalism works to create a self-sustaining media ecosystem in Chicago. The Chicago Independent Media Alliance project is a partnership of independent and local media entities collaborating on editorial and revenue-generating models.

Project:

Chicago Independent Media Alliance

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Jun 2021 to May 2022

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Press On South Inc
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2021

Press On is a Southern media collective that catalyzes change and advances justice through the practice of movement journalism.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Dec 2022

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • 22nd Century Initiative
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

22nd Century Initiative, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center, facilitates widespread opposition to authoritarian movements and ideas, and resources organizations and networks to build an enduring, reparative, people-powered democracy.

Project:

22nd Century Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Black Women Leading
  • $55,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

Black Women Leading, a fiscally sponsored project of the POPVOX Foundation, funds and supports the Black Women’s Congressional Alliance (BWCA). BWCA works to promote, recruit and retain Black women on Capitol Hill. Their network consists of well over 300 active and engaged members.

Project:

Support for Black Women Leading

Foundation Center Topic:

Government, Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • LawWorks
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

The 65 Project, an initiative within LawWorks, a fiscally sponsored project of the Franklin Education Forum, works to increase the adoption of ethics best practices by lawyers and state bar associations.

Project:

Lawyer Ethics Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Other, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

May 2022 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The National Center on Race and Digital Justice works on informing legislation, building strong networks of coordinated work, collaborating with grassroots organizers, conducting academic and legal research, curating public lectures, and supporting new thinkers and leaders.

Project:

The National Center on Race and Digital Justice

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Mar 2024

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • Trustees of Tufts College
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

The MGGG Redistricting Lab, a project of the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University, conducts cutting-edge research modeling alternative election systems with modern mathematical and statistical tools, with a focus on STV (single transferable vote) elections within the family of ranked choice systems.

Project:

MGGG Redistricting Lab

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • Way to Rise
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

The Valiente Fund is a project of Way to Rise, a fiscally sponsored project of Amalgamated Charitable Foundation. The Valiente Fund will reimagine and scale resources to meet the needs of a growing Latino majority.

Project:

Valiente Fund Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Feb 2024

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) believes that asylum seekers can make great change by standing together. They provide their membership of asylum seekers with legal and community support.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • More in Common Inc.
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

More in Common’s (MiC) is conducting a three-part research strategy to better understand and diagnose the challenges around American identity, civic and cultural norms, race, polarization and violence mitigation. They will test and refine messaging to identify approaches that can reach and resonate with a majority of Americans.

Project:

American Identity Research & Messaging Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Grassroots Asians Rising
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Grassroots Asians Rising, a fiscally sponsored project of Chinese Progressive Association, is a national network of grassroots organizations rooted in working-class Asian communities. Their members support communities that live in the most precarious margins of power: refugees, low-wage workers, youth, undocumented immigrants, queer and trans people, and low-income tenants.

Project:

Grassroots Asians Rising

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Shoulder to Shoulder
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

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:

Shoulder to Shoulder

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • National Academy of Sciences
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Assessment of the Impact of Social Media on the Health and Wellbeing of Adolescents and Children project will examine the current research and make conclusions about the impact of social media on the health and wellbeing of adolescents and children.

Project:

Social Media Impact Assessment

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

May 2022 to Apr 2024

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Inner-City Muslim Action Network
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) was established with the goal of addressing structural and systemic injustices in inner-city communities by employing integrative holistic interventions. These include support services in: healthcare, ReEntry, arts access, community engagement and safety as well as inter-generational organizing and advocacy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Trustees of Princeton University
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) is a non-partisan research initiative that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States. BDI supports efforts to grow and build local community resilience through elections and other periods of heightened risk, laying a foundation for longer-term work to bridge the divides we face as a nation.

Project:

Bridging Divides Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
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