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.
- 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 GrantFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Dec 2021 to Nov 2023Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Sep 2021 to Aug 2023Strategy:
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 MediaFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Jul 2021 to Jun 2022Strategy:
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 SOSFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Aug 2021 to Apr 2022Strategy:
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 PoliticFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Aug 2021 to Apr 2022Strategy:
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 AllianceFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Jun 2021 to May 2022Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Dec 2021 to Dec 2022Strategy:
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 InitiativeFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
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 AssessmentFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
May 2022 to Apr 2024Strategy:
Digital Democracy- 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 LeadingFoundation Center Topic:
Government, Government/Legislative Branch PerformanceGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
Constructive Politics- 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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
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 InitiativeFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Dec 2022 to Nov 2023Strategy:
Power Building in Marginalized Communities- Pop Culture Collaborative
- $250,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
The Becoming America Fund at Pop Culture Collaborative, a fiscally sponsored project of Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors, is a donor collaborative working to unleash the power and scale of pop culture to transform the narrative landscape surrounding people of color, immigrants, refugees, Muslims, and Indigenous peoples—especially those who are women, queer, transgender, and/or disabled—in America.
Project:
Becoming America Fund at Pop Culture CollaborativeFoundation Center Topic:
Other, MediaGrant Length:
Oct 2022 to Mar 2024Strategy:
General- Undivided, Inc
- $100,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
UNDIVIDED Inc. provides six-week LivingUNDIVIDED cohort experiences, where they invite participants to reckon with history, build solidarity across race and ethnicity, and commit to action to advance racial healing and justice in their communities.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Dec 2023Strategy:
General- Center for Christianity and Public Life
- $100,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
The Center for Christianity and Public Life (CCPL) is a nonpartisan institution in the nation’s capital that contends for the credibility of Christian resources in public life, for the public good. They believe Christians have much to contribute to the effort to build a healthy, inclusive civic pluralism in 21st century America.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Public Participation, OtherGrant Length:
Dec 2022 to Nov 2023Strategy:
General- The Brookings Institution
- $175,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2022
Brookings Senior Fellows will conduct a series of researcher and former practitioner convenings to consider new and innovative ideas for changing the Senate including, but not limited to, its composition and its rules and practices.
Project:
Future of the Senate ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch PerformanceGrant Length:
Sep 2022 to Aug 2025Strategy:
General- New America Foundation
- $375,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2022
Launched in 2014, New America’s Political Reform program seeks to develop new strategies and innovations to repair the dysfunction of government, restore civic trust, and realize the potential of American democracy.
Project:
Political Reform Project Renewal 2022Foundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Executive Branch Performance, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Aug 2022 to Jul 2025Strategy:
General- State Voices
- $550,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2022
The State Voices network of nonpartisan state coalitions, called “tables,” works with hundreds of grassroots organizations to break down barriers to civic participation and to bring underrepresented and marginalized populations — and their issues — to the center of public discourse.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Aug 2022 to Jul 2024Strategy:
General- CivicTN
- $250,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2022
CIVIC TN is a coalition that strengthens the collective impact of, and collaboration between, nonprofit 501(c)(3) community and advocacy organizations that empower Black, Latinx, New Americans, low-income families, single women and young voters.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Jun 2022 to Mar 2024Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- ThinkTennessee
- $250,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2022
ThinkTennessee is a nonpartisan, results-oriented think tank that uses research and advocacy to build a state where all Tennesseans are civically engaged and economically secure.