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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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 Collaborative

Foundation Center Topic:

Other, Media

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Mar 2024

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

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 Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2025

Strategy:

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 2022

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Executive Branch Performance, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Jul 2024

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Jun 2022 to Mar 2024

Strategy:

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.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Jun 2022 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
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