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
  • Chalkbeat Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

This project grant supports the Sunnylands Local News Initiative as run by Chalkbeat, will work to reimagine, revitalize, and resource local news in service of our democracy through a series of research, gatherings, and coordinated convenings.

Project:

Sunnylands Local News Roadmap

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Internews Network
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Listening Post Collective, a project of Internews, uses strategy and capacity building for local and community news primarily led by and serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, to build engaged and trusted journalism. Their programs focus on news deserts and place-based community media systems.

Project:

Listening Post Collective

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • State Innovation Exchange
  • $195,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

State Innovation Exchange (SiX) is a national resource and strategy center that collaborates with state legislators to improve people’s lives through transformative public policy. SiX works in close coordination with legislators, advocacy groups, think tanks, and activists to provide the tools and information legislators need to be successful.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Government, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Representative Leadership
  • Faith Matters Network Collaborative
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Faith Matters Network catalyzes personal and social change by equipping community organizers, faith leaders, and activists with resources for connection, spiritual sustainability, and accompaniment.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project (RDYR) is an independent nonprofit investigative reporting and research organization that advances public understanding of the unique risks that America’s rural youth face online. They convene stakeholders including researchers, journalists, technologists, parents, educators, religious leaders, and mental health providers.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Faith In/And Democracy (FIAD) is a funding and learning initiative that explores the ways faith and faith communities support democracy and civic life. Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement (PACE) leads and administers this initiative because they believe faith can ease divisions that plague our political processes and social fabric.

Project:

Support for Faith In/And Democracy Pooled Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Neighborly Faith Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Neighborly Faith (NF) brings pluralism education to Evangelical college students with little first-hand experience with it, limited appreciation for it, and who other organizations cannot reach. Nearly all Evangelical faith leaders (lay and professional) attend Evangelical colleges at some point in their lives. Very few of these colleges talk about pluralism. NF is changing this.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • The Horizons Project
  • $110,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The Horizons Project, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, will bring together anti-authoritarian organizers and allies to develop processes and structures for enhanced collaboration.

Project:

Anti-Authoritarian Strategery Convening

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Georgetown University
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life supports the efforts of U.S. Catholic leadership to advance the common good in our multiracial, pluralist democracy. The Initiative also strengthens the U.S. Catholic community’s resistance to the misuse and distortion of Catholic principles for anti-democratic ideological ideas and goals.

Project:

The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Western States Center Inc.
  • $375,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Western States Center works to build a future where all people can live, love, worship, and work free from bigotry and fear. They foster leaders, organizations, collaborations, and initiatives that reduce disparities and advance equity; lift up the leaders of marginalized communities; and deliver accessible tools for community organizing and civic engagement.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Other

Grant Length:

Jun 2022 to Apr 2024

Strategy:

General
  • League of Women Voters Education Fund
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

The League of Women Voters Education Fund addresses mis- and dis-information and builds states’ capacity for voter protection.

Project:

State Capacity Building

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

Jun 2022 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • PEN American Center, Inc.
  • $215,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

PEN American combats online harassment of journalists through trainings for newsrooms and journalism membership associations on how to prepare and react to online attacks, as well as through their publicly available Online Manual Field Guide, which crowdsources resources and tools in the field to counter online abuse.

Project:

Combatting Online Harassment

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Jan 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The National Association of LGBTQ Journalists is a journalist-led association working within the news media to advance fair and accurate coverage of LGBTQ+ communities and issues. They promote diverse and inclusive workplaces by holding the industry accountable and providing education, professional development and mentoring.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

May 2022 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Online News Association
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Online News Association (ONA) works to build a stronger journalism field that serves an engaged and informed public. Their programs for digital journalists and related fields include professional development, community-building, shared learning, and more.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jun 2022 to May 2023

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • 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
  • Journalism & Women Symposium
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Journalism and Women Symposium (JAWS) is expanding their regional programming and diversifying their membership to support their mission to empower and grow the number of women in journalism.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jul 2022 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Institute for Nonprofit News
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Institute for Nonprofit News is a critical anchor organization, providing support, training and networking for America’s almost 250 nonprofit journalism organizations.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Maynard Institute was founded to promote diversity and antiracism in the news media through improved coverage, hiring and business practices. They challenge the systemic lack of diversity in the news industry through training, collaborations and convenings.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Jul 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • PEN American Center, Inc.
  • $140,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

PEN America defends press freedom and fosters local journalism. Their work includes events, organizing, and outreach with local communities, organizers and journalists to expand grassroots support for the role of the press in American democracy and the rights of all people under the First Amendment.

Project:

Press Freedom Incentive Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Press Freedom
  • Kairos Fellowship Inc.
  • $215,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

Kairos Fellowship, a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects Inc., trains fellows in digital-first campaigning who are placed at state and national power-building organizations.

Project:

Kairos Fellowship

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
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