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.
- Pop Culture Collaborative
- $250,000.00
- General Operating Support
- 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.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Jun 2022 to Dec 2024Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- 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 RoadmapFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Aug 2022 to Aug 2023Strategy:
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 CollectiveFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Oct 2022 to Sep 2024Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, Government, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2024Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
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 FundFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of LawGrant Length:
Sep 2022 to Aug 2023Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Oct 2022 to Sep 2023Strategy:
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 ConveningFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, OtherGrant Length:
Aug 2022 to Aug 2023Strategy:
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 LifeFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of LawGrant Length:
Aug 2022 to Nov 2023Strategy:
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, OtherGrant Length:
Jun 2022 to Apr 2024Strategy:
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 BuildingFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
Jun 2022 to Dec 2024Strategy:
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.