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
  • Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative
  • $105,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative (MuslimARC) focused on building capacity within Muslim and allied communities for racial justice. MuslimARC creates anti-racism curriculum and education resources, connects multi-racial and multi-faith networks via storytelling and media, and cultivates racial justice through leadership and community development programs.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Media Democracy Fund
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Unicorn Fund at Media Democracy Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, is an award program that supports under-resourced grassroots leaders, including independent journalists, who face attacks for expressing their ideas, telling the truth, and taking a stand on the front lines of narrative change.

Project:

Unicorn Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Southern Coalition for Social Justice
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

Southern Coalition for Social Justice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by a multidisciplinary group, predominantly people of color, who believed that communities engaged in social justice struggles need a team of lawyers, social scientists, community organizers, and media specialists to support them in their efforts to dismantle structural racism and oppression.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

May 2022 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Mississippi Votes
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

Mississippi Votes works to increase voter registration and turnout (specifically within 18-35 voting bloc) through innovative and high-tech engagement programming and outreach strategies. They also engage traditional organizing techniques to cater to the needs of today’s voters.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • New Georgia Project Incorporated
  • $80,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

New Georgia Project (NGP) builds power with and increases the civic participation of the New Georgia Majority — Black, Latinx, AAPI, and young Georgians — and other historically marginalized communities through nonpartisan voter registration, organizing, and advocacy on the issues important to our communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Chalkbeat Inc.
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

Votebeat is a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting access year-round.

Project:

Votebeat

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Feb 2023

Strategy:

General
  • National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2022

The mission of the National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators is to be the foremost organization serving and representing the interests of Hispanic state legislators from all states. The National Hispanic Caucus of State Legislators (NHCSL) is organizing the first joint meeting of the Quad Caucus.

Project:

Quad Caucus Joint Series

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Other, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to May 2023

Strategy:

General
  • National Security Archive Fund Inc
  • $75,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Founded in 1985 by journalists and historians, and based at the George Washington University, the National Security Archive provides highly credible, evidence-based, award-winning investigative journalism, scholarship, and openness advocacy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

May 2022 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • American Oversight, Inc.
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

American Oversight is a nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog that uses public records requests backed by litigation to fight corruption, drive accountability, and defend democracy. They believe transparency is a critical tool to promote integrity in government and to protect justice, truth, and the rule of law.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • Convergence Center for Policy Resolution
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

Convergence Center for Policy Resolution will create and convene a Roundtable on transforming the civil service to meet the needs of the 21st century. The Roundtable will be an incubator for different groups and stakeholders to share ideas about how to transform the system and attract, retain, and develop talented and diverse career public servants.

Project:

Roundtable on Modernizing the Civil Service

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Executive Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Jun 2022 to May 2023

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • Faith in Public Life, Inc.
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Faith in Public Life is a national movement of clergy and faith leaders united in the prophetic pursuit of justice, equality and the common good. Together, they are leading the fight to advance just policies at the local, state and federal levels.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Jul 2023

Strategy:

General
  • We the Veterans Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

We the Veterans Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization created by veterans and military family members. They empower the veteran and military family community to strengthen American democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Protect Democracy Project
  • $2,250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Formed by lawyers who served at the highest levels of the federal government, the Protect Democracy Project works to inform Americans of specific threats to their right to free, fair, and fully-informed self-government.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Mar 2026

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Field Foundation of Illinois Inc.
  • $225,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Chicago Media and Storytelling Program at the Field Foundation supports pivotal investments to increase the production of news and innovative content that is by, for, and about African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American (ALAANA) communities and helps create a more inclusive, accurate, and comprehensive narrative of Chicago.

Project:

Chicago Media and Storytelling Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc.
  • $375,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Black Migrant Power Fund, a community-led fund housed at Neo Philanthropy Inc.’s Four Freedoms Fund, supports Black-led, grassroots organizations addressing the urgent needs of Black migrant communities and building power with and for Black migrants in the US.

Project:

Black Migrant Power Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • The Horizon Forum
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The Horizon Forum, a fiscally sponsored project of Proteus Fund, works to identify best practices, explore case studies, and develop solutions to address the problem of racist, dangerous, and xenophobic activity being funded through the philanthropic sector.

Project:

The Horizon Forum

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Borealis Philanthropy
  • $700,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Racial Equity in Journalism Fund (REJ) seeks to strengthen a future where communities of color are powerful. They do this by nourishing and building up the capacity and sustainability of both news organizations and journalism ecosystem partners led by people of color.

Project:

Racial Equity in Journalism Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc., dba Texas Civil Rights Project
  • $450,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

Oficina Legal Del Pueblo Unido Inc., dba Texas Civil Rights Project protects the civil rights of Texans through their work on economic justice, voting rights, and criminal justice.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Democracy 21 Education Fund
  • $350,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

The Democracy Legal Strike Force project at Democracy 21 Education Fund provides rapid-response legal work with the objective of protecting the system of democratically elected representative government, challenging anti-democracy efforts, and advancing the foundational American principle that no one is above the law.

Project:

Democracy Legal Strike Force Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Democratizing Philanthropy Project
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

The #PowerProgress campaign is a unique collaboration between philanthropy, nonprofits, and the Democratizing Philanthropy Project that is part program, part capacity building, and part public awareness. The campaign will support dozens of historically excluded frontline organizations working in their communities on critical issues.

Project:

Support for #PowerProgress

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
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