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
  • The Equity Alliance
  • $175,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

The Equity Alliance is the leading Black-led grassroots organization in Tennessee promoting intentional, unapologetic, innovative, and culturally relevant year-round civic engagement among Black communities, while providing their communities with the tools and knowledge they need to be self-determining and create sustainable change.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • African American Federal Executives Association Incorporated
  • $50,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

The African American Federal Executives Association (AAFEA) is the leading non-profit organization dedicated to preparing and supporting African Americans for advancement into and within the senior ranks of the United States Government.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Representative Leadership
  • Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Dignity.US seeks to address the crisis of hate-fueled violence in America. Dignity.US is a citizens’ initiative to address the crisis of hate-fueled violence in America, led by a bipartisan collaborative of former Domestic Policy Council chairs from the Obama, Bush, and Trump Administrations.

Project:

Dignity.US

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Open News
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

OpenNews, a fiscally sponsored project of Community Partners, helps journalists create authentic, trusting relationships and to build a community of support. This grant supports their ongoing efforts to increase peer support and peer learning among the journalists they serve.

Project:

Open News

Foundation Center Topic:

Media

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Vote Early Day
  • $30,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2022

Vote Early Day, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center, is a nonpartisan movement of media companies, businesses, nonprofits, election administrators, and creatives working to ensure all Americans have the tools to vote early.

Project:

Vote Early Day 2022

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Dec 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Democracy Forward Foundation
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Democracy Forward Foundation is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that uses the law to build collective power and advance a bold, vibrant democracy for all people.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government/Judicial Selection and Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • FRIDA - The Young Feminist Fund
  • $530,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

FRIDA Young Feminist Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of the Tides Foundation, works to provide young feminist organizers with the resources they need to amplify their voices and bring attention to the social justice issues they care about. This grant is made by Democracy Fund in collaboration with the Rights and Dignity Working Group, a cross-Omidyar Group initiative.

Project:

FRIDA Young Feminist Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

Rights and Dignity
  • Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) believes that asylum seekers can make great change by standing together. They provide their membership of asylum seekers with legal and community support.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Values United d/b/a Whistleblower Aid
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Whistleblower Aid’s mission is to report and fix government and corporate lawbreaking — without breaking the law. Their lawyers help clients to stay safe while making impactful disclosures that change policies, because should have to risk their career or their freedom to follow their conscience.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Center for Constitutional Rights Inc
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Center for Constitutional Rights stands with social justice movements and communities under threat—fusing litigation, advocacy, and narrative shifting to dismantle systems of oppression regardless of the risk. They use creative and aggressive legal strategies against the most virulent forms of oppression to push the law to meet the demands of justice.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • OpenSecrets
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, OpenSecrets is the nation’s premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Their mission is to track the flow of money in American politics and provide the data and analysis to strengthen democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Demand Progress Education Fund
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Demand Progress Education Fund is a 501(c)(3) charitable organization. They work to protect an internet that affords the public the ability to communicate freely online, without unjust interference from corporations or governments.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government, Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to May 2024

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • POPVOX Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

POPVOX Foundation works to inform and empower people and make government work better for everyone. This includes reimagining the concept of “civic infrastructure,” and providing new ways for government to share information and engage the public, with an emphasis on diverse participation and rebuilding public trust.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Public Participation, Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

May 2022 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • Grassroots Asians Rising
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Grassroots Asians Rising, a fiscally sponsored project of Chinese Progressive Association, is a national network of grassroots organizations rooted in working-class Asian communities. Their members support communities that live in the most precarious margins of power: refugees, low-wage workers, youth, undocumented immigrants, queer and trans people, and low-income tenants.

Project:

Grassroots Asians Rising

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Voter Registration Project
  • $500,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Voter Registration Project’s (VRP) works to create a more representative democracy by narrowing the registration gap between Black, Indigenous, LatinX, Hispanic, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander voters and white voters. VRP funds and coordinates non-partisan voter registration efforts and works with in-state, community-based organizations and 501(c)(3) civic engagement tables.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Accelerate Change, Inc.
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

Civic Revolution aims to transform democracy to be more responsive and representative of all communities through a coalition of digital media organizations dedicated to catalyzing civic engagement for diverse audiences.

Project:

Civic Revolution

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

General
  • National Partnership for New Americans
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Climate Justice Collaborative at the National Partnership for New Americans builds the capacity of affiliated immigrant grassroots organizations to engage in climate justice work in their communities, and impact national narratives around climate migration.

Project:

Climate Justice Collaborative

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • National Partnership for New Americans
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

We Are All America (WAAA), a project of National Partnership for New Americans, works to uphold and strengthen our nation’s commitment to welcome and protect those seeking freedom, safety and refuge in the United States. WAAA organizes people across religious and cultural differences to build inclusive communities where we all belong.

Project:

We Are All America

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Constitutional Accountability Center
  • $175,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC) is a think tank, law firm, and action center dedicated to fulfilling the progressive promise of the Constitution’s text and history. They work in the courts, through government, and with legal scholars to preserve the rights and freedoms of all in America and to protect the judiciary from politics and special interests.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Center for Secure and Modern Elections
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

Center for Secure and Modern Elections (CSME), a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, advocates for a more efficient, accurate and secure election process. They support bipartisan proposals such as Automatic Voter Registration that saves valuable time for election officials, saves money for state governments, and ensures voters can participate in our democracy.

Project:

Center for Secure and Modern Elections

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
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