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.
- The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2022
The National Center on Race and Digital Justice works on informing legislation, building strong networks of coordinated work, collaborating with grassroots organizers, conducting academic and legal research, curating public lectures, and supporting new thinkers and leaders.
Project:
The National Center on Race and Digital JusticeFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Oct 2022 to Mar 2024Strategy:
Equitable Civic Infrastructure- Center for Community Change
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
Community Change is responding to the migrant bussing crisis. They coordinate with immigrant rights groups across the country that are receiving buses, and make connections between immigrant rights groups and other economic justice groups. They also build the grassroots field’s capacity to respond, and explore strategies to build long-term power from the rapid-response situation.
Project:
Building Capacity of Immigrant Rights OrganizationsFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Dec 2022 to Nov 2023Strategy:
Power Building in Marginalized Communities- The Roosevelt Institute
- $50,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
The Roosevelt Institute’s Fellowship is conducting research on climate migration and migrant integration issues. Climate migration is an emergent megatrend that is reshaping our culture, economy, and politics in profound ways. This research contributes to the ongoing discussion and to more just outcomes for migrants, refugees, and all marginalized people.
Project:
Roosevelt FellowshipFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, OtherGrant Length:
Oct 2022 to Jun 2023Strategy:
Power Building in Marginalized Communities- Action Center on Race and the Economy Institute
- $200,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2022
ACRE Institute was founded in 2017, when policies were implemented that disproportionately benefited financial institutions, while harming Black and Brown communities. ACRE Institute’s leadership brings deep experience researching, organizing, and campaigning around Wall Street accountability issues following the 2008 financial crisis.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Jul 2022 to Jun 2023Strategy:
Digital Democracy- Ethnic Media Services
- $75,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2022
Ethnic Media Services, a fiscally sponsored project of San Francisco Study Center Inc., will expand the visibility and impact of its weekly online national news briefings. These help ethnic media reporters produce coverage of global, national and regional events relevant to their audiences.
Project:
Ethnic Media ServicesFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Jun 2022 to May 2023Strategy:
Digital Democracy- ACCESS
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
The National Network for Arab American Communities, an institution of ACCESS, builds the capacity of Arab American community organizations. NNAAC’s capacity building program helps its member organizations through trainings, technical assistance, workshops, convenings, and peer-to-peer learnings.
Project:
National Network for Arab American CommunitiesFoundation 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 IntegrationGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
Power Building in Marginalized Communities- El-Hibri Foundation
- $200,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
The El-Hibri Foundation (EHF) is a philanthropic organization that empowers and equips Muslim leaders and their allies to build thriving, inclusive communities. EHF has provided capacity building trainings and programs through their Collective Action Leadership Incubator (CALI) for over six years to leaders from American Muslim and ally communities who are collectively seeking to advance inclusion and promote pluralism in society.
Project:
Capacity Building ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Dec 2023Strategy:
Power Building in Marginalized Communities- Human Rights First
- $150,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI), a project of Human Rights First, is a coalition of veterans and allies who continue their service to America by upholding, defending, and advocating for human rights at home and abroad.
Project:
Veterans for American Ideals (VFAI)Foundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, OtherGrant Length:
Oct 2022 to Sep 2023Strategy:
General- Trusted Elections Fund
- $1,500,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2022
The Trusted Elections Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, is a pooled donor fund with a portfolio of democracy-related investments. The Trusted Elections Fund undertakes efforts to help prepare U.S. institutions for the possibility of challenges to free and fair elections.
Project:
Trusted Elections Fund 2022-23Foundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Government, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access, Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
May 2022 to Dec 2023Strategy:
General- Government Accountability Project Inc
- $350,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2022
Government Accountability Project’s mission is to promote corporate and government accountability by protecting whistleblowers, advancing occupational free speech, and empowering citizen activists.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Jun 2022 to May 2024Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- Participatory Budgeting Project Inc.
- $100,000.00
- General Operating Support
- President's Office
- 2022
The Participatory Budgeting Project (PBP) works with communities across the US and Canada to decide together how to best spend public money. They create and support participatory budgeting (PB) processes that deepen democracy, build stronger communities, and make public budgets more equitable and effective.
Project:
Participatory Budgeting General Operating Renewal 2022Foundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Dec 2022 to Nov 2023Strategy:
General- Northeastern University
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2022
The Center for Communication, Media Innovation & Social Change at Northeastern University explores the intersection of media and communication with race, gender, power and media advocacy/social activism.
Project:
Northeastern Center for Communications, Media Innovation and Social ChangeFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Oct 2022 to Jul 2024Strategy:
Equitable Civic Infrastructure- Native American Journalists Association
- $150,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2022
The Native American Journalists Association supports their members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while holding the media accountable in their portrayals of Native American and Indigenous communities.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Jun 2022 to Nov 2023Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- The Project on Government Oversight, Inc.
- $1,750,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2022
The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, failures by the government to serve the public, or efforts to silence those who report wrongdoing.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Jul 2022 to Jun 2024Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- People's Parity Project
- $100,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2022
The People’s Parity Project is a nationwide network of law students and new attorneys organizing to unrig the legal system and build a justice system that values people over profits.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Judicial Selection and PerformanceGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power- Outlier Media
- $215,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2022
Outlier Media is a Detroit-based nonprofit news organization. They identify, report, and deliver valuable information to empower residents to hold landlords, municipal government, and elected officials accountable for long-standing problems.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Oct 2022 to Sep 2023Strategy:
News & Information Ecosystems- Democracy North Carolina
- $75,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2022
Democracy North Carolina (DemNC) works to strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Future Currents
- $500,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2022
The Social and Economic Justice Leaders Planning Group, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, provides research, scenario-planning methodologies, and strategy-design processes to grassroots organizations and movement leaders to help them achieve their goals for a vibrant, reparative democracy.
Project:
Social and Economic Justice LeadersFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
General- William J. Brennan, Jr. Center for Justice, Inc.
- $200,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2022
The Governance and Judiciary project is part of the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program. This project focuses on the erosion of confidence in democratic institutions; specifically, long-established guardrails that have protected the rule of law and the integrity of federal and state policy making, and the increasing hostility of federal courts to protecting civil and democratic rights.
Project:
Governance and Judiciary projectFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government, Government/Judicial Selection and PerformanceGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power- Check My Ads Institute
- $515,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2022
Check My Ads Institute is an independent watchdog reshaping the digital adtech industry from within its ranks — and building a new sustainable standard in digital advertising.