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.
- Institute for Social Policy and Understanding
- $500,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2019
The purpose of this grant is to provide general operating support for the Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU) as it conducts research, raises awareness, and works with partners to enable more understanding of the American Muslim community.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Sep 2019 to Aug 2023Strategy:
General- Openthegovernment.org
- $500,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2019
Open the Government, a fiscally sponsored project of the Fund for Constitutional Government, strengthens its partners in the field by training organizations and individuals on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and other tools for government openness, serves as a network hub for the government transparency community, and conducts its own research into government wrongdoing.
Project:
Support for Open the GovernmentFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Sep 2019 to Aug 2022Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- Hope CommUnity Center, Inc.
- $500,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
The Hope CommUnity Center in Apopka, Florida fosters diverse, empowered, learning communities engaged in personal and societal transformation. Through service and advocacy, they stand with immigrants and others who are tenacious and courageous in the face of all systems of oppression.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic IntegrationGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2025Strategy:
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- Free Press
- $500,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2020
The Free Press News Voices develops and implements community engagement strategies for journalism that build and sustain information equity and local reporting. These strategies help to create news sources that reflect and represent the communities they serve, in particular people of color who have been neglected and harmed by systemic racism.
Project:
News Voices ProgramFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Dec 2020 to Nov 2022Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc.
- $500,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2019
General operating support
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Nov 2019 to Oct 2022Strategy:
Ecosystem News- National Conference of State Legislatures
- $500,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2020
The National Conference of State Legislatures’ Elections and Redistricting Program is promoting effective policymaking around elections and redistricting by providing accurate and bipartisan information and research on elections administration to state legislators, legislative staff, and election officials.
Project:
Elections & Redistricting Program SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Oct 2020 to Dec 2023Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- New York University
- $500,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
The Center for Critical Race and Digital Studies (CR+DS) is a network of prominent, public scholars of color who produce research, distribute knowledge, and convene stakeholders at the intersections of race and technology.
Project:
NYU Center for Critical Race and Digital StudiesFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2026Strategy:
Civil & Human Rights Online- NEO Philanthropy Inc.
- $500,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2023
The State Infrastructure Fund (SIF), a collaborative fund of NEO Philanthropy, works to protect and advance the voting rights of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) and other historically underrepresented communities.
Project:
State Infrastructure Fund Voting Rights CollaborativeFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2025Strategy:
Voting Power- American Press Institute
- $500,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2015
The purpose of this general support grant is to continue to develop the research led innovation approach API has used in its work on fact checking and extend this support for other API projects that help support local media ecosystems.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Dec 2015 to Dec 2017Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- First Draft News
- $500,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2019
To support First Draft News, a fiscally sponsored project of The Lenfest Institute for Journalism, in designing training programs at news outlets across the United States in resilience building and collaboration to provide ongoing support for journalists, technologists, and the public as they navigate the challenges of mis/disinformation.
Project:
Mis/disinformation TrainingsFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Nov 2019 to Apr 2021Strategy:
General- Center for Technology and Civic Life
- $500,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2017
Provide two years of general operating support to The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL). CTCL will continue to focus on three areas: training local governments to utilize technology to enhance civic livelihood in their communities, develop low to no cost tools for governmental use, help develop infrastructure allowing the capture of data and information during interactions between citizens and government.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Aug 2017 to Jul 2019Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Faith and Politics Institute
- $500,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2014
The Faith & Politics Institute will work in a variety of ways to bring members of congress and their staffs together to build better, stronger and lasting relationships through meetings and transformative pilgrimages.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch PerformanceGrant Length:
Jul 2014 to Jul 2016Strategy:
Constructive Politics- Faith and Politics Institute
- $500,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2016
The Faith & Politics Institute works in a variety of ways to bring members of Congress and their staffs together to build better, stronger and lasting relationships through private reflection groups, public meetings and transformative pilgrimages.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Aug 2016 to Jul 2018Strategy:
Constructive Politics- American University
- $500,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2017
This grant is to support investigative reporting. It is part of a larger package of grants around investigative journalism that is meant to expand the critical capacity of nonprofit investigative journalism as a robust fourth estate. The grant will empower those newsrooms to pursue rigorous journalism that keeps the government accountable to the American people.
Project:
Investigative Reporting WorkshopFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Apr 2017 to Mar 2019Strategy:
Investigative Journalism- Democracy Works Inc.
- $500,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2013
TurboVote looks for low-cost ways to increase civic engagement and voting.
Project:
TurboVoteFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Dec 2013 to Dec 2015Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Immigrant Legal Resource Center
- $500,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2017
The purpose of this grant is to provide support for the New Americans Campaign (NAC), which will in turn support multilingual hotlines to advise and assist eligible legal permanent residents (LPR) in becoming U.S. citizens. The grant will also support the NAC’s Innovation Fund, including resources to help NAC partners to move more people along the path to becoming citizens.
Project:
New Americans Campaign Outreach, Innovation, and ServicesFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Dec 2017 to Nov 2018Strategy:
General- University of Arizona Foundation
- $500,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2014
For general support to National Institute for Civic Discourse to encourage political and civic leaders to embrace vigorous debate in a way that allows for diverse perspectives to be shared, for complex issues to be discussed thoughtfully, and for challenging topics to be explored without resorting to invective and personal attacks.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch Performance, GovernmentGrant Length:
Feb 2014 to Mar 2016Strategy:
Previous Strategy- President and Fellows of Harvard College
- $500,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2017
This grant will support the Defending Digital Democracy Project at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs.
Project:
Defending Digital Democracy (D3P) projectFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Nov 2017 to Oct 2019Strategy:
Trust in Elections- Proteus Fund Inc.
- $500,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2013
The Collaborative Communications Initiative will improve the communications capacity of the campaign finance reform community.