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
  • Santa Fe Community Foundation
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

The New Mexico Local News Fund at the Santa Fe Community Foundation is working to create a healthy news and information ecosystem that serves the news and information needs of all New Mexicans.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

The Ida B. Wells Society for Investigative Reporting, a project of University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, trains journalists from historically marginalized backgrounds in the critical field of data and investigative journalism.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism CUNY Foundation, Inc.
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

The mission of the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY is to prepare outstanding journalists to make a difference as they transform journalism. They train reporters to listen to and collaborate with communities, and to generate clear and compelling work that offers information and insight, holds the powerful accountable, and drives civic conversation.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Center for Media Justice
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

MediaJustice (formerly Center for Media Justice) is building a powerful grassroots movement for a more just and participatory media — fighting for racial, economic, and gender justice in a digital age.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • 22nd Century Initiative
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

22nd Century Initiative, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center, facilitates widespread opposition to authoritarian movements and ideas, and resources organizations and networks to build an enduring, reparative, people-powered democracy.

Project:

22nd Century Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Future Currents
  • $733,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

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 Leaders

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Institute for Local Self Reliance Inc
  • $325,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance is a national research and advocacy organization building local power to fight corporate control. The Tribal Broadband Bootcamp project builds Tribal capacity to take advantage of federal investment and coordination with states on new broadband networks.

Project:

Tribal Broadband Bootcamp

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • Georgetown University
  • $120,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

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 Life

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Media, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Faith Matters Network Collaborative
  • $110,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Center for Christianity and Public Life
  • $120,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Trustees of Princeton University
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Bridging Divides Initiative (BDI) is a non-partisan research initiative that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States. BDI supports efforts to grow and build local community resilience through elections and other periods of heightened risk, laying a foundation for longer-term work to bridge the divides we face as a nation.

Project:

Tracking and mitigating political violence in the US

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/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Apr 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund (CEPEF) is a movement capacity building organization that trains and develops new leaders of color and people of color led organizations, and grow the movement infrastructure, particularly around racial justice, organizing, and power building strategies.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2026

Strategy:

General
  • The 65 Project
  • $425,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The 65 Project, a fiscally sponsored project of Global Impact, works to protect democracy from the threat posed through abuse of the legal system by holding accountable the lawyers who bring meritless lawsuits seeking to overturn legitimate election results.

Project:

The 65 Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Other

Grant Length:

Jul 2023 to Jun 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Detroit Community Technology Project
  • $900,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Detroit Community Tech Project (DCTP), a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects Inc., uses and creates technology rooted in community needs that strengthens neighbors’ connection to each other, and to the planet.

Project:

Detroit Community Tech Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • National Security Archive Fund Inc
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2023

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/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Aug 2023 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Documented Ltd
  • $450,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Documented Ltd is a non-profit news site devoted solely to covering New York City’s immigrants and the policies that affect their lives. They break the cycle of extractive immigration reporting through listening to New York’s immigrant communities. Their insights inform Documented’s work to create journalism in response to their needs.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Robert C. Maynard Institute for Journalism Education
  • $400,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Maynard Institute was founded to promote diversity and antiracism in the news media through improved coverage, hiring and business practices. They challenge the systemic lack of diversity in the news industry through training, collaborations and convenings.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Aug 2023 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • International Women's Media Foundation
  • $400,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) is the only global organization built to serve the holistic needs of women and nonbinary journalists. They are a bold and inclusive organization that supports journalists where they are with awards, reporting opportunities, fellowships, grants, safety training and emergency aid.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Aug 2023 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Granite State News Collaborative
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Granite State News Collaborative was established to enable local news, community and educational partners to work together to ensure that all communities have access to trusted and ethically reported information on the issues and solutions that impact them most; newsrooms and content reflect our communities; and, they all continue serving the public well into the future.

Project:

Granite State News Collaborative

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Multicultural Media & Correspondents Association
  • $785,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Multicultural Media & Correspondents Association (MMCA) is a growing group of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) media stakeholders, advocates, and allies resolved to get more content, more ownership, more impact, and more control of our story and of where, when and how its told.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
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