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.
- 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.
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Investing in Staff WellbeingFoundation Center Topic:
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Oct 2022 to Sep 2023Strategy:
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.
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Investing in Staff WellbeingFoundation Center Topic:
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Oct 2022 to Sep 2023Strategy:
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.
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Investing in Staff WellbeingFoundation Center Topic:
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Oct 2022 to Sep 2023Strategy:
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.
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Investing in Staff WellbeingFoundation Center Topic:
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Oct 2022 to Sep 2023Strategy:
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.
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22nd Century InitiativeFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2024Strategy:
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.
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Social and Economic Justice LeadersFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2024Strategy:
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.
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Tribal Broadband BootcampFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2025Strategy:
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.
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The Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public LifeFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Media, OtherGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2024Strategy:
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.
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General SupportFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2024Strategy:
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.
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General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, OtherGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2024Strategy:
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.
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Tracking and mitigating political violence in the USFoundation 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 ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Apr 2024Strategy:
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.
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General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance, OtherGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2026Strategy:
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.
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The 65 ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, OtherGrant Length:
Jul 2023 to Jun 2025Strategy:
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.
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Detroit Community Tech ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2026Strategy:
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.
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General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Aug 2023 to Jul 2025Strategy:
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.
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General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2026Strategy:
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.
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General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Aug 2023 to Jul 2025Strategy:
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.
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General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Aug 2023 to Jul 2025Strategy:
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.
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Granite State News CollaborativeFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2024Strategy:
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.