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.
- Democracy Revival Center
- $300,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2023
The Democracy Revival Center, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center, will bring a generation of social and economic justice leaders, working across issue silos, into the long-term fight to transform political and governing institutions—and lay the groundwork for them to succeed.
Project:
Democracy Revival CenterFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Redistricting, Government/Judicial Selection and Performance, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2024Strategy:
Representative Institutions- Local Solutions Support Center
- $200,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2023
Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC), a project of the New Venture Fund, is a national hub that connects, coordinates, and creates efforts to both counter the increasing misuse of preemption, and to strengthen local democracy. Preemption is when higher levels of government restricts the authority of a lower level of government to act on a particular issue.
Project:
Local Solutions Support CenterFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of LawGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2024Strategy:
State and Local Accountability- Local Independent Online News Publishers Inc.
- $600,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2023
LION Publishers strengthens the local news industry by helping independent news publishers build more sustainable businesses. They provide teaching, resources, and community to independent news entrepreneurs.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2026Strategy:
News & Information Ecosystems- Open News
- $420,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
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:
OpenNewsFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2025Strategy:
Journalism & Power Building- Kairos Fellowship Inc.
- $1,050,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2023
Kairos works toward an inclusive, multi-racial democracy by changing how pro-justice organizations see, use, and imagine the future of the internet. Kairos recognizes that understanding the internet as a place, and reshaping governance of the internet as a public square, are essential to strengthening democracy and building a healthier digital media ecosystem.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Sep 2026Strategy:
Civil & Human Rights Online- Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Inc.
- $50,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2023
In partnership with Protect Democracy, Democracy Journal’s Fall 2023 symposium on proportional representation will commission research by a diverse set of leading experts interrogating various dimensions of the topic, ranging from Proportional Representation and its implications for gerrymandering to the potential ramifications for racial representation.
Project:
Symposium On Proportional RepresentationFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Media/Journalism, Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Redistricting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Apr 2024Strategy:
Representative Institutions- Equality State News Fund
- $90,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
Equality State News Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of Wyoming Community Foundation, supports trustworthy, equitable and solutions-focused people, projects and organizations that contribute to a vibrant media ecosystem that helps Wyoming residents and communities to thrive.
Project:
Equality State News FundFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Apr 2025Strategy:
News & Information Ecosystems- Foundation for City College
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
The Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice is a leadership development initiative housed within the City University of New York to harness the potential of leaders of color working in the democracy reform and social justice sectors.
Project:
Leadership Center for Democracy and Social JusticeFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Sep 2024Strategy:
General- President and Fellows of Harvard College
- $300,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
Tthe Practicing Democracy Project at Harvard Kennedy School of Government believes that equipping people with the collective capacity to contest political, economic, and cultural power — that is, by enabling organization — people can realize the promises of democracy. The project will establish an endowed program in democratic organizing at Harvard University.
Project:
Practicing Democracy ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2026Strategy:
General- 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- Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing
- $300,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
The Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) , a fiscally sponsored project of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, is a dynamic collective of social justice funders and youth organizing practitioners dedicated to advancing youth organizing as a strategy for youth development and social change.
Project:
Funders' Collaborative on Youth OrganizingFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2024Strategy:
General- Faith in Action Network
- $250,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
Faith in Action Network uses organizing to address economic oppression, racism and discrimination. They work to build a society in which everyone lives in a safe and healthy environment, is respected and included, and has agency over the decisions that shape their lives.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Oct 2024Strategy:
General- People's Action Institute
- $1,810,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
People’s Action Institute is a national network of 40 member-based, power-building organizations in 29 states with more than a million members and tens of thousands of national volunteers. They work to advance a long-term agenda for racial, economic and gender justice by investing in powerful state and local organizations and campaigns that win real change in people’s lives.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Oct 2026Strategy:
General- JustFund.Us
- $1,824,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2023
JustFund is a revolutionary nonprofit grantmaking solution that provides philanthropy with a new way to give through a B2B SaaS (business-to-business software-as-a-service) platform with growing B2C (business-to-consumer) offerings. JustFund eliminates bottlenecks and barriers to giving and centers equity in a traditionally inequitable process.
Project:
Building Power CohortFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2025Strategy:
Voting Power- Informing Democracy Education Fund
- $250,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2023
Informing Democracy brings together election professionals, researchers, and lawyers who are providing research and information about what happens in election administration after votes are cast. They are building a central repository of research and information about how votes are counted and elections are certified in order to protect the integrity of our elections.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Apr 2025Strategy:
Resilient Elections- ISRC Education Fund
- $400,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2023
The Independent Strategic Research Collaborative Education Fund (ISRC), a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, provides research, messaging development, and research and communications alignment to the pro-democracy movement. Their work includes facilitating convening spaces for leaders to share intel, strategy, messaging guidance, and calls to action.
Project:
ISRC Education FundFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, OtherGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Jan 2026Strategy:
Resilient Elections- Solutions Project Inc
- $2,250,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
The Solutions Project (TSP) funds and amplifies climate justice solutions created by grassroots organizations that are tackling the root causes of the climate crisis. TSP is an important force for building a more connected, visible, and solutions-oriented climate and migrant justice movement.
Project:
Climate and Migrant Justice ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2026Strategy:
Power Building in Marginalized Communities- Keseb
- $300,000.00
- Project
- General and Field Building
- 2023
Keseb, a fiscally sponsored project of the Fund for Constitutional Government, is a nonpartisan, pro-democracy nonprofit organization building transnational alliances between democracy activists and entrepreneurs to fight authoritarian ideology, demagogic political leaders, and xenophobic movements.
Project:
Support for KesebFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2025Strategy:
General- Hearken
- $325,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2023
The Election SOS project at Hearken, a fiscally sponsored project of Policy Impact, provides training, coaching, and capacity support to journalists for more engaged, trusted, and responsive elections coverage.
Project:
Election SOSFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to May 2025Strategy:
General- Stop Online Violence Against Women
- $425,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
Stop Online Violence Against Women Project (SOVAW), a fiscally sponsored project of Planetwork NGO, raises awareness and funding to stop online harassment. SOVAW addresses inadequate laws and policies that lack protections for women in particular women of color.