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
  • Duke University
  • $120,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy project brings together local news researchers and others to collaborate on a journalism ecosystem funding model that explores how to fund healthy local news ecosystems.

Project:

DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy Journalism Funding Model Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Democratizing Philanthropy Project
  • $600,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The #PowerProgress campaign is a unique collaboration between philanthropy, nonprofits, and the Democratizing Philanthropy Project that is part program, part capacity building, and part public awareness. The campaign supports dozens of historically excluded frontline organizations working in their communities on critical issues.

Project:

#PowerProgress

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

General
  • City Bureau NFP
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

City Bureau NFP works with a part-time coordinator to support an informal collective of community news partners to develop a theory of change, definitions, public communication, future convenings and other structures to realize their shared vision for the future of local media.

Project:

Future of Local News Group

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Church World Service, Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Church World Service’s Refugee Organizing project includes grassroots organizing, power-building, and leadership development in refugee communities.

Project:

Refugee Organizing

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Borealis Philanthropy
  • $3,020,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Racial Equity in Journalism Fund (REJ) seeks to strengthen a future where communities of color are powerful. They do this by nourishing and building up the capacity and sustainability of both news organizations and journalism ecosystem partners led by people of color.

Project:

Racial Equity in Journalism Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2026

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • ACCESS
  • $350,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC), an institution of ACCESS, builds the capacity of Arab American community organizations. NNAAC’s capacity building program will help its member organizations though trainings, technical assistance, workshops, convenings, and peer-to-peer learnings.

Project:

National Network for Arab American Communities

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Media, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Other, Government/Budgeting, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Online News Association
  • $420,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Online News Association (ONA) works to build a stronger journalism field that serves an engaged and informed public. Their programs for digital journalists and related fields include professional development, community-building, shared learning, and more.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Aug 2023 to Nov 2025

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • George Washington University
  • $800,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The Multiracial Democracy Project, an initiative of The GWU Institute for Racial, Ethnic and Socioeconomic Equity, supports a racially diverse community of researchers in law, policy, and social science in developing their research, and connects them to civil rights organizations, democracy reform organizations, and policymakers to better inform policy debates.

Project:

The Multiracial Democracy Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Media/Journalism, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Media/Media Access and Policy, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Redistricting, Media, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Latino Community Fund Inc
  • $195,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

Latino Community Fund Georgia (LCF Georgia) supports Latinx-serving and Latinx-led nonprofit organizations that are advancing democracy, protecting and building community, and facilitating economic opportunities for all.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Apr 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • The Brookings Institution
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Brookings Institution is researching the impact of climate change and climate migration on American systems of democracy and governance.

Project:

Brookings Research: Climate Impact on Democracy

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2023 to Jan 2025

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Revolving Door Project
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2023

The Revolving Door Project, a fiscally sponsored project of The Good Nation Foundation Inc., scrutinizes executive branch appointees to ensure they use their office to serve the broad public interest, rather than to entrench corporate power or seek personal advancement.

Project:

Revolving Door Project (RDP)

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Trustees of Boston University
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2023

Boston University’s Faculty of Computing & Data Sciences’ Data & Democracy partnership with the MGGG Redistricting Lab conducts cutting-edge research modeling alternative election systems with modern mathematical and statistical tools, with a focus on single transferable vote elections, to help build a powerful resource hub for election reform.

Project:

Data & Democracy Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • Institute for Nonprofit News
  • $700,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Institute for Nonprofit News strengthens and supports more than 425 independent news organizations that are nonprofit, nonpartisan and dedicated to public service. From local news to reporting on global issues, members of the INN Network tell stories that otherwise would go untold – connecting communities, holding the powerful accountable and strengthening democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Dec 2026

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Native American Journalists Association
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Native American Journalists Association facilitates collaboration, professional development and joint training for current and future leaders of journalism affinity groups serving underrepresented communities.

Project:

Affinity Groups Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

May 2023 to Apr 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Marshall-Wythe School of Law Foundation
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The eBenchbook and Alliance of Students at the Polls (ASAP) projects of the Election Law Program, a joint project of William & Mary Marshall-Wythe School of Law and and the National Center on State Courts. eBenchbook builds state-specific resources to assist judges in resolving election disputes. ASAP works to deploy law students to improve public trust in elections.

Project:

Election Law State Courts Research and Law Student Pipeline

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Sep 2023 to Aug 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • International Refugee Assistance Project Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP) works for a more humane, efficient, and welcoming refugee and asylum processes in the United States by empowering displaced persons to use the law as a tool to claim their rights, through an aligned program of legal aid, impact litigation, and advocacy.

Project:

Project support to IRAP

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • El Tímpano
  • $450,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

El Tímpano, a fiscally sponsored project of Independent Arts & Media, works in collaboration with residents and community partners to create empowering, two-way channels of information that inform and engage the Bay Area’s Latino and Mayan immigrants.

Project:

El Tímpano

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Human Rights First
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

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:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
  • $1,160,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project (RDYR) is an independent nonprofit investigative reporting and research organization that advances public understanding of the unique risks that America’s rural youth face online. They convene stakeholders including researchers, journalists, technologists, parents, educators, religious leaders, and mental health providers.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Democracy North Carolina
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Apr 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
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