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.
- Reader Institute for Community Journalism Inc
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
The Chicago Independent Media Alliance project at the Reader Institute for Community Journalism works to create a self-sustaining media ecosystem in Chicago. The Chicago Independent Media Alliance project is a partnership of independent and local media entities collaborating on editorial and revenue-generating models.
Project:
Chicago Independent Media AllianceFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Aug 2023 to Feb 2024Strategy:
News & Information Ecosystems- The Equity Alliance
- $160,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2023
The Equity Alliance is the leading Black-led grassroots organization in Tennessee promoting intentional, unapologetic, innovative, and culturally relevant year-round civic engagement among Black communities, while providing their communities with the tools and knowledge they need to be self-determining and create sustainable change.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to May 2025Strategy:
Voting Power- The National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association
- $150,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2023
The National Association of LGBTQ Journalists is a journalist-led association working within the news media to advance fair and accurate coverage of LGBTQ+ communities and issues. They promote diverse and inclusive workplaces by holding the industry accountable and providing education, professional development and mentoring.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Jul 2023 to May 2025Strategy:
Journalism & Power Building- URL Media Holdings Inc
- $620,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
URL Media, a fiscally sponsored project of the Journalism Funding Partners, builds and supports a network of Black and Brown led newsrooms to harness their collective power and content for distribution, sustainability, and audience growth.
Project:
URL MediaFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Aug 2023 to Jul 2026Strategy:
Journalism & Power Building- We the Veterans Foundation
- $100,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
We the Veterans Foundation is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization created by veterans and military family members. They empower the veteran and military family community to strengthen American democracy.
Project:
We The VeteransFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2024Strategy:
General- Sightline Institute
- $350,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2023
Sightline Institute’s nonpartisan Democracy and Elections program advances solutions for Cascadia’s electoral systems, including stifling extreme partisanship through open primaries, allowing voters more freedom to express their preferences through ranked choice voting and proportional representation, and expanding and protecting voting access for all.
Project:
Program support for Democracy & Elections ProgramFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Dec 2025Strategy:
Representative Institutions- Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc. dba The Vance Center
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
Lawyers for Reporters, a project of the Vance Center, and in partnership with the Press Freedom Defense Fund, provides pro bono legal services to local and social mission-driven organizations in the United States.
Project:
Lawyers for ReportersFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2026Strategy:
News & Information Ecosystems- Narrative Initiative
- $200,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
Narrative Initiative, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, works with social movements and changemakers to envision and strategize for narrative change that embodies a movement’s aspirations.
Project:
Narrative InitiativeFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2024Strategy:
Power Building in Marginalized Communities- 100% Democracy
- $125,000.00
- Project
- General and Field Building
- 2023
100% Democracy, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, is an initiative dedicated to reimagining voting as both a fundamental right and a civic responsibility, with every eligible citizen required to participate in this most fundamental act of self-governance.
Project:
100% Democracy.Foundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2024Strategy:
General- The Independence Public Media Foundation
- $247,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
Independence Public Media Foundation’s Internet for All program makes grants to organizations working to expand community internet that is collectively owned and managed by local communities and strengthening community organizing for digital equity.
Project:
Independence Public Media FoundationFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Dec 2025Strategy:
Equitable Civic Infrastructure- Sojourners
- $275,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
Sojourners is an ecumenical Christian media and advocacy organization that works towards social and racial justice. Sojourners publishes an award-winning magazine, produces daily news and commentary on sojo.net, and mobilizes people of faith for social justice through its advocacy initiative SojoAction.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Media, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
May 2023 to Apr 2025Strategy:
General- Undivided, Inc
- $100,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
UNDIVIDED Inc. provides six-week LivingUNDIVIDED cohort experiences, where they invite participants to reckon with history, build solidarity across race and ethnicity, and commit to action to advance racial healing and justice in their communities.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, OtherGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2024Strategy:
General- Proteus Fund Inc.
- $1,350,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
The Rise Together Fund (RTF), a Proteus Fund initiative, supports a diverse field of organizations working to address anti-Muslim bigotry, xenophobia, and more. They build the capacity of Muslim, Arab and South Asian (MASA) community-based organizations and provide field coordination support to their grantees.
Project:
Rise Together FundFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Media, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
Sep 2023 to Aug 2026Strategy:
Power Building in Marginalized Communities- Translash Media Inc
- $300,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2023
Translash Media Inc., is a U.S-based and globally recognized Black, trans-led nonprofit news organization and digital community dedicated to telling trans stories to save trans lives. Using the power of journalism and personal narrative, TransLash creates, curates, and presents trans-affirming content, resources, and events in collaboration with their partners.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism, MediaGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Dec 2024Strategy:
Journalism & Power Building- Grassroots Asians Rising
- $535,100.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
Grassroots Asians Rising, a fiscally sponsored project of Chinese Progressive Association, is a national network of grassroots organizations rooted in working-class Asian communities. Their members support communities that live in the most precarious margins of power: refugees, low-wage workers, youth, undocumented immigrants, queer and trans people, and low-income tenants.
Project:
Grassroots Asians RisingFoundation 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 2026Strategy:
Power Building in Marginalized Communities- RepresentWomen Inc.
- $225,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2023
RepresentWomen, Inc. is committed to researching, understanding, and then championing the evidence-based solutions that break down structural barriers to women’s political leadership.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Sep 2023 to Aug 2025Strategy:
Representative Leadership- Media Democracy Fund
- $75,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
The Disinformation Defense League at Media Democracy Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund (NVF), is a distributed national network of organizers, researchers, and disinformation experts disrupting online racialized disinformation infrastructure and campaigns that target communities of color.
Project:
MDF Disinformation Defense LeagueFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2026Strategy:
Civil & Human Rights Online- Media Democracy Fund
- $302,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
NetGain at Media Democracy Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, supports philanthropic collaboration and leadership on issues of technology and society, and supports engagement of organizations led by and serving communities of color in debates around platforms, power, and the public interest.
Project:
MDF NetGainFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2026Strategy:
Civil & Human Rights Online- New York University
- $450,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
Cybersecurity for Democracy is researching and iterating on Ad Observer and the Ad Observatory, as well as exploring the creation of new tools to better help researchers, advocates, and journalists track digital disinformation.
Project:
Cybersecurity For DemocracyFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
May 2023 to May 2026Strategy:
Civil & Human Rights Online- National Partnership for New Americans
- $300,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
We Are All America (WAAA), a project of National Partnership for New Americans, works to uphold and strengthen our nation’s commitment to welcome and protect those seeking freedom, safety and refuge in the United States. WAAA organizes people across religious and cultural differences to build inclusive communities where we all belong.