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.
- The Miami Foundation Inc.
- $1,000,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
The purpose of this grant is to grow and continue The Fund for Nonprofit News, hosted at The Miami Foundation, in support of NewsMatch, a fundraising campaign for nonprofit news.
Project:
Fund for Nonprofit News - NewsMatchFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Nov 2026Strategy:
News & Information Ecosystems- Campaign For Accountability Inc.
- $200,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2023
Campaign for Accountability (CfA) is a 501(c)(3) nonpartisan, nonprofit watchdog organization that uses research, litigation, and aggressive communications to expose misconduct and malfeasance in public life.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2025Strategy:
Civil & Human Rights Online- NEO Philanthropy Inc.
- $500,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2023
The State Infrastructure Fund (SIF), a collaborative fund of NEO Philanthropy, works to protect and advance the voting rights of Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) and other historically underrepresented communities.
Project:
State Infrastructure Fund Voting Rights CollaborativeFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2025Strategy:
Voting Power- BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund
- $300,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2023
A fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc., BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund’s Spark Accelerator program provides funding, training, and other resources to organizers, founders, startup nonprofit organizations, and existing grassroots organizing and social justice advocacy groups working in under-resourced communities.
Project:
BRIDGE Infrastructure FundFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Aug 2023 to Jul 2025Strategy:
Voting Power- Keep Our Republic Charitable Fund
- $300,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2023
Keep Our Republic is a non-partisan civic education organization dedicated to protecting a republic of laws and strengthening the checks and balances of our democratic electoral system. We aim to discover, highlight, and help prevent an array of extraordinary threats to American democracy, strengthen democratic guardrails, and educate the public before it is too late.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Mar 2025Strategy:
Resilient Elections- Action Center on Race and the Economy Institute
- $800,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2023
The Action Center on Race and the Economy supports racial, economic, and environmental justice organizations with strategic planning and advocacy coordination on political campaigns. The Action Center also leads campaigns to spotlight the political influence that corporate and financial profiteers wield as they erode the basic racial and economic rights of communities of color.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2025Strategy:
Equitable Civic Infrastructure- Women's Democracy Lab
- $115,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2023
Women’s Democracy Lab, a fiscally sponsored project of Panorama Global, radically reimagines what democracy looks like when Indigenous women and women of color are supported and can thrive in elected office. Their work illuminates challenges and experiments with solutions, aiming to rebuild political institutions in an inclusive and equitable model, and ensuring that they protect, support, and nurture Indigenous women and women of color in elected office.
Project:
Women's Democracy LabFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, GovernmentGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2024Strategy:
Representative Leadership- William J. Brennan, Jr. Center for Justice, Inc.
- $350,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2023
The Brennan Center’s Emergency Powers Project works to fix the legal framework for emergency powers by bolstering checks on the use of emergency powers through legal research, developing reforms that limit emergency powers, and educating the public about specific emergency powers, such as the Insurrection Act, which delegates a dangerous amount of discretion to the president.
Project:
Emergency Powers ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2025Strategy:
Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power- University of Chicago
- $150,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2023
The Democracy Reform Primers series, a project of the Center for Effective Government at the University of Chicago, provides unbiased remarks by trusted voices on problems and possible solutions to democratic issues. Each Primer focuses on a particular reform, clarifies its intended purposes, and then critically evaluates what the most compelling research has to say about it.
Project:
The Center for Effective GovernmentFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Government, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Redistricting, Government/Judicial Selection and Performance, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access, Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2024Strategy:
Representative Institutions- William J. Brennan, Jr. Center for Justice, Inc.
- $200,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2023
The Governance and Judiciary project is part of the Brennan Center’s Democracy Program. This project focuses on the erosion of confidence in democratic institutions; specifically, long-established guardrails that have protected the rule of law and the integrity of federal and state policy making, and the increasing hostility of federal courts to protecting civil and democratic rights.
Project:
Governance and Judiciary projectFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government, Government/Judicial Selection and PerformanceGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2024Strategy:
State and Local Accountability- Values United d/b/a Whistleblower Aid
- $200,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2023
Whistleblower Aid’s mission is to report and fix government and corporate lawbreaking — without breaking the law. Their lawyers help clients to stay safe while making impactful disclosures that change policies, because should have to risk their career or their freedom to follow their conscience.
Project:
Whistleblower AidFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2024Strategy:
Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power- Center for Secure and Modern Elections
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2023
The Institute for Responsive Government at the Center for Secure and Modern Elections, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, is a public policy hub of policy experts, fellows, and advisory board members to drive research, policy recommendations, press engagement, and more.
Project:
Institute for Responsive GovernmentFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2024Strategy:
Resilient Elections- Constitutional Accountability Center
- $400,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2023
Constitutional Accountability Center (CAC) is a think tank, law firm, and action center dedicated to fulfilling the progressive promise of the Constitution’s text and history. They work in the courts, government, and with legal scholars to preserve the rights of all in America and to protect the judiciary from politics.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2025Strategy:
Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power- Inner-City Muslim Action Network
- $400,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
Inner-City Muslim Action Network (IMAN) was established with the goal of addressing structural and systemic injustices in inner-city communities by employing integrative holistic interventions. These include support services in: healthcare, ReEntry, arts access, community engagement and safety as well as inter-generational organizing and advocacy.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Other, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2026Strategy:
Power Building in Marginalized Communities- Democracy 2076
- $100,000.00
- Project
- General and Field Building
- 2023
Democracy 2076, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc., is convening organizers, state legislators, those running campaigns to amend the US Constitution, and legal scholars to envision what a Constitution for 2076 needs to include to ensure an effective, responsive, and representative democracy.
Project:
Democracy 2076Foundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2024Strategy:
General- The Miami Foundation Inc.
- $400,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
The Legal Clinic Fund, a joint fund housed at The Miami Foundation, makes grants to university legal clinics to expand their capacity as critical First Amendment advocates and resources for legal support for local newsrooms around the country.
Project:
The Legal Clinic FundFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Jan 2025Strategy:
News & Information Ecosystems- Partnership for Public Service Inc.
- $450,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2023
The Partnership for Public Service, believes that the future and democracy depend on our ability to solve big problems—and that an effective federal government is needed to do so. They serve as a bridge between administrations, across the political aisle, and from the public to the private sector to develop forward-thinking solutions that improve the way the government works.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2024Strategy:
Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power- Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project Inc
- $375,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
The Asylum Seeker Advocacy Project (ASAP) believes that asylum seekers can make great change by standing together. They provide their membership of asylum seekers with legal and community support.
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 2026Strategy:
Power Building in Marginalized Communities- Pillars Fund
- $600,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
Pillars Fund supports Muslim organizations and leaders who advance social good. They invest in community-focused initiatives, push back against harmful narratives, uplift Muslim stories, and give collectively to generate resources within Muslim communities for Muslim communities.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation, OtherGrant Length:
Sep 2023 to Aug 2026Strategy:
Power Building in Marginalized Communities- Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2023
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (CEIP) is conducting a major research project that aims to answer key questions about the causes, perceptions, and realities of climate migration.