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
  • Native American Journalists Association
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Native American Journalists Association supports their members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while holding the media accountable in their portrayals of Native American and Indigenous communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • 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 Government

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

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 2076

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Piece By Piece Strategies, LLC
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Piece by Piece (PxP) supports the community of practice for Ecosystem Builders, a network of leaders in the local news space, including distributing funding to some participants to expand and sustain their work.

Project:

Ecosystem Builders Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jun 2023 to May 2024

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Public Rights Project
  • $350,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

Public Rights Project’s Voting Rights and State Abuse of Power program is a rapid response litigation hub supporting a corps of 200 election officials across 12+ states. They provide training, technical assistance and legal backup to election administrators to enable them to quickly and effectively respond to election threats.

Project:

Voting Rights and State Abuse of Power Program Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Rockefeller Family Fund Inc
  • $600,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Democracy & Power Innovation Fund (DPI Fund), hosted at the Rockefeller Family Fund, is a community of state-based organizing groups, social science researchers, and aligned funders who have come together to support learning and innovative programs that explore the connections between organizing, civic engagement, and building progressive power.

Project:

Democracy & Power Innovation Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

General
  • State Leadership Project
  • $750,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

State Leadership Project’s Thunderbolt—Democracy Dream Team is a collaboration effort to engage new funders to expand funding for the pro-democracy and non-partisan civic engagement fields.

Project:

Thunderbolt — Democracy Dream Team collaboration

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

General
  • State Leadership Project
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

State Leadership Project (SLP) is 501(c)(3) nonprofit focused on resourcing nonpartisan efforts to grow a sustainable civic ecosystem. They cultivate donor communities to fund and build the state infrastructure needed to ensure free and fair elections, combat mis and disinformation, register and educate voters, and support policies that will help achieve a multiracial democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Jul 2023 to Jun 2025

Strategy:

General
  • State Power Fund
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The State Power Accelerator is an innovative strategy focused on the development of independent resource generation for social justice organizations. This project is the result of four years of research, convenings, and case studies commissioned by a set of funders including the Solidago Foundation and the Amalgamated Foundation.

Project:

State Power Accelerator

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • States United Democracy Center Inc
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The States United Democracy Center is a nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to free, fair, and secure elections. They support state and local officials by providing the resources and expertise they need to run and defend our elections, keep elections safe, and make sure the will of the people is respected.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • 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 Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Jan 2025

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, 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
  • 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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2023 to Aug 2026

Strategy:

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.

Project:

CEIP Climate Migration

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Center for American Progress
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2023

The Democracy & Elections Program at the Center for American Progress explores ways to improve our democracy and increase fairness in representation through structural changes including electoral system reform.

Project:

Democracy & Elections Program

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • New Jersey Civic Information Consortium
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The New Jersey Civic Information Consortium is an independent, 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization that funds initiatives to benefit the State’s civic life and meet the evolving information needs of New Jersey’s communities. The Consortium reimagines how public funding can be used to address the growing problem of news deserts, misinformation, and support more informed communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Union of Concerned Scientists Inc.
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2023

The Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS) works to strengthen the role of science within the federal civil service sector. They will develop recommendations for better hiring practices, science program leadership, and performance accountability within the federal government to help it better serve the public interest.

Project:

Center for Science and Democracy

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
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