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
  • POPVOX Foundation
  • $50,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • President's Office
  • 2023

POPVOX Foundation works to inform and empower people and make government work better for everyone. This includes reimagining the concept of “civic infrastructure,” and providing new ways for government to share information and engage the public, with an emphasis on diverse participation and rebuilding public trust.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Refugees International
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Refugee Advocacy Lab is an initiative hosted at Refugees International and co-founded with the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), International Rescue Committee (IRC), and Refugee Congress. They support the advocacy community by developing strategic communications resources, championing inclusive policies, and building capacity for the field.

Project:

Refugee Advocacy Lab

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • National Immigration Law Center
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is one of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Center for Community Change
  • $80,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2023

Our Victory Story is a narrative project by Center for Community Change that articulates the positive role government can play in improving the material lives of people as well as protecting the civil and human rights of all people.

Project:

Our Victory Story

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Government

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Detroit Narrative Agency
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2023

Detroit Narrative Agency (DNA), a fiscally sponsored project of Allied Media Projects, is a community organization that disrupts harmful narratives about Detroit. They do this by supporting Black, Indigenous, People of Color Detroiters to explore and create media storytelling projects that build collective healing, power and liberation.

Project:

Detroit Narrative Agency

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Trusted Elections Fund
  • $3,000,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The Trusted Elections Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, is a pooled donor fund with a portfolio of democracy-related investments. The Trusted Elections Fund undertakes efforts to help prepare U.S. institutions for the possibility of challenges to free and fair elections.

Project:

Project Support for the Trusted Elections Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2025

Strategy:

General
  • The Miami Foundation Inc.
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Press Forward pooled fund, a collaborative vehicle housed at The Miami Foundation, will support local news around the country. Press Forward seeks to reverse the dramatic decline in local news that has coincided with an increasingly divided America and weakening trust in institutions.

Project:

Press Forward Pooled Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Democracy Works Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

Democracy Works is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization that collaborates with election officials, leading tech platforms, and world-class partners to drive voter access and participation. They create tools, technology, and data to protect and power our democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Jul 2023 to Jun 2024

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Oklahoma Media Center
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Oklahoma Media Center (OMC) supports and strengthens Oklahoma’s local journalism ecosystem. A nonpartisan 501(c)(3), OMC includes over 25 news outlets, ranging from broadcast to nonprofit to Indigenous and Black-owned media outlets to longstanding newspapers. They provide funding, best-practices training to elevate the industry, and collaborative support for local newsrooms.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jul 2023 to Jun 2026

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • University of Maryland
  • $411,800.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The University of Maryland Center for Democracy and Civic Engagement (CDCE) is creating an Election Talent Study Group to address the growing recruitment and retention crisis in election administration.

Project:

Election Talent Study Group

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Jun 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • The Brookings Institution
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2023

Lawfare is a publication and media network at the Brookings Institution’s Governance Studies Program. Lawfare facilitates research and robust analysis of national security issues, and Lawfare experts also use FOIA to uncover information that will help foster objective, public, and transparent discussions around government decision-making.

Project:

Lawfare

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Voter Registration Project
  • $973,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • President's Office
  • 2023

Voter Registration Project’s (VRP) works to create a more representative democracy by narrowing the registration gap between Black, Indigenous, LatinX, Hispanic, Asian-American, and Pacific Islander voters and white voters. VRP funds and coordinates non-partisan voter registration efforts and works with in-state, community-based organizations and 501(c)(3) civic engagement tables.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Mar 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Ayni Institute Inc
  • $800,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Ayni Institute is a movement training center run, led, and rooted in the immigrant experience, community organizing, and indigenous wisdom that seeks to build the necessary capacity to win social change. They support social movements, leaders, and institutions in increasing their strategic and organizational capacity.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2026

Strategy:

General
  • University of Wisconsin Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2023

The State Democracy Research Initiative fosters research and dialogue on state-level democracy, government, and public law across the nation. They produce and promote original academic research and bring together academics, judges, policymakers, and advocates to exchange insights and perspectives on matters related to democracy and the rule of law in the states.

Project:

State Democracy Research Initiative Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Neighborly Faith Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Neighborly Faith (NF) brings pluralism education to Evangelical college students with little first-hand experience with it, limited appreciation for it, and who other organizations cannot reach. Nearly all Evangelical faith leaders (lay and professional) attend Evangelical colleges at some point in their lives. Very few of these colleges talk about pluralism. NF is changing this.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

General
  • National Partnership for New Americans
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Climate Justice Collaborative at the National Partnership for New Americans builds the capacity of affiliated immigrant grassroots organizations to engage in climate justice work in their communities, and impact national narratives around climate migration.

Project:

Climate Justice Collaborative

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • One America Movement
  • $85,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

One America Movement provides leadership development for leaders of congregations and faith communities to promote pluralism, fight toxic polarization, and advocate for an inclusive American identity.

Project:

One America Movement

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Center for Civic Design
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The Center for Civid Design applies design thinking to how elections invite participation in the democratic process. They support election officials in making materials and processes clear, easy, and effective by researching the needs of voters for access, information, and opportunity to vote.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Shoulder to Shoulder
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Shoulder to Shoulder, a fiscally sponsored project of The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, connects, equips, and mobilizes faith communities in the U.S. as strategic partners in countering, addressing, and preventing anti-Muslim hatred, discrimination, and violence. Part of this grant will build Shoulder to Shoulder’s fundraising and communications capacity.

Project:

Shoulder to Shoulder

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation

Grant Length:

Sep 2023 to Aug 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Wayne State University
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2023

The Levin Center at Wayne State University works to build capacity in legislative bodies at all levels — federal, state, and abroad — to expose public and private sector abuses, ensure effective governance, and bring critical facts to light for the benefit of all.

Project:

Levin Center at Wayne Law

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

State and Local Accountability
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