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
  • American Journalism Project
  • $2,000,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2021

The American Journalism Project makes transformative investments in civic news organizations, building a new public service media that is governed by, sustained by, and looks like the public it serves.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Free Press
  • $2,100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Free Press is a watchdog for media and technology policy. They conduct research and policy analysis, educate policymakers, the press and the public, pressure corporations, organize campaigns with grasstops and grassroots constituencies to hold decision-makers accountable, and lead winning coalitions.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • Solutions Project Inc
  • $2,250,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Solutions Project (TSP) funds and amplifies climate justice solutions created by grassroots organizations that are tackling the root causes of the climate crisis. TSP is an important force for building a more connected, visible, and solutions-oriented climate and migrant justice movement.

Project:

Climate and Migrant Justice Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2026

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Protect Democracy Project
  • $2,250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Formed by lawyers who served at the highest levels of the federal government, the Protect Democracy Project works to inform Americans of specific threats to their right to free, fair, and fully-informed self-government.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Mar 2026

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • The Project on Government Oversight, Inc.
  • $2,500,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2019

General operating support for the Project On Government Oversight. 

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Jun 2019 to May 2022

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • Pro Publica Inc.
  • $3,000,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2017

This grant is to support investigative reporting. It is part of a larger package of grants around investigative journalism that is meant to expand the critical capacity of nonprofit investigative journalism as a robust fourth estate. The grant will empower those newsrooms to pursue rigorous journalism that keeps the government accountable to the American people.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Apr 2017 to Mar 2019

Strategy:

Investigative Journalism
  • Center for Public Integrity
  • $3,000,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2017

This grant is to support investigative reporting. It is part of a larger package of grants around investigative journalism that is meant to expand the critical capacity of nonprofit investigative journalism as a robust fourth estate. The grant will empower those newsrooms to pursue rigorous journalism that keeps the government accountable to the American people.

Project:

Investigative Grants

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Apr 2017 to Mar 2019

Strategy:

Investigative Journalism
  • The Center for Investigative Reporting, Inc.
  • $3,000,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2017

This grant is to support investigative reporting. It is part of a larger package of grants around investigative journalism that is meant to expand the critical capacity of nonprofit investigative journalism as a robust fourth estate. The grant will empower those newsrooms to pursue rigorous journalism that keeps the government accountable to the American people.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Apr 2017 to Mar 2019

Strategy:

Investigative Journalism
  • 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
  • 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
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