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
  • Vet Voice Foundation Inc
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2024

Vet Voice Foundation empowers veterans and military families to have a voice in our democracy by providing them with the support, training, and tools to shape policy and impact outcomes in their communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Local Legal Initiative places full-time staff attorneys throughout the country to provide direct legal services to journalists and news outlets engaged in state and local enterprise and investigative reporting.

Project:

Local Legal Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Apr 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc. dba The Vance Center
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

Lawyers for Reporters, a Vance Center initiative, provides pro bono legal assistance to local and mission-driven journalism organizations in the United States. LFR was created to empower these outlets to investigate and inform their communities about the issues that affect their lives.

Project:

Lawyers for Reporters

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

General
  • New World Foundation
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2024

The Eclipse Fund a multi-issue, learning and funding community of like-minded funders and donors interested in pushing back on the implementation of Project 2025.

Project:

Eclipse Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Black River Life
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

Black River Life, a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, is a nonprofit creative studio and cultural organizing hub working to redress generations of anti-Black narrative harm. Through music, film, journalism and digital content, they seek to transform public conversations about Blackness, inviting the kind of discourse that makes multiracial democracy possible.

Project:

Black River Life

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Civil & Human Rights Online
  • Press On South Inc
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2024

Press On, a Southern media collective, catalyzes change and advances justice through the practice of movement journalism. They train, resource, and build the capacity and narrative power of journalists, media makers, and community organizers from Southern BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, working-class, rural, disabled, immigrant, youth, and elder communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Oct 2027

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Charlottesville Tomorrow
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Charlottesville Inclusive Media Project, a project of Charlottesville Tomorrow, aims to support and cultivate collaboration among the region’s local news outlets.

Project:

Charlottesville Inclusive Media Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2025

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • The Aspen Institute Inc
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2024

Aspen Digital’s AI Elections Initiative works to ensure that amid rapidly evolving technology, civic participation remains a touchstone of American democracy ahead of the 2024 elections.

Project:

AI Elections Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2025

Strategy:

General
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2024

Rapid Assistance Safety Initiative (RASI) is a rapid response grantmaking and technical security project that supports social justice organizations’ increasing physical safety and security needs.

Project:

RASI Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Dec 2025

Strategy:

General
  • The Commonwealth Foundation Inc.
  • $75,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2024

As organizers across the U.S. contend with crises that are both massive and fast-approaching, they are revisiting the core premises that have guided their methods for the last 50 years. The Commonwealth Foundation is researching the evolution of progressive strategy over the last 100 years to write “Grassroots Strategy in the US,” documenting the craft of community organizing and the strategic needs of the progressive movement.

Project:

Grassroots Strategy in the U.S.: Past, Present, Future

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Partnership for Public Service Inc.
  • $525,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2024

The Partnership for Public Service serves as a bridge across the political aisle to build a government that meets its fundamental responsibilities to the public, no matter the political makeup of any presidential administration or Congress. They offer key solutions and performance measures that transform the way government works.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Government Accountability Project Inc
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2024

Government Accountability Project’s mission is to promote corporate and government accountability by protecting whistleblowers, advancing occupational free speech, and empowering citizen activists.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Jun 2024 to May 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

Black Migrant Power Fund, a community-led fund housed at Neo Philanthropy Inc.’s Four Freedoms Fund, supports Black-led, grassroots organizations addressing the urgent needs of Black migrant communities and building power with and for Black migrants in the US.

Project:

Black Migrant Power Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2027

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Charlottesville Tomorrow
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2024

Charlottesville Tomorrow is a community-driven, socially conscious news organization. They serve their neighbors by connecting them to each other and to the issues that affect them most.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Trustees of Princeton University
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

The Bridging Divides Initiative’s (BDI) is a non-partisan research initiative at Princeton University that tracks and mitigates political violence in the United States.

Project:

Tracking and Mitigating Political Violence in the US

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Children's Defense Fund
  • $450,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2024

Children’s Defense Fund works at the intersection of well-being and racial justice for children and youth. They work alongside and amplify the power of youth and families through advocacy, community organizing, direct service, and public policy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Sep 2027

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • The Horizons Project
  • $450,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

The Horizons Project, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, advances research on weakening and dismantling authoritarianism in the United States.

Project:

The Horizons Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2027

Strategy:

General
  • Global Project Against Hate and Extremism, Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

Launched in 2020, the Global Project Against Hate and Extremism (GPAHE) was founded by Heidi Beirich and Wendy Via to address the gap in efforts to stop transnational hate and far-right extremism movements, particularly U.S.-based activity that is exported to other countries and across borders.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Aug 2024 to Jul 2027

Strategy:

General
  • We the Veterans Foundation
  • $350,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

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:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Over Zero
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

Over Zero, a fiscally sponsored project of Hopewell Fund, partners with community leaders, civil society, and researchers to harness the power of communication to prevent, resist and rise above identity-based violence and other forms of group-targeted harm.

Project:

Over Zero

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2027

Strategy:

General
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