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
  • People's Parity Project
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2024

The People’s Parity Project is a nationwide network of law students and new attorneys organizing to unrig the legal system and build a justice system that values people over profits.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Judicial Selection and Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

State and Local Accountability
  • Race Forward
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • General and Field Building
  • 2024

Race Forward’s Institutional and Sectoral Change program builds resources to equip civil society to counter authoritarianism and support transnational networks of young people committed to pro-democracy movement building.

Project:

Institutional and Sectoral Change Program

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2024 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Accountable.US
  • $75,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

Accountable.US will develop a “Self-Research 101” training and hold sessions for pro-democracy organizations on defending against potential misinformation and disinformation campaigns targeting their work.

Project:

Self-Research Training

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Aug 2024 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

General
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Solidarity Journalism Initiative is a research-based effort that helps journalists, educators, and students improve coverage of marginalized communities. Solidarity in journalism means that journalists stand for basic human dignity and against suffering, and is a practice of newsworthiness judgments, sourcing, and framing that centers the lived experiences of people.

Project:

Solidarity Journalism Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jul 2024 to Jun 2026

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

The Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights promotes the rights of immigrants and refugees to full and equal participation in the civic, cultural, social, and political life of our diverse society.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Aug 2024 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Political Research Associates
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

Political Research Associates (PRA) is a social justice research and strategy center devoted to supporting organizations, civic leaders, journalists, and social sectors that are building a more just and inclusive democratic society.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2024 to Aug 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Issue One
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

The Elections Communications Hub, a communications hub led by Issue One, The Democracy Communications Collaborative, and the Future US will support 20+ nonpartisan organizations focused on election protection and trust-building by building on existing coordination efforts with dedicated staff and state-of-the-art tools.

Project:

Elections Communications Hub

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Aug 2024 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Institute for Local Self Reliance Inc
  • $450,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR) is a national research and advocacy organization that partners with allies across the country to build an American economy driven by local priorities, accountable to people and the planet.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Jul 2024 to Sep 2027

Strategy:

Civil & Human Rights Online
  • Public Narrative
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

Public Narrative works to strengthen community-driven journalism in Chicago. In 2024 Public Narrative assumed stewardship of the Chicago Independent Media Alliance (CIMA). Their work to integrate CIMA into Public Narrative closes the feedback loop among stakeholders and collaborators like CIMA administrators, members, audiences and supporters/philanthropy.

Project:

Chicago Independent Media Alliance

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Aug 2024 to Jan 2025

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Philanthropy for Active Civic Engagement
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2024

The Democracy Futures Project is a collaborative effort to equip democracy funders with tools, resources, and skills to be more “future-ready.”

Project:

Democracy Futures Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2024 to Dec 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Internews Network
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Listening Post Collective, a project of Internews, uses strategy and capacity building for local and community news primarily led by and serving Black, Indigenous, and People of Color, to build engaged and trusted journalism. Their programs focus on news deserts and place-based community media systems.

Project:

Listening Post Collective

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Apr 2024 to Dec 2025

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Mississippi Center for Justice
  • $450,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2024

By engaging elected officials, faith-based leaders, media, community activists, educators, childcare providers, healthcare professionals and other advocacy partners, the Mississippi Center for Justice dismantles the policies that keep Mississippi at the bottom of nearly every indicator of human well-being and deny African-American and lower-income Mississippians opportunities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Jul 2024 to Sep 2027

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • The Project on Government Oversight, Inc.
  • $1,950,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2024

The Project On Government Oversight (POGO) is a nonpartisan independent watchdog that investigates and exposes waste, corruption, abuse of power, failures by the government to serve the public, or efforts to silence those who report wrongdoing.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Jul 2024 to Jun 2027

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2024

The National Center for Family Philanthropy (NCFP)’s Democracy Learning and Action Cohort will convene trustees and senior staff decision-makers of family philanthropies to encourage philanthropic and other civic investments that have the potential to strengthen and fortify democracy and voting rights in the U.S.

Project:

NCFP Learning and Action Cohort

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Redistricting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

May 2024 to Jan 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc.
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

To encourage donors to move critical pro-democracy funding in time for maximum impact, the #HalfMyDAF campaign and the Amalgamated Foundation created a matching democracy pool for election-related DAF gifts made by June.

Project:

#HalfMyDAF Democracy Matching Pool

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Jun 2024 to May 2025

Strategy:

Roadmap for American Democracy
  • PEN American Center, Inc.
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

PEN American’s Online Abuse Defense Program trains journalists and newsrooms to prepare for, and react to, online attacks via trainings, tools, and resources. They also partner with a broad variety of field actors to build better, safer online spaces.

Project:

Online Abuse Defense Program

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Mar 2024 to Feb 2026

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Southern Coalition for Social Justice
  • $400,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

Southern Coalition for Social Justice is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded by a multidisciplinary group, predominantly people of color, who believed that communities engaged in social justice struggles need a team of lawyers, social scientists, community organizers, and media specialists to support them in their efforts to dismantle structural racism and oppression.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Jan 2024 to Dec 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • El-Hibri Foundation
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

The El-Hibri Foundation (EHF) is a philanthropic organization that empowers and equips Muslim leaders and their allies to build thriving, inclusive communities. EHF has provided capacity building trainings and programs through their Collective Action Leadership Incubator (CALI) for over six years to leaders from American Muslim and ally communities.

Project:

EHF Capacity Building Efforts

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Jan 2024 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
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