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.
- Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc.
- $150,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2018
This grant to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) will support their project to assess and counter foreign technology-enabled threats to our judicial system. The project will engage stakeholders in off-the-record discussions of the threats presented, train individuals in the judicial system to counter these threats, and will culminate in a report with findings and recommendations for further action.
Project:
Countering Active-Measure Threats to the U.S. JudiciaryFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Judicial Selection and Performance, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of LawGrant Length:
May 2018 to Apr 2019Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- Center for Technology and Civic Life
- $700,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
To provide general operating support to the Center for Technology and Civic Life.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Jun 2019 to Jun 2021Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Center for Technology and Civic Life
- $400,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2015
The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) focuses on three areas: training local governments on technology to enhance engagement with their communities, developing low to no cost tools for governmental use, and helping develop infrastructure to evaluate interactions between citizens and government.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Jul 2015 to Jun 2017Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Center for Technology and Civic Life
- $40,000.00
- Project
- President's Office
- 2017
Provide additional capacity building support for administrative training to Center for Technology and Civic Life staff and leadership.
Project:
Capacity Building SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Aug 2017 to Jul 2018Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Center for Technology and Civic Life
- $500,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2017
Provide two years of general operating support to The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL). CTCL will continue to focus on three areas: training local governments to utilize technology to enhance civic livelihood in their communities, develop low to no cost tools for governmental use, help develop infrastructure allowing the capture of data and information during interactions between citizens and government.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Aug 2017 to Jul 2019Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Center for Technology and Civic Life
- $400,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2023
The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) focuses on three areas: training local governments on technology to enhance engagement with their communities, developing low-to-no-cost tools for governmental use, and helping develop infrastructure to evaluate interactions between citizens and government.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Dec 2023 to Nov 2025Strategy:
Resilient Elections- Center for Technology and Civic Life
- $550,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2021
The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) focuses on three areas: training local governments on technology to enhance engagement with their communities, developing low-to-no-cost tools for governmental use, and helping develop infrastructure to evaluate interactions between citizens and government.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Sep 2021 to Aug 2023Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Center on Race and Digital Justice
- $300,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2024
The Center on Race and Digital Justice, a fiscally sponsored project of Code for Science and Society, works with students, faculty, civil society organizations, technology workers, community organizers, storytellers, and policy makers to develop solutions for the existential threats posed by unregulated technology products and practices.
Project:
Center on Race and Digital JusticeFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Jul 2024 to Sep 2026Strategy:
Equitable Civic Infrastructure- Chalkbeat Inc.
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2022
This project grant supports the Sunnylands Local News Initiative as run by Chalkbeat, will work to reimagine, revitalize, and resource local news in service of our democracy through a series of research, gatherings, and coordinated convenings.
Project:
Sunnylands Local News RoadmapFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Aug 2022 to Aug 2023Strategy:
General- Chalkbeat Inc.
- $150,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2022
Votebeat is a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting access year-round.
Project:
VotebeatFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Sep 2022 to Feb 2023Strategy:
General- Chalkbeat Inc.
- $250,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2018
The purpose of this grant is to support Chalkbeat’s community driven local news bureau model across the United States. This general operating grant will support Chalkbeat’s efforts to create a scalable and sustainable model for local journalism that serves communities while sharing costs across geographic bureaus in order to make the work maximally sustainable.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Oct 2018 to Mar 2020Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Chalkbeat Inc.
- $250,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2020
This general operating grant will support Chalkbeat’s efforts to create a scalable and sustainable model for local journalism that serves communities while sharing costs across geographic bureaus in order to make the work maximally sustainable.
Project:
ChalkbeatFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Jul 2020 to Jun 2021Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Charlottesville Tomorrow
- $150,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2023
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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2024Strategy:
News & Information Ecosystems- 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 SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Oct 2024 to Sep 2026Strategy:
News & Information Ecosystems- Check My Ads Institute
- $800,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2023
Check My Ads Institute is an independent watchdog reshaping the digital adtech industry from within its ranks — and building a new sustainable standard in digital advertising.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Sep 2023 to Sep 2026Strategy:
Civil & Human Rights Online- Check My Ads Institute
- $515,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2022
Check My Ads Institute is an independent watchdog reshaping the digital adtech industry from within its ranks — and building a new sustainable standard in digital advertising.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Mar 2022 to Jun 2023Strategy:
Digital Democracy- Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2018
To support Chicago Lawyers’ Committee’s work on the evaluation of the Automatic Voter Registration implementation process in Illinois and allow the Lawyers’ Committee to expand state and local stakeholder awareness of the best practices and challenges associated with the implementation.
Project:
Illinois AVR Implementation EvaluationFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Dec 2018 to May 2020Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Chicago Reader
- $50,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2020
The Chicago Independent Media Alliance project at the Chicago Reader, a fiscally sponsored project of the Oak Park-River Forest Community Foundation, brings together 60 community media in Chicago to provide training, shared resources, and a coalition of support during a devastating time for media that serves communities.
Project:
Chicago Independent Media AllianceFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Nov 2020 to Oct 2021Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Chicago Reader
- $30,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2019
The purpose of this grant is to support the planning for the creation of a collaborative for independent media organizations in Chicago. The Chicago Reader, fiscally sponsored by Public Narrative, will lead this effort and use this support to provide the administration needed to get this effort off the ground.
Project:
Chicago Independent Media AllianceFoundation Center Topic:
Media, Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Nov 2019 to Oct 2020Strategy:
Ecosystem News- 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.