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.
- Nonprofit Vote
- $75,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2018
The purpose of this grant is to support Nonprofit VOTE’s continued coordination of National Voter Registration Day. Nonprofit VOTE will work to recruit and empower local partners to register voters within their communities, while simultaneously launching a national media campaign to amplify those efforts.
Project:
National Voter Registration DayFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
Sep 2018 to Aug 2019Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Business Forward Foundation
- $75,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2018
This project grant will allow Business Forward Foundation to activate its network of business leaders across the U.S. to focus on protecting the legitimacy and independence of the U.S. judicial system. This grant will support Business Forward Foundation’s efforts to identify, train, and support business leaders who will speak in favor of the rule of law and will prepare them to push back against attacks on the courts.
Project:
Business Leaders Protecting the CourtsFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Judicial Selection and Performance, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of LawGrant Length:
Nov 2018 to Oct 2019Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- The Pennsylvania State University
- $75,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2014
Pennsylvania State University will complete research on and spread awareness of the CIR process among policymakers and foundation and think tank officers in the US (and potentially abroad) regarding CIR and related ideas for deliberative democratic reform.
Project:
PSU - CIR ResearchFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
Dec 2014 to Dec 2016Strategy:
Previous Strategy- Future Currents
- $75,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2020
The Social and Economic Justice Leaders Project, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, is working to establish new models of co-governance between civil society actors and those working within the institutions of our democracy.
Project:
Social & Economic Justice Leaders Project - Co-Governance ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Dec 2020 to Sep 2021Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- The Andrew Goodman Foundation Inc.
- $75,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2021
This grant provides general operating support.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic ParticipationGrant Length:
Jul 2021 to Jun 2022Strategy:
Constructive Politics- Ethnic Media Services
- $75,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2022
Ethnic Media Services, a fiscally sponsored project of San Francisco Study Center Inc., will expand the visibility and impact of its weekly online national news briefings. These help ethnic media reporters produce coverage of global, national and regional events relevant to their audiences.
Project:
Ethnic Media ServicesFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Jun 2022 to May 2023Strategy:
Digital Democracy- Democracy North Carolina
- $75,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2022
Democracy North Carolina (DemNC) works to strengthen democratic structures, build power among disenfranchised communities, and inspire confidence in a transformed political process that works for all.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Nov 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- American Immigration Council
- $75,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
This grant supports the merger of American Immigration Council and Partnership for a New American Economy into a unified American Immigration Council. By combining their organizations, a far larger portion of the budget can be dedicated to programmatic work serving immigrants.
Project:
AIC Merger SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic IntegrationGrant Length:
Apr 2022 to Jun 2022Strategy:
General- Our Body Politic
- $75,000.00
- Project
- General and Field Building
- 2021
Our Body Politic, a fiscally sponsored project of Aubin Pictures, Inc., is a podcast centered on how Black women, and all women of color, experience the major political events of today, as well as how they are leading and innovating on these issues.
Project:
Our Body PoliticFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Aug 2021 to Apr 2022Strategy:
General- New Georgia Project Incorporated
- $80,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2022
New Georgia Project (NGP) builds power with and increases the civic participation of the New Georgia Majority — Black, Latinx, AAPI, and young Georgians — and other historically marginalized communities through nonpartisan voter registration, organizing, and advocacy on the issues important to our communities.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Dec 2022 to Nov 2023Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Menlo College
- $80,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
To support the Women Also Know Stuff initiative by providing capacity for workshops and a road show.
Project:
Support to Women Also Know StuffFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Jul 2019 to Jun 2021Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- The Campaign Legal Center, Inc.
- $80,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2016
The Campaign Legal Center (CLC) is forming a Litigation Strategy Council (LSC), which is comprised of a small group of the country’s best and most experienced constitutional litigators to collaborate on and lead the development of a pragmatic and winning strategy to transform campaign finance jurisprudence in the courts.
Project:
Litigation Strategy CouncilFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign FinanceGrant Length:
Sep 2016 to Sep 2017Strategy:
Previous Strategy- Openthegovernment.org
- $80,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2021
Open The Government, a fiscally sponsored project of the Fund for Constitutional Government, conducts polling focused on racial justice and accountability.
Project:
Racial Justice and Accountability PollingFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Dec 2021 to Nov 2022Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- 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 StoryFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, GovernmentGrant Length:
Oct 2023 to Sep 2024Strategy:
General- Kanu Hawaii
- $85,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
To provide Kanu, a Hawaii based volunteer organization, with capacity to engage volunteers to raise awareness about nonpartisan civic engagement and empowerment in the state. Kanu will work with other organizations and nonprofits to promote greater Hawaiian participation in voting and public engagement.
Project:
Volunteerism and Civic Engagement-HawaiiFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Dec 2019 to Nov 2020Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- President-Board of Trustees Santa Clara College
- $85,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2017
The Trust Project is developing tools and technologies to make quality news easy for the public to identify and technology platforms to surface.
Project:
Planning Grant for The Trust ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Jul 2017 to Mar 2019Strategy:
Press Freedom- One America Movement
- $85,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2022
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:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation, OtherGrant Length:
Apr 2022 to Oct 2023Strategy:
General- 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 MovementFoundation Center Topic:
OtherGrant Length:
Nov 2023 to Oct 2024Strategy:
General- Duke University
- $85,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2022
The DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy project brings together local news researchers and others to collaborate on a journalism ecosystem funding model that explores how to fund healthy local news ecosystems.
Project:
DeWitt Wallace Center for Media & Democracy Journalism Funding Model ProjectFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Jul 2022 to Jun 2023Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Equality State News Fund
- $90,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2023
Equality State News Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of Wyoming Community Foundation, supports trustworthy, equitable and solutions-focused people, projects and organizations that contribute to a vibrant media ecosystem that helps Wyoming residents and communities to thrive.