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
  • 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 Day

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

Sep 2018 to Aug 2019

Strategy:

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 Courts

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Judicial Selection and Performance, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Nov 2018 to Oct 2019

Strategy:

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 Research

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout

Grant Length:

Dec 2014 to Dec 2016

Strategy:

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 Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Dec 2020 to Sep 2021

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

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 Services

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Jun 2022 to May 2023

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Apr 2022 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

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 Politic

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Apr 2022

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

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 Stuff

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Jul 2019 to Jun 2021

Strategy:

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 Council

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance

Grant Length:

Sep 2016 to Sep 2017

Strategy:

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 Polling

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Nov 2022

Strategy:

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 Story

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Government

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

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-Hawaii

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Dec 2019 to Nov 2020

Strategy:

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 Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jul 2017 to Mar 2019

Strategy:

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 Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Apr 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

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 Movement

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

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 Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Jul 2022 to Jun 2023

Strategy:

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.

Project:

Equality State News Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Apr 2025

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
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