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
  • American Bar Association Fund for Justice and Education
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

The ABA Task Force for American Democracy works to safeguard the integrity and non-partisan administration of elections, provide support for election workers and officials, educate Americans on democracy and the rule of law — and their importance to our everyday lives — and suggest ideas to the American people for improving and strengthening our democracy and our elections.

Project:

ABA Task Force on American Democracy

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Jul 2024 to Jun 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • 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 Justice

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Jul 2024 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • Clean Futures Project
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2024

Documented, a project of Clean Futures Project, fiscally sponsored by the Sustainable Markets Foundation, is an investigative project that conducts innovative, forward-looking research exposing the ways organized special interests are undermining our democracy.

Project:

Documented

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

State and Local Accountability
  • Free Election Fund
  • $750,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

Free Election Fund is a 501(c)(3) fiscally sponsored project of Hopewell Fund that uses litigation to protect the right of all citizens to participate fully in our democratic process and safeguard our free and fair elections.

Project:

Free Election Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Apr 2024 to Mar 2025

Strategy:

Roadmap for American Democracy
  • GovAct
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2024

GovAct, a fiscally sponsored project of Global Impact, serves governors and their senior staff who are committed to protecting fundamental freedoms. GovAct engages in this work by coordinating and strengthening the work of governors to address specific threats to American democracy.

Project:

GovAct

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2025

Strategy:

State and Local Accountability
  • KW Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

Influence Change, a program of KW Foundation, a fiscally sponsored project of Social Impact Fund, serves as a hub to convene, educate, and empower artists and influencers using their platforms to increase civic participation.

Project:

Influence Change

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Law Forward Inc.
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

Law Forward is a legal nonprofit working to defend ballot access, led the fight for fair districts, protected separation of powers, advocated for the judiciary’s constitutional role, and convened broad coalitions—including key Wisconsin nonprofits, government officials, and national allies to resist election subversion and ensure fair, free elections.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Jun 2024 to May 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Legal Accountability Center
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2024

Legal Accountability Center, a fiscally sponsored project of Global Impact, conducts research and independent investigations, along with allied organizations, to expose anti-democratic groups or government misconduct, and to enforce accountability.

Project:

Legal Accountability Center

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Military Veterans in Journalism Inc
  • $25,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

Military Veterans in Journalism’s Information Integrity Project is a nonpartisan initiative combating the spread of deceptive narratives and violent extremism in veteran and military communities. A team of journalists, including several military veterans, report on violent extremist groups and narratives and engage with the community online to counter recruitment efforts.

Project:

Information Integrity Program

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Jul 2024 to Jun 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Portland State University Foundation
  • $175,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

The Local Election Officials (LEO Survey) is a project created in partnership between the Elections and Voting Information Center (EVIC) at Reed College and team and Portland State University’s Center for Public Service. This grant supports the design, administration, analysis, and dissemination of findings from the sixth survey.

Project:

LEO Survey

Foundation Center Topic:

Other, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Apr 2024 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • States at the Core
  • $185,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

States at the Center, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc., helps local organizations by providing adaptable, implementable resources and expertise to the states and communities working to increase Americans’ faith in democracy and strengthen democratic institutions.

Project:

States at the Core

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Jun 2024 to May 2025

Strategy:

General
  • The Revival Lab Project
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Revival Lab Project, a fiscally sponsored project of Aspiration, is documenting how the loss of BIPOC local media and community infrastructure, paired with increasingly inextricable relationship between tech companies, governments, and third-party entities, is fueling a social, economic and public health crisis

Project:

The Revival Lab

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Civil & Human Rights Online
  • University of Florida Board of Trustees
  • $225,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

The Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Project at the University of Florida is coordinating a project to identify potential solutions for local government agencies, particularly elections offices, to mitigate the impact of unduly burdensome public records requests, often called “vexatious requests,” while protecting the flow of civic information to the public.

Project:

Vexatious FOI Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Apr 2024 to Jun 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Way to Rise
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2024

The Valiente Fund, a project of Way to Rise, is dedicated to unleashing a new generation of change agents forging Latine unity and power within a multi-racial democracy.

Project:

Valiente Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Apr 2024 to Mar 2026

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • The Miami Foundation Inc.
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Legal Clinic Fund, a joint fund housed at The Miami Foundation, makes grants to university legal clinics to expand their capacity as critical First Amendment advocates and resources for legal support for local newsrooms around the country.

Project:

The Legal Clinic Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Dec 2024 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

General
  • The Miami Foundation Inc.
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Press Forward pooled fund, a collaborative vehicle housed at The Miami Foundation, will support local news around the country. Press Forward seeks to reverse the dramatic decline in local news that has coincided with an increasingly divided America and weakening trust in institutions.

Project:

Press Forward Pooled Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

General
  • FairVote
  • $400,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2024

FairVote is a nonpartisan organization working for better elections for all. They research and advance voting reforms that make democracy more functional and representative for every American, with a focus on two key reforms: ranked choice voting and the Fair Representation Act.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • Values United d/b/a Whistleblower Aid
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2024

Whistleblower Aid’s mission is to report and fix government and corporate lawbreaking — without breaking the law. Their lawyers help clients to stay safe while making impactful disclosures that change policies, because should have to risk their career or their freedom to follow their conscience.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Dec 2024 to Nov 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism CUNY Foundation, Inc.
  • $750,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Center for Community Media, at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at the City University of New York, is dedicated to bolstering community media organizations that deliver crucial local coverage, with the mission of empowering trusted outlets to increase access to relevant and impactful news.

Project:

Center for Community Media

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2027

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Foundation for City College
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

The Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice is a leadership development initiative housed within the City University of New York, to harness the potential of leaders of color working in the democracy reform and social justice sectors.

Project:

Leadership Center for Democracy and Social Justice

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

General
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