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
  • 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
  • 22nd Century Initiative
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

22nd Century Initiative, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center, facilitates widespread opposition to authoritarian movements and ideas, and resources organizations and networks to build an enduring, reparative, people-powered democracy.

Project:

22nd Century Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

The Center for Empowered Politics Education Fund (CEPEF) is a movement capacity building organization that trains and develops new leaders of color and people of color led organizations, and grow the movement infrastructure, particularly around racial justice, organizing, and power building strategies.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Campaign Finance, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Community Foundation for Southern Arizona
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

The Community Foundation for Southern Arizona connects donors to the causes they care about, serving as a vital link between philanthropy and the community’s needs. They are working to provide ongoing community leadership and recurring philanthropic support to the organizations helping to rebuild trusted, local news and information in their community.

Project:

Local Journalism Initiative of Southern Arizona

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Defending Democracy Together Institute
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The Pillars of the Community Project, which is part of the Defending Democracy Together Institute (DDTI), bolsters local and state election officials in key counties and states in their defense of the electoral process and the election administrators who make it work.

Project:

Pillars of the Community Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Feb 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Democracy Revival Center
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2023

The Democracy Revival Center, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center, will bring a generation of social and economic justice leaders, working across issue silos, into the long-term fight to transform political and governing institutions—and lay the groundwork for them to succeed.

Project:

Democracy Revival Center

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Redistricting, Government/Judicial Selection and Performance, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • Democracy: A Journal of Ideas, Inc.
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2023

In partnership with Protect Democracy, Democracy Journal’s Fall 2023 symposium on proportional representation will commission research by a diverse set of leading experts interrogating various dimensions of the topic, ranging from Proportional Representation and its implications for gerrymandering to the potential ramifications for racial representation.

Project:

Symposium On Proportional Representation

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Media/Journalism, Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Redistricting, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Apr 2024

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • 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
  • Informing Democracy Education Fund
  • $250,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

Informing Democracy brings together election professionals, researchers, and lawyers who are providing research and information about what happens in election administration after votes are cast. They are building a central repository of research and information about how votes are counted and elections are certified in order to protect the integrity of our elections.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Apr 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • ISRC Education Fund
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The Independent Strategic Research Collaborative Education Fund (ISRC), a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, provides research, messaging development, and research and communications alignment to the pro-democracy movement. Their work includes facilitating convening spaces for leaders to share intel, strategy, messaging guidance, and calls to action.

Project:

ISRC Education Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Jan 2026

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Keseb
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2023

Keseb, a fiscally sponsored project of the Fund for Constitutional Government, is a nonpartisan, pro-democracy nonprofit organization building transnational alliances between democracy activists and entrepreneurs to fight authoritarian ideology, demagogic political leaders, and xenophobic movements.

Project:

Support for Keseb

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Latino Community Fund Inc
  • $195,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

Latino Community Fund Georgia (LCF Georgia) supports Latinx-serving and Latinx-led nonprofit organizations that are advancing democracy, protecting and building community, and facilitating economic opportunities for all.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Apr 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • Narrative Initiative
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Narrative Initiative, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, works with social movements and changemakers to envision and strategize for narrative change that embodies a movement’s aspirations.

Project:

Narrative Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • New York University
  • $450,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Cybersecurity for Democracy is researching and iterating on Ad Observer and the Ad Observatory, as well as exploring the creation of new tools to better help researchers, advocates, and journalists track digital disinformation.

Project:

Cybersecurity For Democracy

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

May 2023 to May 2026

Strategy:

Civil & Human Rights Online
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