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
  • 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
  • Online News Association
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2021

This grant provides general operating support to the Online News Association.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Feb 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Democracy Works Inc.
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

Founded by the CAA Foundation and Democracy Works, the Civic Alliance is a nonpartisan business coalition that encourages civic participation, supports safe, accessible and trusted elections, and works to inspire every American to participate in shaping our country’s future.

Project:

Civic Alliance Expansion Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Sep 2021 to Aug 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Center for Civic Design
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

The Center for Civid Design applies design thinking to how elections invite participation in the democratic process. They support election officials in making materials and processes clear, easy, and effective by researching the needs of voters for access, information, and opportunity to vote.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jul 2023

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Civic Engagement Research & Dissemination Hub
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

The Civic Engagement and Dissemination Hub, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy Inc., is a source of research on best practices for voter contact in the field of nonpartisan civic engagement.

Project:

Civic Engagement Research & Dissemination Hub

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Dec 2021

Strategy:

General
  • Future Currents
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2021

The Social and Economic Justice Leaders Planning Group, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, provides research, scenario-planning methodologies, and strategy-design processes to grassroots organizations and movement leaders to help them achieve their goals for a vibrant, reparative democracy.

Project:

Social and Economic Justice Leaders

Foundation Center Topic:

Government

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Sojourners
  • $315,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

Sojourners is an independent, award-winning print and online magazine of faith, culture, and politics.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Media, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

May 2021 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Center for Public Justice
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

The Center for Public Justice’s provides training for federal employees who are tasked with managing faith-based initiatives, teaching them the fundamentals of the job and how to effectively promote religious freedom and pluralism.

Project:

Support for Religious Pluralism Training for Federal Employees

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government

Grant Length:

May 2021 to Apr 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Justice Work
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

22nd Century Initiative is a project of Justice Work, a fiscally sponsored project of the National Center for Civic Innovation. The Initiative addresses the expansion and mainstreaming of white nationalism and other far right movements in the U.S. by developing strategies, networks, research, and actions that protect the integrity of our democracy.

Project:

22nd Century Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Public Policy and Education Fund of New York, Inc.
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2021

The Public Policy and Education Fund of New York provides training, coaching, and leadership development to build a more diverse, resilient and effective democracy movement.

Project:

Grassroots Training and Coaching

Foundation Center Topic:

Government, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jul 2022

Strategy:

General
  • 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
  • University of Maryland
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at the University of Maryland is conducting research comparing traditional social science methods of determining voting accessibility through distance-based calculations. This research seeks to improve the data and methods used to select and evaluate the accessibility of voting sites.

Project:

Research on Transportation Measures of Accessibility of Voting Locations

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Algorithmic Justice League
  • $175,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2021

Algorithmic Justice League, a fiscally sponsored project of New Venture Fund, conducts and publicizes research investigating algorithmic bias in high visibility commercial and public sector AI systems.

Project:

Algorithmic Justice League

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Mar 2023

Strategy:

Digital Democracy
  • Asian Americans Journalists Association
  • $114,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2021

To build organizational capacity to continue Asian Americans Journalists Association’s support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while partnering with media to ensure responsible and diverse coverage of AAPI communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2021

The Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project is an independent nonprofit investigative reporting and research organization. They are producing the workshop series Building a Community of Practice: Reporting on Extremism for Small Newsrooms and Independent Journalists.

Project:

Reporting on Extremism

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jul 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • Faith Matters Network Collaborative
  • $25,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

The Faith Matters Network’s Daring Compassion Movement Chaplaincy Project, a fiscally-sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, offers holistic wellness accompaniment to those leading social events, movements, and organizations.

Project:

Support for Faith Matters Network

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Jul 2021 to Jun 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc.
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2021

This grant supports Leadership Education for Asian Pacifics, Inc.’s development of a training program for diverse professionals in the public service sector.

Project:

Support for Leadership Development Trainings

Foundation Center Topic:

Government, Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jul 2022

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Trusted Elections Fund
  • $900,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2021

To support the Trusted Elections Fund (formerly known as the Joint Fund for a Healthy Democracy), a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund. By strengthening civic infrastructure and election administration resiliency, the Trusted Elections Fund works to ensure free and fair elections.

Project:

Trusted Elections Fund 2021-2 Renewal

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Dec 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Interfaith Youth Core
  • $60,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

The Interfaith Innovation Fellows program provides training and funding for Interfaith Youth Core Alumni who are leading projects at the intersection of racial equity and interfaith cooperation.

Project:

Support for Interfaith Fellowship Program

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Apr 2021 to Mar 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc.
  • $175,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2021

The Defending Democratic Institutions (DDI) project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) assesses and counters technology-enabled threats to our judicial system. The project sends alerts about threats from malign interference, trains judiciary workers on how to respond to threats, and conducts research into this interference.

Project:

Defending Democratic Institutions

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Government/Judicial Selection and Performance

Grant Length:

Jun 2021 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
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