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.
- VotingWorks
- $350,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
The Voting Works Risk Limiting Audit (RLA) tool helps election officials calculate the number of ballots needed to conduct an RLA based on the risk limit they have set for a contest. Post-election auditing is one important way that election officials can prove the accuracy of election outcomes and inspire greater public confidence in the voting process.
Project:
Risk Limiting Audit Tool DevelopmentFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Dec 2019 to Dec 2020Strategy:
Trust in Elections- United We Dream
- $20,000.00
- Project
- Just and Inclusive Society
- 2019
To support wellness and healing for frontline staff at United We Dream, and to learn about strategies, resources, and needs in the field.
Project:
RAD Healing and Wellness for United We DreamFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Public ParticipationGrant Length:
Nov 2019 to May 2020Strategy:
General- NAHJ Association
- $200,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2019
This is a general operating grant to the National Association of Hispanic Journalists that will increase their support of members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities, while holding the media accountable in their portrayals of the diverse and evolving Hispanic community in the United States.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media/JournalismGrant Length:
May 2019 to Apr 2020Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- The Andrew Goodman Foundation Inc.
- $300,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2019
This grant will support the ongoing activities of the Andrew Goodman Foundation to promote youth civic engagement and participation through leadership development and opportunities to become active within their communities.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and TurnoutGrant Length:
Jan 2019 to Dec 2020Strategy:
Constructive Politics- Facing History and Ourselves National Foundation, Inc.
- $30,000.00
- General Operating Support
- President's Office
- 2019
This grant supports Facing History and Ourselves in their mission to promote understanding, pluralism and civic engagement through classroom programming.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Civic Participation/Civic Education and LeadershipGrant Length:
Mar 2019 to Mar 2020Strategy:
General- The Miami Foundation Inc.
- $1,300,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2019
The purpose of this grant is to grow and continue The Fund for Nonprofit News, fiscally sponsored by The Miami Foundation, in support of NewsMatch 2019 and 2020. The Fund supports a matching gifts program designed to encourage donations to nonprofit newsrooms and expand the capacity of nonprofit journalism to build their small donor base.
Project:
Fund for Nonprofit News - NewsMatch 2019 and 2020Foundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Jun 2019 to May 2021Strategy:
Ecosystem News- Center for Strategic and International Studies, Inc.
- $300,000.00
- Project
- Governance
- 2019
The Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS)’s Defending Democratic Institutions (DDI) project will assess and counter foreign technology-enabled threats to our judicial system by alerting members of the judiciary to threats from foreign adversaries, and train judges and their staff to mitigate the threats.
Project:
Countering Active-Measure Threats to the U.S. JudiciaryFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Judicial Selection and PerformanceGrant Length:
May 2019 to Dec 2020Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- TPF Special Assets Fund, DBA The Lenfest Institute for Journalism
- $100,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2019
The Community Listening and Engagement Fund (CLEF) is a philanthropic collaborative to subsidize the costs of engagement tools like Hearken, Groundsource, Coral Project, and Listening Post in newsrooms across the country to help them better connect with their communities.
Project:
Community Listening and Engagement FundFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Jul 2019 to Jun 2020Strategy:
Engaged Journalism- Pro Publica Inc.
- $700,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Public Square
- 2019
To support ProPublica’s investigative journalism as a critical check and balance on power. The grant will provide ProPublica with general operating support to help them fulfill their role as a core part of America’s fourth estate.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Media/JournalismGrant Length:
Dec 2019 to Jun 2021Strategy:
Investigative Journalism- Wesleyan University
- $25,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2019
To support the Wesleyan Media Project in their work to organize data to hold platforms accountable to the American public and to advance America’s democratic promise. This grant will fund research and scholarship into how best to collect and publish data regarding political advertising on platforms, with a focus on ads that involve race and gender.
Project:
Platforms & Political AdsFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Media Access and PolicyGrant Length:
Aug 2019 to Feb 2020Strategy:
Digital Democracy- Sojourners
- $325,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2019
Sojourners is an independent, award-winning print and online magazine of faith, culture, and politics.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voter Education, Registration, and Turnout, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of LawGrant Length:
Aug 2019 to Jul 2020Strategy:
Constructive Politics- Center for Internet Security Inc.
- $330,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
The Center for Internet Security’s (CIS) Election Security Best Practices team will develop security-focused tools and guidance for election officials and election technology providers.
Project:
Election Security Tools and TrainingFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Aug 2019 to Jan 2021Strategy:
Trust in Elections- The New School
- $150,000.00
- Project
- Public Square
- 2019
To support the New School’s Journalism + Design program in their efforts to train local newsrooms on systems and design thinking through workshops, convenings, and a digital toolkit to help journalists develop new ways to understand and serve their local communities’ needs.
Project:
Systems Thinking TrainingFoundation Center Topic:
Media/Journalism Education and TrainingGrant Length:
Jan 2019 to Feb 2020Strategy:
Ecosystem News- College to Congress
- $165,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2019
This grant will provide general support for College to Congress.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch PerformanceGrant Length:
Jan 2019 to Dec 2019Strategy:
Constructive Politics- Win | Win Network
- $25,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
To support the Win/Win coalition’s efforts around automatic voter registration implementation in Washington state.
Project:
Implementing Automatic Voter Registration & Voting Rights in WashingtonFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting AccessGrant Length:
Jun 2019 to Nov 2019Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Common Cause Education Fund
- $20,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
To support Common Cause Massachusetts’ work on automatic voter registration implementation.
Project:
AVR Implementation in MassachusettsFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Jun 2019 to Nov 2019Strategy:
Pro-Voter Reform- Center for Technology and Civic Life
- $700,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
To provide general operating support to the Center for Technology and Civic Life.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election AdministrationGrant Length:
Jun 2019 to Jun 2021Strategy:
Voter-Centric Election Administration- Millennial Action Project
- $175,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2019
General support for Millennial Action Project
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Legislative Branch PerformanceGrant Length:
Jan 2019 to Dec 2019Strategy:
Constructive Politics- The Project on Government Oversight, Inc.
- $2,500,000.00
- General Operating Support
- Governance
- 2019
General operating support for the Project On Government Oversight.
Project:
General Operating SupportFoundation Center Topic:
Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government/Open Government and TransparencyGrant Length:
Jun 2019 to May 2022Strategy:
Oversight and Accountability- President and Fellows of Harvard College
- $450,000.00
- Project
- Elections and Voting
- 2019
To support the Defending Digital Democracy Project (D3P) at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs to help election administrators and other government officials better protect election systems through a variety of trainings and tools.