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
  • BoricuActivatEd
  • $25,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2021

Created by a group of former congressional staffers, BoricuActivatEd empowers individuals of all ages and teaches them to become active in the public space. They hold free workshops in locations across the country, carried out by former public servants and former congressional staff members.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • Fair Elections Center
  • $50,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

Fair Elections Center delivers nonpartisan, creative solutions to make the processes of voter registration, voting, and election administration as accessible as possible for every American, with a special focus on student and underrepresented voters.

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:

Oct 2021 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Red Canary Song
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

Red Canary Song, a fiscally sponsored project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs Inc., convenes migrant workers and provides mutual aid, including reproductive health and ob-gyn services for a growing population of migrant women. Their work includes outreach to those communities to make it feel safe for them to access these services in the first place.

Project:

RAD Support of Red Canary Song

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to May 2023

Strategy:

General
  • The University of Texas at Austin
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

The Solidarity Journalism project, housed at the Center for Media Engagement at the University of Texas at Austin, conducts research and provides trainings to reporters on Solidarity Journalism, which centers communities that have been historically excluded or harmed by journalism’s portrayal of them.

Project:

RAD Support of Solidarity Journalism

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Jan 2024

Strategy:

General
  • New America Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

The New Models of Policy Change project, in the Political Reform Program, at New America Foundation supports work on community resilience against right wing extremism and growing political violence.

Project:

Political Reform Program on Resilience and Political Violence

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Jun 2021 to May 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Millions of Conversations, Inc.
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

Millions of Conversations is a movement to transcend divides and bring Americans together through common values to create a shared future. Using Truth & Reconciliation work, they challenge narratives that stigmatize our fellow Americans, disrupt intolerance before it takes root, and help heal communities so all Americans may experience a sense of belonging.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Media, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Oct 2021 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

Rural Digital Youth Resiliency conducts data collection and analysis to document and analyze the networks and strategies used to expose, recruit, and radicalize white youth in the Appalachian region in order to determine opportunities for intervention.

Project:

Researching Radicalization of White Youth in Appalachia

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2021 to Oct 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Shoulder to Shoulder
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

Shoulder to Shoulder, a fiscally sponsored project of The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, trains faith and community leaders to address Islamophobia in their communities.

Project:

Support for Shoulder to Shoulder

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jul 2022

Strategy:

General
  • More in Common Inc.
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

More in Common’s three-part research strategy seeks to understand the challenges around American identity, civic and cultural norms, race, polarization, and violence mitigation. They will identify messaging and approaches that resonate with a majority of Americans.

Project:

American Identity Research & Messaging Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2021 to Sep 2022

Strategy:

General
  • BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

A fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy, Inc., BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund’s Spark Accelerator program provides funding, training, and other resources to organizers, founders, startup nonprofit organizations, and existing grassroots organizing and social justice advocacy groups working in under-resourced communities.

Project:

BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2021 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • Trinity Forum, Inc
  • $50,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

This grant provides general operating support for Trinity Forum.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Media

Grant Length:

May 2021 to Apr 2022

Strategy:

General
  • Canopy Atlanta
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • President's Office
  • 2021

Canopy Atlanta trains and equips local journalists to tell in-depth stories in collaboration with residents of overlooked communities in metro Atlanta’s five core counties.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to Mar 2023

Strategy:

General
  • National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

National CAPACD’s 2021 AAPI Community Resilience Fund supports the racial healing and anti-racism work of recipient organizations, as well as their work to build multi-racial coalitions and strengthen solidarity work locally in neighborhoods. This work includes political education that combats anti-Blackness and advances a deeper understanding of diverse AAPI communities.

Project:

National CAPACD 2021 AAPI Community Resilience Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2021 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Gulf Coast Center for Law & Policy
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

The Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy, a fiscally sponsored project of Project South, advances structural shifts toward Climate Justice + Ecological Equity in Gulf South Black, Indigenous, and Brown communities on the frontlines of climate change.

Project:

Gulf Coast Center for Law and Policy

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2021 to May 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

The Partnership for the Advancement of New Americans (PANA) works to ensure that Black and African, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian (BAMEMSA) immigrant communities are centered in legislative and administrative policies. They also work to reimagine refugee resettlement narratives and policies that have created barriers to the full inclusion of refugees in the fabric of our democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2021 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2021

Adhikaar for Human Rights and Social Justice is an immigrant women-of-color-led grassroots organization based in Woodside, New York. Founded in 2005, they are the country’s only worker and social justice center dedicated to serving and mobilizing the Nepali-speaking community — an underserved, under-resourced, and undercounted community.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration, Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2021 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

General
  • The National Trust for Local News
  • $190,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2021

The National Trust for Local News, a project of the Lenfest Institute for Journalism, will create a network of sustainable, independent community news outlets in Georgia by purchasing at-risk community newspapers and developing ownership and governance structures that create sustainability efficiencies as well as ensure quality and editorial independence.

Project:

Local Community Paper Exploration

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2021 to Feb 2023

Strategy:

General
  • The Miami Foundation Inc.
  • $1,200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2021

The purpose of this grant is to grow and continue The Fund for Nonprofit News, hosted at The Miami Foundation, in support of NewsMatch, a fundraising campaign for nonprofit news.

Project:

Fund for Nonprofit News - NewsMatch

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jul 2023

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • VotingWorks
  • $150,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2021

VotingWorks is developing an open-source tool which will enable election officials to conduct Risk-Limiting Audits (RLAs).

Project:

Risk Limiting Audit Tool Development

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Aug 2021 to Jul 2022

Strategy:

Trust in Elections
  • Partnership for Public Service Inc.
  • $1,150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2021

The Partnership for Public Service builds trust and better relationships between the branches of the federal government, enhances accountability for Congressional stewardship for the Executive Branch, and increases general understanding of the challenges facing the government.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government/Legislative Branch Performance, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Nov 2021 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
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