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
  • Election Center
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

In late 2022, electionline.org became a project of The Election Center, and this grant provides support for the transition of the website. The Election Center’s purpose is to promote, preserve, and improve democracy. The Center is also known as the National Association of Election Officials.

Project:

Electionline

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

Voter-Centric Election Administration
  • Georgetown University
  • $110,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

The Georgetown Democracy, Education + Service (GeoDES) project at the McCourt School of Public Policy works on congressional modernization efforts. Their goal is a Congress that can effectively legislate on behalf of a diverse and multi-racial America and fulfill its First Branch constitutional duty to check and balance the Executive Branch.

Project:

GeoDES Project

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • National Association of Black Journalists
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The National Association of Black Journalists supports their members through trainings, networking, and scholarship opportunities. They also hold the media accountable for recruitment and retention of black journalists as well as their portrayals of the black community through media narratives.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Jun 2022 to May 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Asian Americans Journalists Association
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

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

Grant Length:

Jul 2022 to Jun 2023

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • NAHJ Association
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

Through professional development services and scholarships, the National Association of Hispanic Journalists (NAHJ) works to diversify mainstream newsrooms, so they better represent the communities they serve. NAHJ also advocates for the accurate representation of Latinos/Hispanic in news.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • New America Foundation
  • $120,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

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

Project:

New Models of Policy Change

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Church World Service, Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Church World Service’s Refugee Organizing project includes grassroots organizing, power-building, and leadership development in refugee communities.

Project:

Refugee Organizing

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Emergent Fund
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Emergent Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of Amalgamated Charitable Foundation, funds rapid response and emergent organizing led by frontline Black, Indigenous, and organizers of color with trust-based, no-string-attached grants. This grant is made by Democracy Fund in collaboration with the Rights and Dignity Working Group, a cross-Omidyar Group initiative.

Project:

RAD Support for Emergent Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

Rights and Dignity
  • Democracy Rising
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

Democracy Rising, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy Inc., works directly with community groups advancing democracy reform to build effective organizing, education, and advocacy strategies and to ensure just implementation.

Project:

Support for Democracy Rising

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • OpenSecrets
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Nonpartisan, independent and nonprofit, OpenSecrets is the nation’s premier research group tracking money in U.S. politics and its effect on elections and public policy. Their mission is to track the flow of money in American politics and provide the data and analysis to strengthen democracy.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Muslim Anti-Racism Collaborative (MuslimARC) focused on building capacity within Muslim and allied communities for racial justice. MuslimARC creates anti-racism curriculum and education resources, connects multi-racial and multi-faith networks via storytelling and media, and cultivates racial justice through leadership and community development programs.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Shoulder to Shoulder
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

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:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Justice Work
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Justice Work is a think tank/action lab that incubates path-breaking and creative initiatives to advance social justice. They center marginalized voices to challenge conventional priorities and strategies. They develop long-term partnerships with front-line organizations and academic institutions to strengthen social justice movements and break down siloed spaces.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

The Guinier Project, an initiative of the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute for Race & Justice at Harvard Law School, will examine alternative voting systems through a racial justice lens.

Project:

The Guinier Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Voting Access

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund
  • $60,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

BRIDGE Infrastructure Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of NEO Philanthropy Inc., is an infrastructure, capacity, and people building nonprofit organization designing, growing, and nurturing evergreen, progressive impact in Texas. They are developing their internal capacity to increase long-term sustainability and improve the impact of their work.

Project:

Capacity Building

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Mississippi Votes
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Mississippi Votes works to increase voter registration and turnout (specifically within 18-35 voting bloc) through innovative and high-tech engagement programming and outreach strategies. They also engage traditional organizing techniques to cater to the needs of today’s voters.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Southern Coalition for Social Justice
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Southern Coalition for Social Justice (SCSJ) represents individual voters and civic engagement groups in litigation to protect the right to cast a ballot and to ensure that every eligible vote counts equally. They also provide counsel to local community groups regarding redistricting and speak on behalf of clients at local town hall meetings and legislative committees.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • New America Foundation
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

Ranking Digital Rights (RDR) works to promote freedom of expression and privacy on the internet by creating global standards and incentives for companies to respect and protect users’ rights.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • South Asian Americans Leading Together
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT) is a nation­al move­ment strat­e­gy and advo­ca­cy orga­ni­za­tion working to promote racial jus­tice through fed­er­al pol­i­cy and advo­ca­cy, local and nation­al part­ner­ships, coali­tion build­ing, and strate­gic com­mu­ni­ca­tions.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Tech Talent Project
  • $10,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2022

The Tech Talent Project, a fiscally sponsored project of the New Venture Fund, increases the federal government’s ability to recruit modern technical leaders to achieve critical human, economic, and policy outcomes.

Project:

Investing in Staff Wellbeing

Foundation Center Topic:

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

General
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