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
  • Bipartisan Policy Center, Inc.
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

The Bipartisan Policy Center’s (BPC) Elections Project will promote recommendations that improve the quality of U.S. elections. Building on the work of the Task Force on Elections, BPC will advance state and federal election recommendations with a focus on addressing new challenges in election administration.

Project:

Democracy Project Elections Program

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2024

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
  • The National Trust for Local News
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The National Trust for Local News will create a network of sustainable, independent community news outlets in Georgia by purchasing at-risk community newspapers and developing a shared ownership and governance structure–the Georgia News Conservancy–that are sustainable and ensure quality and editorial independence.

Project:

Georgia Local News Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • Free Press
  • $215,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

Free Press is a watchdog for media and technology policy. They conduct research and policy analysis, educate policymakers, the press and the public, pressure corporations, organize campaigns with grasstops and grassroots constituencies to hold decision-makers accountable, and lead winning coalitions.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Jun 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project Inc.
  • $115,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

Rural Digital Youth Resiliency Project’s is creating a workshop series: Building a Community of Practice: Reporting on Extremism for Small Newsrooms and Independent Journalists, and working on post-production for a feature length documentary on the radicalization of youth online.

Project:

Reporting on Extremism

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Race Forward
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

Race Forward catalyzes movement building for racial justice. In partnership with communities, organizations, and sectors, they build strategies to advance racial justice in our policies, institutions, and culture. Founded in 1981, Race Forward brings systemic analysis and an innovative approach to complex race issues to help people take effective action toward racial equity.Race Forward was founded in 1981 as an initiative to bridge efforts between analysts and activists by working with community groups, government, and national organizations to develop and implement policy ideas that advance racial equity.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2024

Strategy:

Representative Leadership
  • People's Action Institute
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

People’s Action Institute will hold a convening of leaders from national network organizations building power in impacted communities of color. This gathering will be the first step to coordinate work across the country, build trust, share information, connect member organizations in states to facilitate cross-learning.

Project:

People's Action organizing network convening

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Dec 2022

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Millions of Conversations, Inc.
  • $350,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

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:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • New American Leaders Inc.
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

New American Leaders is leading a movement fighting for inclusive democracy by equipping immigrants, refugees, and their allies with the tools they need to realize their potential by running for and holding elected office, and by engaging in civic action that brings their voices to the forefront of American politics.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting, Civic Participation, Government

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Representative Leadership
  • Montclair State University Foundation, Inc.
  • $440,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Center for Cooperative Media at Montclair State University, provides critical infrastructure to the local news and information ecosystem across New Jersey. Their signature program, NJ News Commons, along with their other efforts, works to create a more collaborative local news ecosystem in New Jersey and beyond.

Project:

Center for Cooperative Media NJ News Commons

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Dec 2023

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • El Tímpano
  • $115,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

El Tímpano, a fiscally sponsored project of Independent Arts & Media, works in collaboration with residents and community partners to create empowering, two-way channels of information that inform and engage the Bay Area’s Latino and Mayan immigrants.

Project:

El Tímpano

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • URL Media Holdings Inc
  • $215,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

URL Media, a fiscally sponsored project of the Journalism Funding Partners, builds and supports a network of Black and Brown led newsrooms to harness their collective power and content for distribution, sustainability, and audience growth.

Project:

URL Media

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Jul 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Scalawag
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

Through journalism and storytelling, Scalawag works in solidarity with oppressed communities in the South to disrupt and shift the narratives that keep power and wealth in the hands of the few.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Ecosystem News
  • The Pivot Fund
  • $125,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The Pivot Fund, a fiscally sponsored project of Online News Association, invests in the skills, capacity, and development of BIPOC-led and serving community media and lends their expertise to the broader work of building an equitable and robust Georgia local news ecosystem.

Project:

The Pivot Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Aug 2023

Strategy:

General
  • Business Forward Foundation
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

Business Forward Foundation is a research and educational organization that takes a business-minded look at policy issues affecting America’s economic competitiveness. Through white papers, issue briefs, conference calls, and other events, they educate policy makers and the public about climate change, immigration reform, infrastructure investment, and other critical issues.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • TechCongress Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2022

TechCongress places computer scientists, engineers, and other technologists to serve as technology policy advisors to Members of Congress through their Fellowship programs. They bridge the divide of knowledge and experience between DC and Silicon Valley for better outcomes for both.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

Empowering Congress
  • The Aspen Institute Inc
  • $225,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

The Religion and Society Program at the Aspen Institute works to promote religious pluralism, inclusion, and to dismantle hate and extremism.

Project:

Support for the Religion and Society Program

Foundation Center Topic:

Other, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Aug 2022 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Student Press Law Center
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

Founded in 1974, the Student Press Law Center (SPLC) promotes, supports and defends the First Amendment and free press rights of student journalists and their advisers.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media

Grant Length:

Jul 2022 to Jun 2023

Strategy:

Press Freedom
  • Hearken
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

Hearken’s Election SOS project, a fiscally sponsored project of the American Press Institute, provides training, coaching, and capacity support to journalists for more engaged, trusted, and responsive elections coverage in 2022.

Project:

Election SOS

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

May 2022 to Nov 2022

Strategy:

Engaged Journalism
  • International Women's Media Foundation
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The International Women’s Media Foundation’s Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund offers stipends to women-identifying Black journalists facing financial hardship to access critical mental health services.

Project:

Black Journalists Therapy Relief Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Jul 2022 to Jun 2023

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • City Bureau NFP
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2022

City Bureau works to address inequality in Chicago media. Their innovative programs engage Chicagoans directly in the process of producing civic media.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Sep 2023

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
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