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
  • One America Movement
  • $85,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

One America Movement provides leadership development for leaders of congregations and faith communities to promote pluralism, fight toxic polarization, and advocate for an inclusive American identity.

Project:

One America Movement

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

General
  • Center for Civic Design
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

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/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Shoulder to Shoulder
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Shoulder to Shoulder, a fiscally sponsored project of The National Religious Campaign Against Torture, connects, equips, and mobilizes faith communities in the U.S. as strategic partners in countering, addressing, and preventing anti-Muslim hatred, discrimination, and violence. Part of this grant will build Shoulder to Shoulder’s fundraising and communications capacity.

Project:

Shoulder to Shoulder

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation

Grant Length:

Sep 2023 to Aug 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Wayne State University
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2023

The Levin Center at Wayne State University works to build capacity in legislative bodies at all levels — federal, state, and abroad — to expose public and private sector abuses, ensure effective governance, and bring critical facts to light for the benefit of all.

Project:

Levin Center at Wayne Law

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

State and Local Accountability
  • OpenSecrets
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2023

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:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Instituto Lab LLC
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • President's Office
  • 2023

Instituto’s mission is to build sustained political power with low-income and communities of color in Arizona. They believe that every community has the inherent leadership, capacity, and resources to create their own solutions, and that all it takes to build power is to facilitate connections and training.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Other

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

General
  • ProGeorgia State Table Inc
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

ProGeorgia is a bold, trusted, and diverse collaborative that champions an equitable and inclusive democracy, for and with traditionally underrepresented communities. They support and coordinate the civic engagement programs of their diverse partner organizations.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Voting Power
  • Center for Technology and Civic Life
  • $400,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2023

The Center for Technology and Civic Life (CTCL) focuses on three areas: training local governments on technology to enhance engagement with their communities, developing low-to-no-cost tools for governmental use, and helping develop infrastructure to evaluate interactions between citizens and government.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Campaigns, Elections, and Voting/Election Administration

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2025

Strategy:

Resilient Elections
  • Asian Law Caucus
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2023

Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus was founded in 1972 as the nation’s first legal and civil rights organization serving low-income, immigrant, and underserved Asian American and Pacific Islander communities. They provide legal services, community empowerment, and policy advocacy to fight for immigrant justice, economic security, and a stronger democracy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2023 to Nov 2024

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • People's Parity Project
  • $150,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2023

The People’s Parity Project is a nationwide network of law students and new attorneys organizing to unrig the legal system and build a justice system that values people over profits.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Judicial Selection and Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2023 to Oct 2024

Strategy:

State and Local Accountability
  • Baltimore Beat Inc.
  • $450,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Baltimore Beat’s mission is to pursue journalism that serves the Baltimore local news ecosystem in the tradition of the Black press, focusing on community, questioning power structures, and prioritizing thoughtful engagement with the community.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • Petty Propolis Inc.
  • $200,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Petty Propolis brings humanity and community to the forefront through literacy efforts, social justice initiatives, data justice organizing and water rights advocacy.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Sep 2023 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, Inc.
  • $400,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2023

Using bold legal actions and in-depth investigations, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) targets government officials who sacrifice the common good to special interests and personal gain.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law, Government/Open Government and Transparency

Grant Length:

Jul 2023 to Dec 2024

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Fight for the Future Education Fund
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2023

Fight for the Future Education Fund is a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists harnessing the power of the Internet to channel outrage into action, defending people’s most basic rights in the digital age. They work to ensure that technology is a force for empowerment, free expression, and liberation rather than tyranny, corruption, and structural inequality.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2023 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Civil & Human Rights Online
  • 22nd Century Initiative
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2022

22nd Century Initiative, a fiscally sponsored project of Tides Center, facilitates widespread opposition to authoritarian movements and ideas, and resources organizations and networks to build an enduring, reparative, people-powered democracy.

Project:

22nd Century Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Black Women Leading
  • $55,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

Black Women Leading, a fiscally sponsored project of the POPVOX Foundation, funds and supports the Black Women’s Congressional Alliance (BWCA). BWCA works to promote, recruit and retain Black women on Capitol Hill. Their network consists of well over 300 active and engaged members.

Project:

Support for Black Women Leading

Foundation Center Topic:

Government, Government/Legislative Branch Performance

Grant Length:

Nov 2022 to Oct 2023

Strategy:

Constructive Politics
  • LawWorks
  • $250,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

The 65 Project, an initiative within LawWorks, a fiscally sponsored project of the Franklin Education Forum, works to increase the adoption of ethics best practices by lawyers and state bar associations.

Project:

Lawyer Ethics Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Other, Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

May 2022 to Apr 2023

Strategy:

Oversight and Accountability
  • The Regents of the University of California, Los Angeles
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2022

The National Center on Race and Digital Justice works on informing legislation, building strong networks of coordinated work, collaborating with grassroots organizers, conducting academic and legal research, curating public lectures, and supporting new thinkers and leaders.

Project:

The National Center on Race and Digital Justice

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Oct 2022 to Mar 2024

Strategy:

Equitable Civic Infrastructure
  • Trustees of Tufts College
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2022

The MGGG Redistricting Lab, a project of the Tisch College of Civic Life at Tufts University, conducts cutting-edge research modeling alternative election systems with modern mathematical and statistical tools, with a focus on STV (single transferable vote) elections within the family of ranked choice systems.

Project:

MGGG Redistricting Lab

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Dec 2022 to Nov 2023

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • Way to Rise
  • $500,000.00
  • Project
  • Elections and Voting
  • 2022

The Valiente Fund is a project of Way to Rise, a fiscally sponsored project of Amalgamated Charitable Foundation. The Valiente Fund will reimagine and scale resources to meet the needs of a growing Latino majority.

Project:

Valiente Fund Support

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Sep 2022 to Feb 2024

Strategy:

Pro-Voter Reform
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