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
  • Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

The Funders’ Collaborative on Youth Organizing (FCYO) , a fiscally sponsored project of Bend the Arc: A Jewish Partnership for Justice, is a dynamic collective of social justice funders and youth organizing practitioners dedicated to advancing youth organizing as a strategy for youth development and social change.

Project:

Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Local Solutions Support Center
  • $400,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2024

Local Solutions Support Center (LSSC), a project of the New Venture Fund, is a national hub that connects, coordinates, and creates efforts to both counter the increasing misuse of preemption, and to strengthen local democracy. Preemption is when higher levels of government restricts the authority of a lower level of government to act on a particular issue.

Project:

Local Solutions Support Center

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

State and Local Accountability
  • Future Currents
  • $1,000,000.00
  • Project
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

Future Currents creates the spaces for movement organizations to build resilient relationships, tackle pressing challenges, and prepare for possible conditions.

Project:

Future Currents

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Western States Center Inc.
  • $600,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

Western States Center works to build a future where all people can live, love, worship, and work free from bigotry and fear. They foster leaders, organizations, collaborations, and initiatives that reduce disparities and advance equity; lift up the leaders of marginalized communities; and deliver accessible tools for community organizing and civic engagement.

Project:

Western States Center

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2027

Strategy:

General
  • Undivided, Inc
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

UNDIVIDED offers workshops, academically validated cohort programs, keynotes, and trainings that lead people toward awareness, through growth, and into action for racial justice in their communities and organizations. Through experiential programming, their trained facilitators engage participants in courageous conversations that create measurable impact.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation

Grant Length:

Dec 2024 to Nov 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Democracy Rising
  • $350,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2024

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:

Democracy Rising

Foundation Center Topic:

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

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Oct 2026

Strategy:

Representative Institutions
  • National Immigration Law Center
  • $400,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

The National Immigration Law Center (NILC) is one of the leading organizations in the U.S. exclusively dedicated to defending and advancing the rights of immigrants with low income.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Oct 2027

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Welcoming America Inc.
  • $450,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Just and Inclusive Society
  • 2024

Welcoming America is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that leads a movement of inclusive communities becoming more prosperous by ensuring everyone belongs. Through the Welcoming Network, they help communities develop the roadmap they need to create welcoming policies and share new approaches to creating an environment where everyone can truly thrive.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Naturalization and Immigrant Civic Integration

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Oct 2027

Strategy:

Power Building in Marginalized Communities
  • Public Media Company
  • $50,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2024

Public Media Company is an essential partner to media organizations around the
country. They work with nonprofit and noncommercial media organizations, providing specialized business services, and helping them expand their service and impact, strengthen their communities, and secure their future.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Vet Voice Foundation Inc
  • $125,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2024

Vet Voice Foundation empowers veterans and military families to have a voice in our democracy by providing them with the support, training, and tools to shape policy and impact outcomes in their communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Civil Liberties and Rule of Law

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press
  • $300,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Local Legal Initiative places full-time staff attorneys throughout the country to provide direct legal services to journalists and news outlets engaged in state and local enterprise and investigative reporting.

Project:

Local Legal Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Apr 2026

Strategy:

General
  • Association of the Bar of the City of New York Fund, Inc. dba The Vance Center
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

Lawyers for Reporters, a Vance Center initiative, provides pro bono legal assistance to local and mission-driven journalism organizations in the United States. LFR was created to empower these outlets to investigate and inform their communities about the issues that affect their lives.

Project:

Lawyers for Reporters

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

General
  • New World Foundation
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Governance
  • 2024

The Eclipse Fund a multi-issue, learning and funding community of like-minded funders and donors interested in pushing back on the implementation of Project 2025.

Project:

Eclipse Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
  • Black River Life
  • $200,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

Black River Life, a fiscally sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, is a nonprofit creative studio and cultural organizing hub working to redress generations of anti-Black narrative harm. Through music, film, journalism and digital content, they seek to transform public conversations about Blackness, inviting the kind of discourse that makes multiracial democracy possible.

Project:

Black River Life

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Media, Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Sep 2026

Strategy:

Civil & Human Rights Online
  • Press On South Inc
  • $300,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Public Square
  • 2024

Press On, a Southern media collective, catalyzes change and advances justice through the practice of movement journalism. They train, resource, and build the capacity and narrative power of journalists, media makers, and community organizers from Southern BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, working-class, rural, disabled, immigrant, youth, and elder communities.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism, Media/Journalism Education and Training, Media

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Oct 2027

Strategy:

Journalism & Power Building
  • Charlottesville Tomorrow
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • Public Square
  • 2024

The Charlottesville Inclusive Media Project, a project of Charlottesville Tomorrow, aims to support and cultivate collaboration among the region’s local news outlets.

Project:

Charlottesville Inclusive Media Project

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Journalism

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2025

Strategy:

News & Information Ecosystems
  • The Aspen Institute Inc
  • $50,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2024

Aspen Digital’s AI Elections Initiative works to ensure that amid rapidly evolving technology, civic participation remains a touchstone of American democracy ahead of the 2024 elections.

Project:

AI Elections Initiative

Foundation Center Topic:

Media/Media Access and Policy, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Aug 2025

Strategy:

General
  • NEO Philanthropy Inc.
  • $100,000.00
  • Project
  • President's Office
  • 2024

Rapid Assistance Safety Initiative (RASI) is a rapid response grantmaking and technical security project that supports social justice organizations’ increasing physical safety and security needs.

Project:

RASI Fund

Foundation Center Topic:

Other

Grant Length:

Oct 2024 to Dec 2025

Strategy:

General
  • The Commonwealth Foundation Inc.
  • $75,000.00
  • Project
  • General and Field Building
  • 2024

As organizers across the U.S. contend with crises that are both massive and fast-approaching, they are revisiting the core premises that have guided their methods for the last 50 years. The Commonwealth Foundation is researching the evolution of progressive strategy over the last 100 years to write “Grassroots Strategy in the US,” documenting the craft of community organizing and the strategic needs of the progressive movement.

Project:

Grassroots Strategy in the U.S.: Past, Present, Future

Foundation Center Topic:

Civic Participation/Civic Education and Leadership, Civic Participation, Civic Participation/Issue-based Participation, Civic Participation/Public Participation, Other

Grant Length:

Sep 2024 to Jul 2025

Strategy:

General
  • Partnership for Public Service Inc.
  • $525,000.00
  • General Operating Support
  • Governance
  • 2024

The Partnership for Public Service serves as a bridge across the political aisle to build a government that meets its fundamental responsibilities to the public, no matter the political makeup of any presidential administration or Congress. They offer key solutions and performance measures that transform the way government works.

Project:

General Operating Support

Foundation Center Topic:

Government/Executive Branch Performance, Government

Grant Length:

Nov 2024 to Oct 2025

Strategy:

Preventing Authoritarian Abuse of Power
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