North Carolina · Private foundation
The Fund for Democratic Communities
Its FY2025 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
- $1.3M
- Granted FY2024(still arriving)
- 4
- Itemized grants FY2024
- 2
- Organizations funded FY2022
- 50%
- First-time grantees FY2022
- Itemized, FY2024
- $239k
- The rest is grants the schedule does not break out
- Median grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Largest grant, FY2024
- $100,000
- Organizations funded a year
- 2 to 32
- FY2019 to FY2022
- States reached, FY2024
- 3
- Applications
- Takes unsolicited applications
- Per its most recent filing; check its own site
How open it is to new grantees
In FY2022, 50% of the organizations The Fund for Democratic Communities funded were first-time grantees, receiving 99% of its grant dollars.
The numbers by year
| Fiscal year | Organizations funded | To those organizations | First-time grantees |
|---|---|---|---|
| FY2024still arriving | 3 | $239k | 100% |
| FY2022 | 2 | $17k | 50% |
| FY2019 | 32 | $529k | n/a |
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Top grantees
Largest recipients by total granted, FY2019 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.
| Grantee | Total granted | Years | Share of their budget |
|---|---|---|---|
| The Working World Inc | $150,000 | 1 | 4% |
| Showing Up for Racial Justice Education Fund Inc | $100,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Inquiring Systems Inc | $65,000 | 1 | 1% |
| Magnolia House Foundation Inc | $39,000 | 1 | 34% |
| Democracy at Work Institute | $32,000 | 1 | 1% |
| North Carolina Justice Center | $25,000 | 1 | 0% |
| The Peoples Alliance Fund | $20,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Kemetic Institute of Mound Bayou, Inc | $17,000 | 1 | n/a |
| Community Aid and Development Corp | $10,500 | 1 | n/a |
| The Interactive Resource Center Inc | $9,755 | 1 | 1% |
Show all 26 grantees
Plus 10 recipients with no EIN on record ($260k), not named here.
Where it is load-bearing
The Fund for Democratic Communities supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 1 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 17 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.
Tap a dot to name the grantee.
How this is measured
Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · WK Kellogg Foundation · Triangle Community Foundation Inc · Impactassetsinc · Community Foundation of Greater Greensboro Inc · Common Counsel Foundation · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Tides Center · Tides Foundation · Blueprint North Carolina · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Movement Strategy Center
How this is measured
Compare The Fund for Democratic Communities with peer funders
Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus
How do I get to The Fund for Democratic Communities?
Find your warmest path to The Fund for Democratic Communities through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.
Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.
About The Fund for Democratic Communities
- How much does The Fund for Democratic Communities give?
- The Fund for Democratic Communities reported 4 itemized grants totaling $239,000, out of $1,333,000 in total grant expense reported on the return in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 2 and 32 organizations a year over FY2019 to FY2022.
- What does The Fund for Democratic Communities fund?
- By grant dollars over FY2019 to FY2024, its largest causes are Community Improvement (4%), Civil Rights (1%), Public Benefit (1%).
- Who are The Fund for Democratic Communities's largest grantees?
- By total granted over FY2019 to FY2024: The Working World Inc ($150k), Showing Up for Racial Justice Education Fund Inc ($100k), Inquiring Systems Inc ($65k).
- Does The Fund for Democratic Communities fund new organizations?
- In FY2022, 50% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
- Does The Fund for Democratic Communities accept unsolicited applications?
- Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
- Which funders back the same organizations as The Fund for Democratic Communities?
- Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, WK Kellogg Foundation, Triangle Community Foundation Inc.
- Where is The Fund for Democratic Communities based?
- The Fund for Democratic Communities is based in NC.
Play a game based on Fund for Democratic Communities’ filings →