We provide grants and other support directly to investigative journalists who commit their lives to uncovering, unraveling and documenting the stories that impact the world most. Many of the stories we support would not be told without the grants and assistance we provide. View an index of our grantees’ stories over the last 12 months and see highlights of recent stories below.
Grantee finds little regulation for chemicals lurking in Pennsylvania town’s drinking water
Natasha Gilbert investigated complaints of contaminated drinking water in Industry, Pa., a small community near Pittsburgh where residents have lived
Cancer is clustered along one rural road in Minnesota, grantee finds
In a related story for Circle of Blue, a news non-profit, Schneider chronicled the story of a community of Minnesota
Corn Belt universities fertilizer advice helps promote water pollution, grantee finds
In the latest in his series on “Big Ag” and water pollution, veteran reporter Keith Schneider examined how taxpayer-funded public
Afghanistan suffers continued effects of wars’ toxins, grantee reveals
America’s two-decade military occupation devastated Afghanistan’s environment in ways that may never be fully addressed, Lynzy Billing reported for New
Grantee’s book reveals high stakes and dangerous race to map the last frontier – the seafloor
Journalist Laura Trethewey, with support from the Fund, published The Deepest Map, which chronicles the quest to map the last
Grantee shows how a struggling college in North Carolina is crumbling, in a cautionary tale
Like many struggling small colleges, North Carolina’s St. Andrews University has stayed open by deferring maintenance, living on credit and
Grantee examines how ‘Big Ag’ makes money ignoring science and polluting America’s waters
In Iowa and other corn-growing states, nitrogen increasingly is spread on fields to keep nutrients in the soil in the
Grantee documents how Donald Trump’s donors have paid more than $130 million in legal fees
Groups in former President Donald Trump’s political network have reported using about $130 million in donor funds to pay lawyers and