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.

Joint grantee series probes law-enforcement misconduct reporting in Milwaukee County
Nationwide, prosecutors are required to disclose information to defendants that might erode the credibility of law-enforcement officials who testify in

Grantees document Trump-induced migration crisis at the U.S. Mexico border
The Trump Administration’s immigration policies have left an estimated 270,000 asylum seekers stranded in Mexico, where some of them face

Seed grant helps reporters uncover apparent pay-to-play corruption in Hawaii, prompting reform
Civil Beat revealed that the FBI recorded an unnamed Hawaii lawmaker receiving $35,000 from a man who was apparently trying

In ‘This American Life’ episode, grantee explores case of Native woman killed in hit-and-run
Sierra Crane Murdoch dug into the case of Mika Westwolf, a young Native woman who died after being hit by

New grantee book documents extent and impact of ‘forever chemicals’ in the U.S.
“Poisoning the Well,” a new book by Sharon Udasin and Rachel Frazin, traces the history of PFAS, a set of

Grantees uncover toxic supply chain in dozens of U.S. cities, zeroing in on impact in El Paso, Texas
Dozens of warehouses across the country store medical devices sterilized with ethylene oxide, a toxic chemical – and the facilities

Grantee exposes cryptocurrency mining ‘racket’ in Texas
For a cover story in the new issue of the Texas Observer, co-published in The Nation, Candice Bernd dug into

Grantee examines controversial tree farms powering Apple’s carbon neutral goal
For a new story in MIT Technology Review, Gregory Barber used land records to identify large-scale eucalyptus plantations in southwestern