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.
Analysis by grantee shows how regulators and corporations manipulate air-quality data to build factories in Michigan
When companies want to build new facilities, they’re required to assess the impact of pollution on the community’s air quality
In new podcast, grantee digs into systemic issues behind stunning fraud case
Sarah Cavanaugh was a soft-spoken social worker living with her wife in Rhode Island. But in her double life –
Grantee investigation of alleged sexual abuse in New York prisons opens with the story of one of the 1,600 women who have filed claims
In the first story in an ongoing series by Hell Gate and New York Focus on the systemic sexual assault
Grantee’s fight for answers in 1996 ‘cold case’ sparks reinvestigation
In 1996, 36-year-old Susan Walsh reportedly left her house in Nutley, New Jersey, and was never seen again. The freelance
Grantee examines the impact of Trump’s deep-sea mining order on Gulf states and American Samoa
With a seed grant from the Fund, Elyse Hauser obtained government records about deep-sea mining for minerals that can be
Grantee uncovers risks for women who sign contracts with private foster and adoption agencies in Texas
In “The Adoption Trap,” freelance journalist Sandy West took a deep look at private foster and adoption agencies operating in
Grantees uncover Utah domestic-violence case that was mishandled by prosecutors, leaving suspect free to commit more alleged crimes
As part of the Utah Investigative Journalism Project’s ongoing coverage of gaps in support for survivors of domestic violence and
In new book, grantee documents black-market supply chain for medication abortion post-Dobbs
Journalist Rebecca Grant’s new book, Access: Inside the Abortion Underground and the 60-Year Battle for Reproductive Freedom, from Simon &