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.
Efforts to crack down on smoke shops selling marijuana in Pennsylvania have been haphazard and ineffective, grantee finds
Shops that sell hemp products – often black-market marijuana – have opened across Pennsylvania, and law enforcement efforts to crack
In a three-year reporting project, grantee uncovers systemic lack of oversight for Texas homes for elderly and disabled people
Hundreds of “boarding homes” for elderly and disabled people in Texas operate without oversight, leaving residents vulnerable to neglect and
Loose rules let state police in New York hand out lax discipline for misconduct, grantee finds
For decades, the State Police, New York’s second-largest law enforcement agency, has had no formal disciplinary guidelines for misconduct, and
Grantee reporting documents problems with Maine program that provides heat for low-income residents of mobile homes
With support from the Fund, reporter Emmett Gartner dug into the case of an elderly couple in Maine who couldn’t
Grantee identifies multiple cases of Utah police officers violating body-cam policies
The Utah Investigative Journalism Project filed more than 170 records requests with 48 local law-enforcement agencies across the state to
Grantee tracks influence campaign’s efforts to marginalize homeless people
In continuing coverage of a Dallas-based hotelier and Republican megadonor’s efforts to influence local politics, the Texas Observer began digging
Grantees find that New York State is trying to toss hundreds of sex-abuse cases because of typos; reporting sparks calls for reform
The State of New York plans to ask a judge to dismiss 500 prison sexual abuse cases because of typos
Bankruptcy laws shift burden of cleaning up environmental contamination from oil companies to taxpayers, grantee finds
Cleaning oilfield pollution in West Texas is costly and complicated – and bankruptcy laws let oil companies off the hook,