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.
Investigating Workers’ Compensation in New York, grantee finds a “long retreat”
New York became the first state in the nation to set up a workers’ compensation system in the wake of
Grantee investigation tracks extent of parents surrendering their kids to foster care to get mental-health treatment
Thousands of children in the throes of mental health crises are turned over to foster care each year by parents
For Florida Trib/ProPublica partnership, grantee shows that jails keep contracting with private health company despite inmate deaths
Miami-based Armor Correctional Health Services has a long history of complaints of providing subpar care to inmates – and has
Grantee obtains new evidence that FBI uncovered serious misconduct by top Chicago jail official
When the FBI investigated the Cook County Sherriff’s Office for a ghost-payrolling scheme in 2022, agents uncovered evidence that a
Trump immigration policies deepen humanitarian crisis across continents, grantee finds
U.S. immigration policies in President Donald Trump’s second term have exacerbated a serious humanitarian crisis – stranding many people in
A DNA archive critical to identifying missing migrants has itself gone missing, grantees find
For a decade, the nonprofit Colibrí Center for Human Rights worked with state agencies and humanitarian organizations to identify migrants
Grantee obtains depositions showing inner working of Disney’s legal battle with the State of Florida
With support from the Fund, Gabrielle Russon obtained 700 pages of depositions from a civil lawsuit stemming from the Walt
Trump cuts have far-reaching impact on Greater Yellowstone, grantee finds
After the Trump Administration created the so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), led by Elon Musk, in early 2025, more