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Grantee documents U.S./Mexico border residents’ decades-long fight for clean, safe water

For a half-hour documentary on KUNM, the NPR member station in Albuquerque, Kent Patterson and Mercedes Mejia dug into environmental ...

Grantee tracks corporations’ influence campaigns to build giant AI data centers in rural Georgia counties

Georgia is one of the world’s fastest growing markets for new data centers to support the AI boom, and developers ...

Grantee examines effects of long Covid in children for Rolling Stone investigation

Hundreds of thousands of children nationwide are struggling with long Covid, which many doctors and school refuse to recognize, Eli ...

Deepening support for public-service reporting, Alicia Patterson Foundation merges into Fund for Investigative Journalism

WASHINGTON, DC; December 4, 2025 – The Fund for Investigative Journalism and the Alicia Patterson Foundation announced today that the ...

Grantee uncovers troubling conditions at DC’s corporate-owned psychiatric hospital

Luke Mullins documented alarming conditions inside Psychiatric Institute of Washington (PIW), which is a key part Washington, D.C.’s mental health ...

Webinar Fri 11/21: How to get & use prison legal records

Please join us next Friday, November 21, at noon Eastern for a free webinar on how to obtain and use ...

Fund for Investigative Journalism Awards Record 53 New Grants 

WASHINGTON, DC; Nov. 12, 2025 – The Fund for Investigative Journalism announced today that it is providing 53 new grants ...

Webinar Friday, Oct. 31: Police in shelters

Please join us next Friday, October 31, at noon Eastern for a free webinar on how to cover police misconduct ...

Psychiatric hospitals face few consequences for illegally turning away patients in crisis, grantee finds; story prompts calls for investigation

For stories published by ProPublica, with support from the Fund, Eli Cahan found that dozens of psychiatric hospitals have turned ...

Grantee uncovers proof that plastic industry knew recycling was a false solution in 1974

With support from the Fund, Rebecca John obtained documents revealing that, as early as 1974, the plastics industry knew its ...