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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 18 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 – ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grantee identifies multiple cases of Utah police officers violating body-cam policies

The Utah Investigative Journalism Project filed more than 170 records ...

  Grantee tracks influence campaign’s efforts to marginalize homeless people

In continuing coverage of a Dallas-based hotelier and Republican megadonor’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Grantee obtains records showing how Hawaii officials overlooked red flags to place dozens of foster boys with predator

In its ongoing investigation of Hawaii’s child welfare system, with ...

Reporting by grantee examines case of Muslim men who allege they were pepper-sprayed for praying in Missouri prison

A group of Muslim men in a Missouri prison say ...

Grantee film about police raid on Kansas newspaper to premiere at Sundance

“Seized,” a feature documentary about the police raid on a ...

Grantee launches statewide effort to document missing/murdered Indigenous cases in South Dakota

South Dakota Searchlight, with support from the Fund, is cataloging ...

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