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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.

Grantees’ New York Times/Mississippi Today investigation sparks state review of jail brutality

Guards in a Mississippi jail terrorized people in their care ...

For The Frontier and ProPublica, grantee uncovers failure of Oklahoma regulators to stop toxic wastewater from oil fields

For five years, toxic oilfield wastewater has been pouring out ...

Grantee uncovers pervasive sexual abuse in Idaho’s women’s prisons, prompting state review

In a deeply sourced year-long investigation supported by the Fund, ...

Lax oversight leaves child farmworkers exposed to toxic pesticides, grantee finds; earlier reporting sparked change

Children who work on California farms are particularly susceptible to ...

Grantee data analysis finds that unreliable power has become the norm in rural California

Across northern and central California, customers experience thousands of power ...

Illegal offshore betting websites offer wagers on U.S. college soccer games

Offshore betting websites are offering risky, prop bets on amateur ...

After decades, the EPA still doesn’t have a plan to clean watersheds at one of the oldest Superfund sites in the country, grantee finds

At one of the oldest Superfund sites in the country, ...

Grantee reveals that DC housing agency lost millions in federal funds while bailing out well-connected developer; story sparks action from DC Council

With support from the Fund, Suzie Amanuel’s months-long investigation of ...

Grantee uncovers systemic failure of New York’s rental-assistance program

Private managers of federally subsidized housing projects in New York ...

Grantee examines Hawaii’s foster care system through an investigation into allegations of one horrific home

For years, the state of Hawaii sent foster boys to ...

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 ...

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 ...

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