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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.

Grantee podcast digs into history of right-wing shortwave radio use that feeds current media landscape

The second season of Katie Thornton’s podcast, “The Divided Dial” ...

EPA excluded data on Black people who live closest to toxic sites; grantee reporting leads EPA to restore data

An investigation by Streetlight, a nonprofit news outlet based in ...

Book on the Amazon published after friends of murdered journalist finished his work

Journalist Dom Phillips and activist Bruno Pereira were brutally murdered ...

Alabama has settled 100 cases of excessive force in prisons since 2020, grantee finds

Independent journalist Beth Shelburne partnered with the Alabama Reflector to ...

Grantee finds that Southern California airport fails to warn community about hazardous exposure

Following up on their investigation into the health impact Van ...

Hawaii child-welfare officials’ scant record-keeping raises risks in other cases, grantee finds

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

Grantee uncovers Pittsburgh mining company’s impact in Australia

A Pittsburgh-based company, Alcoa, has been mining aluminum in Western ...

Development is wiping out trees in less-affluent parts of Washington, DC, putting residents’ health at risk, grantee finds

An investigation by Hola Cultura, with a seed grant from ...

Joint grantee series probes law-enforcement misconduct reporting in Milwaukee County

Nationwide, prosecutors are required to disclose information to defendants that ...

Grantees document Trump-induced migration crisis at the U.S. Mexico border

The Trump Administration’s immigration policies have left an estimated 270,000 ...

Seed grant helps reporters uncover apparent pay-to-play corruption in Hawaii, prompting reform

Civil Beat revealed that the FBI recorded an unnamed Hawaii ...

In ‘This American Life’ episode, grantee explores case of Native woman killed in hit-and-run

Sierra Crane Murdoch dug into the case of Mika Westwolf, ...

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