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.
Grantees uncover how a public university courted the gas industry despite climate impacts
With the Fund’s support, Sara Sneath was working on a series about fossil fuel influence in Louisiana universities when she
Grantee uncovers how North America’s leading brownfield redeveloper makes millions by not redeveloping brownfields
The Commercial Development Company (CDC), which calls itself “North America’s leading brownfield developer,” acquires environmentally-impacted lands from industrial operators, pledging
Grantee examines ‘ticking time bomb’ facing Wyoming’s public defenders and their clients
Wyoming’s public-defender system has long suffered from inadequate funding and high caseloads. In addition, public defenders in the state work
Two-year grantee investigation documents the gutting of the Eighth Amendment
Business Insider exposed how a series of Supreme Court decisions and laws have made it nearly impossible for incarcerated plaintiffs
Grantee investigates white investors who mismanaged a tribal cannabis operation in Nevada
With support from the Fund, Judith Matloff spent a year investigating a group of white investors who promised to give
Grantee investigates dispute between rural county supervisors and local sheriff
For A News Café, an independent news site in rural Shasta County, California, R.V. Scheide revisited the sidelining of the
‘Powerful’ grantee book chronicles Indigenous group’s struggles in the Amazon
Journalist Alex Caudros spent six years of immersive reporting and research, with support from the Fund, for his new book,
Grantee’s extensive reporting uncovers hidden police misconduct cases in New York
Over the last year and a half, reporter Sammy Sussman has filed more than 700 records requests and obtained 27,000