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.
Grantee documents risk to Pittsburgh’s public education system as enrollment dwindles
As enrollment declines in Pittsburgh’s public schools, the impact is far reaching. Reporter Laia Mistry, writing for Public Source with
Cleaning up Honduran national police is no easy task, grantee finds
Reporters Jennifer Avila and Danielle Mackey, writing for Contracorriente, probed efforts to professionalize the Honduran national police force and rid it
Watchdog group reveals how Florida’s largest utility company provided dark money to promote “ghost candidates,” sowing voter confusion
In a report investigating so-called “ghost candidates” that aim to confuse voters and siphon off votes, Ben Wilcox, writing for
Grantee reveals how the insurance industry uses complex financing schemes to maximize profits, risking pensions and retirement funds
Writing for 100 Reporters, reporter Lucy Komisar followed her groundbreaking FIJ-funded story about high-risk Wall Street life-insurance practices with a second piece that showed
Wide-ranging series on criminal justice in Mississippi and the South uncovers major systemic issues
A sweeping eight part-series, “Broken Justice,” by the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, in collaboration with several universities and news
Grantee reports that Louisville police department rarely disciplined white officers for wrongdoing, but the case of a Black officer was different
Louisville, Kentucky, police officer Jervis Middletown was demoted for improper conduct and then fired after he aligned with local Black
Grantee reveals pattern of assaults against Fort Worth librarians; story prompts city to increase security
An anonymous tip led reporters from Fort Worth Report to investigate claims that public library staff across the city were
High-tech tool to help prevent student suicide is being used to spy on protestors, grantee finds
For a few thousand dollars a year, a high-tech artificial intelligence system offers colleges a way to scan students’ social