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 uncovers systemic failure of New York’s rental-assistance program
Private managers of federally subsidized housing projects in New York City are systematically failing to properly screen tenants for rental-assistance
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 live with John Teixeira, who sexually preyed on some of
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 in Albuquerque, Kent Patterson and Mercedes Mejia dug into environmental
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 new data centers to support the AI boom, and developers
Grantee examines effects of long Covid in children for Rolling Stone investigation
Hundreds of thousands of children nationwide are struggling with long Covid, which many doctors and school refuse to recognize, Eli
Grantee uncovers troubling conditions at DC’s corporate-owned psychiatric hospital
Luke Mullins documented alarming conditions inside Psychiatric Institute of Washington (PIW), which is a key part Washington, D.C.’s mental health
Psychiatric hospitals face few consequences for illegally turning away patients in crisis, grantee finds; story prompts calls for investigation
For stories published by ProPublica, with support from the Fund, Eli Cahan found that dozens of psychiatric hospitals have turned
Grantee uncovers proof that plastic industry knew recycling was a false solution in 1974
With support from the Fund, Rebecca John obtained documents revealing that, as early as 1974, the plastics industry knew its