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 series uncovers Milwaukee police officer who was flagged for integrity concerns and lied under oath – but kept patrolling
In the latest story in an ongoing investigation into the Milwaukee County district attorney’s list of law enforcement officers with
Grantees find New York Attorney General’s wrongful conviction unit hamstrung by politics
As part of a broader investigation of conviction integrity units supported by the Fund, New York Focus and Columbia Journalism
Grantee series on evictions in Maine uncovers questionable practices by public-housing landlords
In a yearlong series on evictions from public housing, the Bangor Daily News, in partnership with ProPublica, uncovered practices around
Analysis by grantee shows how regulators and corporations manipulate air-quality data to build factories in Michigan
When companies want to build new facilities, they’re required to assess the impact of pollution on the community’s air quality
In new podcast, grantee digs into systemic issues behind stunning fraud case
Sarah Cavanaugh was a soft-spoken social worker living with her wife in Rhode Island. But in her double life –
Grantee investigation of alleged sexual abuse in New York prisons opens with the story of one of the 1,600 women who have filed claims
In the first story in an ongoing series by Hell Gate and New York Focus on the systemic sexual assault
Grantee’s fight for answers in 1996 ‘cold case’ sparks reinvestigation
In 1996, 36-year-old Susan Walsh reportedly left her house in Nutley, New Jersey, and was never seen again. The freelance
Grantee examines the impact of Trump’s deep-sea mining order on Gulf states and American Samoa
With a seed grant from the Fund, Elyse Hauser obtained government records about deep-sea mining for minerals that can be