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 investigation uncovers health concerns linked to airport in Los Angeles
Air and noise pollution from the Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles is harming local residents’ health, according to extensive
Grantees find that ‘conviction integrity units’ designed to find wrongful convictions in New York State are falling short of their promise
New York Focus and Columbia Journalism Investigations, with support from the Fund, dug into conviction integrity units across New York
Grantee finds that Georgia agency relied on controversial lab for drug tests in custody decisions; story prompts agency head to consider audit
Georgia’s child welfare agency, tasked with protecting children from mistreatment, contracted with a company to drug test parents and produce
Grantee investigates 300 cyberattacks on U.S. schools and uncovers apparatus that keeps students and families in the dark
Schools have faced an onslaught of cyberattacks since the pandemic disrupted education five years ago, but officials have kept these
Podcast examines major wine fraud case and sheds new light on 30-year-old murder
Blood Vines, an eight-episode narrative podcast series produced with support from the Fund, chronicles Chris Walker’s three-year-long investigation of one
Grantee traces Kentucky school’s mishandling of students; sexual harassment complaints against principal
Covington Independent Public Schools in Kenton County, Kentucky, was found to be in violation of federal sex-discrimination laws after three
Grantee investigation reveals complex web of players pushing industrial development along Utah’s receding Great Salt Lake
Over the past two years, the Utah Inland Port Authority (UIPA) has expanded dramatically around the receding Great Salt Lake,
Grantees document schools struggling to meet the mental health needs of migrant children in Chicago and New York
Thousands of families migrated from Venezuela and other countries to Chicago, New York and other cities in the U.S. –