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 examines how a railroad and a tariff war are boosting soy production in Brazil, endangering Indigenous lands
The ongoing tariff war between the United States and China has driven up demand for soy produced in Brazil –
Grantee explores toll of low-producing oil wells in Texas
There are thousands of wells around Texas that produce low levels of gas and oil and are leased by companies
Murder of Lakota woman is spotlighted in grantee’s ongoing series on missing and murdered Indigenous people
Sahela “Toka Win” Sangrait, who was Mnicoujou Lakota, was killed in 2024, allegedly on an Air Force base in South
Grantees investigate emotional abuse in college sports for in-depth NPR report
For a story that aired nationally on NPR, Julia Haney and Elizabeth Santos investigated emotional abuse in college sports. With
In follow-up coverage, grantee uncovers deeper problems at DC’s troubled psychiatric hospital
With a follow-up grant from the Fund after his initial investigation last year, Luke Mullins reported for Washingtonian Magazine that
Grantee sues New York state agency to get records on prison staff accused of sexual assault
For more than a year, reporters at New York Focus and Hell Gate, with support from the Fund, have been
Grantees investigate impact of contaminated water from California prison on residents of nearby town
Freelance journalist Emily Nonko teamed up with D. Razor Babb, a journalist who is incarcerated in state prison in California,
Nearly four years later, transgender Indigenous woman’s killer in South Dakota receives minimal sentence
South Dakota Searchlight and ICT, with support from the Fund, have teamed up for a long-term project to document cases