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 film about police raid on Kansas newspaper to premiere at Sundance
“Seized,” a feature documentary about the police raid on a Kansas newspaper, will premiere at the Sundance Film Festival in
Grantee launches statewide effort to document missing/murdered Indigenous cases in South Dakota
South Dakota Searchlight, with support from the Fund, is cataloging Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons (MMIP) cases in the state,
In sweeping yearlong investigation, grantees probe Chicago agencies’ efforts to conceal public information
When a pair of journalists in Chicago both received questionable rejections for open-records requests, they asked the Fund to support
Public-lands grazing program benefits billionaires, amid poor federal oversight and a negative impact on Western states, grantee finds
The federal government’s public-lands grazing system gives private livestock operators access to more than 370,000 square miles of public land
Grantee probes reports that U.S. helicopters are used to kill civilians in Philippines
The Philippine military is using aircraft it received in U.S.-sanctioned arms deals to target civilians and political opponents under the
Grantee examines how Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis
For Rolling Stone, and with support from the Fund, Sean Patrick Cooper dug into the impact of Amazon’s rapidly expanding
Grantee documents continued problems in Chicago’s newly merged shelter system for homeless people and migrants
Two years after Borderless uncovered inhumane conditions and the death of a five-year-old boy at a city-run shelter in Chicago,
Big Los Angeles landlords avoid low-income Section 8 tenants, despite state law, grantee reveals
Some of Los Angeles’ largest landlords skirt anti-discrimination laws that are supposed to protect low-income people applying for apartments, according