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 lawsuit settlements for misconduct and neglect in Alabama prisons
With support from the Fund, Beth Shelburne conducted an extensive review of accounting data to track Alabama’s skyrocketing legal spending
Grantee series examines misinformation on Spanish-language radio in the U.S.
For the last two years, a team from Feet in 2 Worlds (a nonprofit news organization that engages immigrant journalists)
Grantee uncovers chemical company’s ongoing effort to avoid accountability for toxic hazards in Tennessee
Journalist Ashli Blow has spent three years investigating Velsicol Chemical’s toxic legacy in Memphis for the Tennessee Lookout. The investigation
Grantee uncovers high rate of evictions from public housing in Maine
Bangor Daily News reporter Sawyer Loftus has partnered with ProPublica’s Local Reporting Network since July to investigate evictions in Maine.
Grantee uncovers poor follow-through for program that was supposed to compensate people who were sterilized in prison
A state program to compensate people who were sterilized in California prisons has rejected most applications for compensation, according to
California Governor vetoes farmworker heat safety bill after grantee reports that state cut back on enforcement; legislators plan renewed push for reform
California Gov. Gavin Newsom recently vetoed a bill intended to protect farmworkers when employers violate state outdoor heat-safety law, Robert
Grantees uncover secret system that covers up police misconduct – and ensures problematic officers can get hired again
For decades, police agencies in California have hidden evidence that officers engaged in misconduct and criminality – even paying the
Grantee reveals that Rhode Island school district failed to report cyberattack of children’s private information
Rhode Island’s largest school district failed to tell students and parents that their private information was obtained by cyberhackers and