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.

After years-long investigation, grantee publishes first-ever reporting of shootings by ICE officers
When a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent shot a man 10 minutes from journalist Lila Hassan’s parents’ Brooklyn

In follow-up reporting, grantee documents medical center’s damage-control efforts after initial investigation of unethical brain study
After Katherine Eban and her students from the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY published an investigation in

Grantee tracks pesticide exposure in farmworkers across three states
A team from Univision, with support from the Fund, traveled to Michigan, North Carolina and Florida and outfitted farmworkers with

Grantee series takes unprecedented look at unfair treatment of Chicago renters
For a yearlong investigation at Injustice Watch, with support from the Fund, senior reporters Alejandra Cancino and Maya Dukmasova dug

Grantee investigation shows that California cut back on safety enforcement as farmworkers toil in extreme heat; report sparks action
California sharply cut back its enforcement of outdoor heat-protection laws as extreme heat intensified in recent years, endangering farmworkers and

First-of-its-kind investigation tracks land given to, and then taken from, freed slaves
With support from the Fund, reporters at the Center for Public Integrity produced “40 Acres and a Lie,” a groundbreaking

Brain biopsies on vulnerable patients at Mount Sinai set off alarm bells at FDA, documents obtained by grantees show
Researchers at Mount Sinai medical center used a false justification for taking brain tissue from vulnerable patients, according to a

Grantee obtains NYC Mayor Eric Adams’ disciplinary record as an NYPD officer
As part of a long-term investigation into police disciplinary files in New York, supported by the Fund, freelancer Sammy Sussman