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.
Grantees find that New York State is trying to toss hundreds of sex-abuse cases because of typos; reporting sparks calls for reform
The State of New York plans to ask a judge to dismiss 500 prison sexual abuse cases because of typos
Bankruptcy laws shift burden of cleaning up environmental contamination from oil companies to taxpayers, grantee finds
Cleaning oilfield pollution in West Texas is costly and complicated – and bankruptcy laws let oil companies off the hook,
Grantee obtains records showing how Hawaii officials overlooked red flags to place dozens of foster boys with predator
In its ongoing investigation of Hawaii’s child welfare system, with support from the Fund, Honolulu Civil Beat won a legal
Reporting by grantee examines case of Muslim men who allege they were pepper-sprayed for praying in Missouri prison
A group of Muslim men in a Missouri prison say they were praying in 2021 when prison officials sprayed mace,
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