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.
Michigan taxpayers are footing the bill for auto-industry cleanup, grantee finds
In a multi-part series, Michigan Bridge probed how the auto industry profited in Michigan cities and then moved on –
Grantee finds that Pima County, Arizona, officials failed to properly handle inmate death
As part of its ongoing investigation of deaths in county jails, which is supported by the Fund, the Tucson Sentinel
Majority of landowners at Minnesota reservation are not Native Americans, grantees reveal
In a story for NPR’s Throughline podcast, reporters Anya Steinberg and Sequoia Carrillo, with support from the Fund, showed that
Grantee maps U.S. and other ties to misinformation campaign supporting coup in Brazil; report sparks action from Brazilian Congress
With support from the Fund, a team of journalists documented how a disinformation campaign, orchestrated from abroad, aimed to topple
Grantees uncover worker exploitation and abuse in Saudi Arabia; Amazon vows to change practices
A group of Nepali workers were subjected to abusive working and living conditions at Amazon warehouses in Saudi Arabia, a
Grantee probes high rate of suicide in Wyoming’s jails
In an investigation for Wyofile, reporter Shane Sanderson found that Wyoming’s jails are among the nation’s deadliest for inmate suicide.
Author finds her own family’s history entangled with government taking of Native land
In an excerpt in Time from her new book, “The Cost of Free Land,” Rebecca Clarren explores the “blank spaces around the
Grantee investigation of forced labor in Chinese seafood industry sparks federal hearing
While the U.S. has passed laws to restrict goods produced with forced labor in China, one sector – the seafood