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Grant Support for News Projects

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Grant activity, through 2012:

  • $248,524,603
  • 279 foundations
  • 308 news projects
  • 1048 grants
  • 25 states

From investigative journalism projects to ethnic news services, from community news venues to niche reporting sites, new media makers are launching news and information initiatives that are increasingly attracting support from community, family and other foundations.

From 2005 to 2012, J-Lab tracked $248,524,603 million in grants awarded to at least 308 news projects in 25 states and the District of Columbia. In the searchable database below, you can find these grants by the name of the foundation that issued funding, by the name of the news project that received grant support, or by state.

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This database includes funding only for news and information projects. It does not include funding for public broadcasting programs, for the underwriting of documentaries, for journalism training or student news services.

Also be sure to take a look at Chuck Lewis and the Investigative Reporting Workshop's report on New Journalism Ecosystems around the country.

Contributing Foundation Grant Amount Organization
11th Hour Project $800,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Abra Prentice Fdn $50,000 Chi-Town Daily News
Allegany Franciscan Ministries $40,000 Health News Florida
Alphawood Foundation $10,000 Chicago Reporter
Alphawood Foundation $12,500 Cmty Media Workshop
Alphawood Foundation $15,000 Cmty Media Workshop
Alphawood Foundation $15,000 Cmty Media Workshop
Alphawood Foundation $15,000 Cmty Media Workshop
Annenberg Fdn $668,000 Center for Public Integrity
Annenberg Fdn $167,000 Center for Public Integrity
Annenberg Fdn $167,000 Center for Public Integrity
Annenberg Fdn $15,000 Center for Public Integrity
Arkay Foundation $2,000 American Independent News Network
Arlen Charitable Trust $5,000 Fund for Investigative Journalism
Around Fdn $87,000 Center for Public Integrity
Arthur M. Blank Family Fdn $5,000 Fund for Investigative Journalism
As You Sow Fdn $5,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Asia Society/Goldman Sachs Award $12,500 Pulitzer Ctr on Crisis Reporting
AT&T; Foundation $25,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Atlantic Philanthropies $25,000 Center for Public Integrity
Atlantic Philanthropies $300,000 Columbia Journalism Review
Atlantic Philanthropies $25,000 Stony Brook University Research Foundation
Atlantic Philanthropies $300,000 University of Maryland College Park Foundation
Atlantic Philanthropies $50,000 WNYC Radio
Bank of America Charitable Foundation $40,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Bauman Family Foundation $25,000 AlterNet
Bauman Family Foundation $50,000 American Independent News Network
Bauman Family Foundation $150,000 American Independent News Network
Berks County Cmty Fdn $90,000 Community Information Hub
Bernard & Audre Rapoport Fdn $50,000 Nation Institute Investigative Fund
Bioneers Foundation (Collective Heritage Institute) $1,000 AlterNet
Blandin Fdn $80,000 MinnPost
Blandin Fdn $225,000 MinnPost
Blue Cross Blue Shield Fdn of Mass. $25,000 New England Ethnic Newswire
Blue Fdn for a Healthy Florida $10,000 Health News Florida
Branscomb Family Foundation $6,000 AlterNet
Bush Foundation $80,000 MinnPost
Bush Foundation $75,000 Twin Cities Daily Planet
Bydale Fdn $37,500 Women’s eNews
California Community Fdn $15,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
California HealthCare Fdn $2,500,000 iHealthBeat
California HealthCare Fdn $3,700,000 Calif. Ctr for HC Journalism
California HealthCare Fdn $2,500,000 California Healthline
California HealthCare Fdn $5,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
California Wellness Fdn $200,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
California Wellness Fdn $175,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Carnegie Corp of New York $50,000 Investigative Rept’g Workshop
Carnegie Corp of New York $570,000 Harvard University
Carnegie Corp of New York $1,000,000 Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc.
Carnegie Corp of New York $50,000 AlterNet
Carnegie Corp of New York $100,000 American Independent News Network
Carnegie Corp of New York $220,000 Arizona State University
Carnegie Corp of New York $1,861,400 Center for Public Integrity
Carnegie Corp of New York $50,000 Chicago Reporter
Carnegie Corp of New York $50,000 Chicago Reporter
Carnegie Corp of New York $50,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Carnegie Corp of New York $50,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Carnegie Corp of New York $200,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Carnegie Corp of New York $300,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Carnegie Corp of New York $150,000 ProPublica
Carnegie Corp of New York $138,000 Women’s eNews
Caw Foundation $10,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Cedar Fund, Inc $2,570,703 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Central Carolina Cmty Fdn $200,000 BG Time
Central Corridor Funders Collaborative $20,000 Twin Cities Daily Planet
Challenge Fund for Journalism $75,000 Investigative Rept’g Workshop
Challenge Fund for Journalism $75,000 Chicago Reporter
Challenge Fund for Journalism $75,000 New York Cmty Media Alliance
Challenge Fund for Journalism $75,000 Wisconsin Ctr for Investigative Journalism
Charles Lawrence Keith & Clara Miller Fdn $20,000 Women’s eNews
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $125,000 Cmty Media Workshop
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $100,000 Cmty Media Workshop
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $40,000 Cmty Media Workshop
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation $75,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Chicago Fdn for Women $5,000 Women’s eNews
Civitas Assoc (Carnegie Corp) $50,000 Pulitzer Ctr on Crisis Reporting
Cloud Mountain Foundation $62,000 AlterNet
Cloud Mountain Foundation $25,000 AlterNet
Cmty Fdn of South Alabama $100,000 Southwest Alabama Community Network
Cmty Fdn Serving Richmond & Central Virginia $120,000 Connect Network
Cmty Fdn Serving Richmond & Central Virginia $6,542 Connect Network
Cmty Foundation for Greater Buffalo $188,000 growWNY
Colombe Foundation $65,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Community Fdn for Greater South Wood Cty $87,500 Community Information 2.0
Community Foundation for Monterey County $9,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Compton Foundation, Inc. $2,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Compton Foundation, Inc. $25,000 AlterNet
Compton Foundation, Inc. $15,000 Center for Public Integrity
Connecticut Health Fdn $125,000 Connecticut News Project
Connecticut Health Fdn $22,000 New Haven Independent
Connecticut Health Fdn $40,000 New Haven Independent
Connecticut Health Fdn $125,000 The Connecticut News Project
Cow Hollow Fdn $30,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Cox Family Fund $50,395 MinnPost
Cox Family Fund $10,000 MinnPost
Cox Family Fund $50,000 MinnPost
Cricket Island Foundation $5,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Deer Creek Fdn $100,000 Investigative Rept’g Workshop
Deer Creek Fdn $400,000 Center for Public Integrity
Deer Creek Fdn $200,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g

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