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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.

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
Fisher-Cummings Family Fdn $5,000 Women’s eNews
Flora Family Foundation $20,000 High Country News
Ford Fdn $260,000 Investigative Rept’g Workshop
Ford Fdn $200,000 International Press Institute
Ford Fdn $200,000 International Center for Journalists
Ford Fdn $150,000 Global Information Network
Ford Fdn $750,000 Free Press
Ford Fdn $3,200,000 Center for Public Integrity
Ford Fdn $140,000 Chicago Reporter
Ford Fdn $150,000 Chicago Reporter
Ford Fdn $175,000 Chicago Reporter
Ford Fdn $250,000 Cmty Media Workshop
Ford Fdn $250,000 Cmty Media Workshop
Ford Fdn $250,000 Cmty Media Workshop
Ford Fdn $200,000 Committee to Protect Journalists
Ford Fdn $150,000 Community Renewal Society
Ford Fdn $150,000 Community Service Society of New York
Ford Fdn $150,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Ford Fdn $435,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Ford Fdn $50,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Ford Fdn $50,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Ford Fdn $800,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Ford Fdn $950,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Ford Fdn $250,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Ford Fdn $400,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Ford Fdn $200,000 New York Cmty Media Alliance
Ford Fdn $400,000 Pacific News Service
Ford Fdn $250,000 ProPublica
Ford Fdn $150,000 Research Foundation of the City University of New York
Ford Fdn $175,000 Tides Center
Ford Fdn $200,000 University of Southern California
Ford Fdn $50,000 WBEZ
Ford Fdn $200,000 West Virginia University Foundation
Ford Fdn $185,000 Women’s eNews
Ford Fdn $100,000 Women’s eNews
Fredrikson & Byron Fdn $2,000 MinnPost
Fund for Constitutional Govt $7,500 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Fund for Independence in Journalism $2,125,000 Center for Public Integrity
Fund for the City of New York $10,000 Gotham Gazette
Fund for the City of New York $5,000 Gotham Gazette
Fund for the City of New York $5,000 Gotham Gazette
Fund for the City of New York $5,000 Gotham Gazette
Fund for the City of New York $20,000 New York Cmty Media Alliance
Fund for the City of New York $20,000 New York Cmty Media Alliance
George B. Storer Foundation $30,000 High Country News
George B. Storer Foundation $30,000 High Country News
George B. Storer Foundation $5,000 High Country News
Girard Fdn $80,000 Voice of San Diego
Glaser Progress Foundation $2,500 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Glaser Progress Foundation $75,000 AlterNet
Glaser Progress Foundation $45,000 AlterNet
Glaser Progress Foundation $10,000 New Haven Independent
Grand Rapids Cmty Fdn $128,000 The Rapidian
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation $15,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation $50,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Greater Kansas City Community Foundation $30,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Greater New Orleans Foundation $1,000 Nation Institute Investigative Fund
Gruber Family Fdn $100,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Gruber Family Fdn $100,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Gruber Family Fdn $100,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Gruber Family Fdn $51,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Gruber Family Foundation $125,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Gruber Family Foundation $100,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Gulf Cmty Fdn of Venice $75,000 Health News Florida
Haas Charitable Trusts $60,000 Investigative Rept’g Workshop
Haas Charitable Trusts $80,000 Center for Public Integrity
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving $230,000 New Haven Independent
Hartford Foundation for Public Giving $120,000 The Connecticut News Project
Health Fdn of South Florida $71,100 Health News Florida
Heinz Endowments $100,000 Center for Public Integrity
Heinz Endowments $1,500,000 Pittsburgh Community Broadcasting Corporation
Helena Rubenstein Fdn $10,000 Women’s eNews
Hellman Family Fdn $5,000,000 Bay Citizen
Hellman Family Fdn $100,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Houston Endowment Inc. $500,000 Texas Tribune
Hunt Alternatives Fund $7,500 Women’s eNews
Irwin Andrew Porter Fdn $800 Twin Cities Daily Planet
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism $60,000 New Media Women Entrepreneurs
J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism $1,081,000 New Voices grants
James Irvine Fdn $50,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
James Irvine Fdn $60,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
James Irvine Fdn $1,200,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
James Irvine Fdn $500,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
James Irvine Fdn $1,000,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
James Irvine Fdn $1,500,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
JEHT Fdn (now closed) $723,000 Center for Public Integrity
JEHT Fdn (now closed) $300,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
JEHT Fdn (now closed) $50,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
JEHT Fdn (now closed) $25,000 ProPublica
Jessie Ball duPont Fund $50,000 Health News Florida
Jewish Cmty Fdn of St. Louis $1,250 St. Louis Beacon
Joan Shorenstein Center $178,333 Center for Public Integrity
John & Florence Newman Fdn $230,000 Center for Public Integrity
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn $300,000 Investigative News Network
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn $600,000 Investigative Rept’g Workshop
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn $500,000 American Public Media
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn $900,000 Center for Public Integrity
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn $750,000 Center for Public Integrity
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn $150,000 Chicago Community Trust
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn $150,000 Chicago Reporter

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