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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
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn $600,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn $1,000,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn $75,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn $250,000 ProPublica
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn $500,000 ProPublica
John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Fdn $750,000 ProPublica
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $1,000,000 Mobilizing America’s Youth
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $480,000 MinnPost
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $805,755 Miami-Dade Public Library System
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $3,740,000 Mercer University
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $420,000 Media and Place Productions
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $2,500,000 Manatee Connects
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $150,000 Localocracy
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $26,000 Lincoln Community Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $4,300,000 Knight Cmty Info Challenge
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $150,000 Investigative Reporters and Editors
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $52,000 Greater New Orleans Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $230,000 MPT Foundation, Inc.
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $250,000 Momoko Ito Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $105,000 MinnPost
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $250,000 MinnPost
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $96,000 Mercer University
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $3,760,000 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $41,250 Manatee Connects
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $327,000 Long Beach Community Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $350,000 Local Wiki
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $5,031,515 Knight Cmty Info Challenge
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $508,820 Issue Media Group
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $320,000 Investigative Reporters and Editors
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $200,000 Huffington Post Investigative Fund
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $302,000 Health News Florida
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $250,000 Gotham Gazette
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $250,000 Gotham Gazette
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $220,000 Front Porch Forum
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $854,600 Foundation for Public Broadcasting in Georgia
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $1,100,000 EveryBlock
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $360,000 Adaptive Path
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $302,000 Adirondack Community Trust
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $196,000 American Society of News Editors Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $250,000 Bay Citizen
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $487 Bay Citizen
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $250,000 Ben Franklin Technology Partners of Southeastern Pennsylvania
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $52,000 Blue Grass Community Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $52,000 Brooklyn Community Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $77,000 California Community Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $1,507,000 Center for Public Integrity
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $52,000 Charlottesville Area Community Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $435,000 Chi-Town Daily News
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $400,000 City Tracking
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $235,000 Code for America Labs, Inc.
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $115,000 Columbia University
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $132,800 Community Foundation for Greater Buffalo
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $37,500 Connect Manatee
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $1,320,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $800,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $250,000 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $575,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $250,000 New England Center for Investigative Reporting
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $250,000 New York news games (Gotham Gazette)
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $190,000 Newscloud
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $375,000 NextDrop
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $115,000 Northwestern University
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $196,000 Participatory Culture Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $250,000 Participatory Culture Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $75,000 PBS Mediashift
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $100,000 PlanPhilly
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $1,010,000 ProPublica
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $719,500 ProPublica
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $2,500,000 PRX Inc.
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $127,000 Puerto Rico Community Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $154,900 Rochester Institute of Technology
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $500,000 Santa Barbara Journalism Initiative
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $37,000 Silicon Valley Community Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $242,000 South Dakota Community Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $340,000 Spot.us
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $90,000 St. Louis Beacon
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $250,000 Texas Tribune
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $487,500 Texas Tribune
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $475,000 The Associated Press
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $378,000 The Cartoonist
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $52,000 The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $27,000 The Community Foundation of Utah
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $134,900 The Denver Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $244,000 The Institute on Higher Awesome Studies, Inc.
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $250,000 The Kiwanja Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $2,100,000 The Miami Foundation, Inc.
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $202,000 The Piton Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $500,000 The Public Laboratory for Open Technology and Science
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $62,000 The Raymond John Wean Foundation
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $249,950 The Real News Network
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $275,000 The School of Journalism and Mass Communication Foundation of North Carolina
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $200,000 The Tiziano Project
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $202,000 The Winnipeg Foundation USA
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $200,000 Tides Center
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $250,000 Tides Center
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $280,000 Tides Center
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $115,000 University of California, Berkeley
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $115,000 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $115,000 University of Southern California
John S. & James L. Knight Fdn $250,000 Ushahidi Inc.

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