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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
Park Fdn $25,000 Brave New Foundation
Park Fdn $31,000 Center for Media and Democracy
Park Fdn $950,000 Center for Public Integrity
Park Fdn $250,000 Center for Public Integrity
Park Fdn $250,000 Center for Public Integrity
Park Fdn $10,500 Community Service Society of New York
Park Fdn $30,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Park Fdn $15,000 Nation Institute Investigative Fund
Park Fdn $12,000 Pacifica Foundation
Park Fdn $15,000 Positive Futures Network
Park Fdn $10,000 Public Communicators/Free Speech TV
Park Fdn $16,500 Public Interest Projects, Inc.
Park Fdn $20,000 Pulitzer Ctr on Crisis Reporting
Park Fdn $10,000 Raleigh Public Record, Inc.
Payne Family Foundation $4,000 Center for Public Integrity
Peco Foundation $1,000 High Country News
Peninsula Cmty Fdn $50,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Peter G. Peterson Fdn $50,000 ProPublica
Polk Bros Foundation, Inc. $25,000 Cmty Media Workshop
Polk Bros Foundation, Inc. $30,000 Cmty Media Workshop
Polk Bros Foundation, Inc. $30,000 Cmty Media Workshop
Popplestone Fdn $1,450,000 Center for Public Integrity
Price Family Charitable Fund $25,000 Center for Public Integrity
Prince Charitable Trusts $60,000 Center for Public Integrity
Public Welfare Fdn $10,000 Investigative Rept’g Workshop
Quixote Foundation, Inc. $35,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Quixote Foundation, Inc. $50,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Quixote Foundation, Inc. $50,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Quixote Foundation, Inc. $25,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Quixote Foundation, Inc. $25,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Quixote Foundation, Inc. $15,000 American Independent News Network
Quixote Foundation, Inc. $15,000 American Independent News Network
Richard & Rhoda Goldman Fund $250,000 Center for Public Integrity
Richard C. Goldstein Private Foundation $1,500 High Country News
Robert Sterling Clark Fdn $60,000 Gotham Gazette
Robert Sterling Clark Fdn $60,000 Gotham Gazette
Robert Sterling Clark Fdn $60,000 Gotham Gazette
Robert Sterling Clark Fdn $45,000 Gotham Gazette
Robert Sterling Clark Fdn $40,000 Gotham Gazette
Robert Wood Johnson Fdn $600,000 Greater Washington Educational Telecommunications Association, Inc.
Robert Wood Johnson Fdn $375,000 Center for Excellence in Health Care Journalism
Robert Wood Johnson Fdn $5,000 Cmty Media Workshop
Robert Wood Johnson Fdn $100,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Rockefeller Brothers Fund $25,000 Nation Institute Investigative Fund
Rockefeller Brothers Fund $180,000 Gotham Gazette
Rockefeller Brothers Fund $75,000 AlterNet
Rockefeller Brothers Fund $300,000 Center for Public Integrity
Rockefeller Brothers Fund $50,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Rockefeller Brothers Fund $60,000 New York Cmty Media Alliance
Rockefeller Brothers Fund $25,000 Women’s eNews
Rosenburg Foundation $10,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Roy A. Hunt Fdn $7,500 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Roy A. Hunt Fdn $5,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Roy A. Hunt Fdn $6,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
RSF Global Community Fund $50,000 AlterNet
Ruth H. Brown Foundation $5,000 High Country News
S.H. Cowell Foundation $60,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
San Antonio Area Fdn $488,500 NOWCast SA
Sandler Family Supporting Fdn $10,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Sandler Family Supporting Fdn $30,000,000 ProPublica
Sara Lee Foundation $20,000 Cmty Media Workshop
Schumann Ctr for Media & Democracy $1,500,000 Huffington Post Investigative Fund
Schumann Ctr for Media & Democracy $270,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Schumann Ctr for Media & Democracy $50,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Schumann Ctr for Media & Democracy $635,000 AlterNet
Schumann Ctr for Media & Democracy $500,000 Center for Public Integrity
Schumann Ctr for Media & Democracy $15,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Schumann Ctr for Media & Democracy $45,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Shifting Fdn $50,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Silicon Valley Community Foundation $25,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Stewart R. Mott Foundation $10,000 High Country News
Stewart R. Mott Foundation $10,000 High Country News
Stewart R. Mott Foundation $1,500 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Stewart R. Mott Foundation $30,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Stewart R. Mott Foundation $10,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
Stewart R. Mott Foundation $7,500 Center for Public Integrity
Stewart R. Mott Foundation $7,500 Center for Public Integrity
Surdna Fdn $100,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Surdna Fdn $75,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Surdna Fdn $75,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Surdna Fdn $100,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Surdna Fdn $100,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Surdna Fdn $100,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Surdna Fdn $15,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Surdna Fdn $10,000 Mother Jones/Foundation for National Progress
Surdna Fdn $25,000 American Independent News Network
Surdna Fdn $50,000 American Independent News Network
Surdna Fdn $50,000 American Independent News Network
Surdna Fdn $70,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc
Surdna Fdn $100,000 The Lens
TCC Group $22,222 Fund for Investigative Journalism
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation $80,000 Gotham Gazette
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation $160,000 Gotham Gazette
The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation $100,000 Gotham Gazette
The Altman Fdn $5,000 Gotham Gazette
The Altman Fdn $5,000 Gotham Gazette
The Altman Fdn $5,000 Gotham Gazette
The Altman Fdn $5,000 Gotham Gazette
The Altman Fdn $5,000 Ctr for Investigative Rept’g
The Annie E. Casey Fdn $50,000 New America Media/Pacific News Svc

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