Since its inception in 2022, the Data-Driven Reporting Project has awarded more than $2.2 million to 59 news organizations. Several projects from awardees have already won national, state and local recognition. Below is a list of what we’ve funded.

Funded in 2024

• Arizona Luminaria
  A first-of-its-kind Missing and Murdered Indigenous People database and map for Arizona
  

• Borderless Magazine
  City Contractor ‘Failed’ Clients as Migrant Shelter Complaints Mounted, Staffers Say
  Sensitive Migrant Data Mishandled, Former Chicago Shelter Contractors Allege
  

• Cityside Journalism Initiative / Richmondside

  Richmond has some of the worst air in the state. Our reporting aims to understand why.
  

• Investigative Newsource (inewsource)
  Pro-Faulconer PAC, backed by developers, pushes a questionable record on homelessness
  

• New Hampshire Public Radio
  Failures to Act
  

  Funded in 2023
  

• AfroLA
  Revealed: The rural Californians who can’t sell their businesses – because LA is their landlord
  

• Grist
  Misplaced Trust : Stolen Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system. Climate change is its legacy.
  

• Honolulu Civil Beat
  Hawaii Lawmakers Have Big Money Advantages In This Year’s Election Campaigns
  

• Midwest Center for Investigative Reporting (dba Investigate Midwest)
  As investors pay top-dollar for land, farmers are often priced out
  

• Syracuse University S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications
  Devastating injuries. Very few consequences. How frequent NY police crashes wreck lives.
  Devastating effects, few consequences: What we've uncovered about NY police crashes so far
  

• New York Focus
  ‘A Waste of Time’: Inside New York’s Broken Jail Accountability System
  

• The Current
  A series: Fast-tracking injustice
  

• VNN Oklahoma
  In Oklahoma, theft of Indigenous land was swift and relentless following statehood
  

  
  Funded in 2022

• Albany Times Union
  When schools us force
  

• Black Voice News
  California’s Marijuana Reform: Progress Made, But Challenges Persist for Black Communities
  

• Eye in Ohio
  A scooped-up side lot and the riverfront parcel that mysteriously got away: How rules written for distressed ‘Rust Belt’ property may benefit a select few
  

• Investigative Journalism Bureau
  Ontario hospitals asked patients about the care they received. Results were kept secret - and pleas for change went ignored.
  

• Investigative West
  Low-income domestic violence survivors face uphill battle in obtaining court-ordered protections
  

• Invisible Institute
  Illinois law requires transparency when police kill people. Many cases stay in the dark
  

• LSU Manship School News Service
  Half century later, question remains: What deputy killed two students?
  

• Monquartier/Monlimoilou
  Télécharger les données Limoil’Air
  

• Mountain Express
  What do data trends reveal about Asheville’s homestay market?
  

• MuckRock
  ‘This is really concerning:’ Chicago air quality sensors show disparities across the city — and unexplained spikes in pollution
  

• Post and Courier, Education Lab
  How a Florida principal with a controversial history became a SC charter school kingpin
  

• The Charlotte Observer, The News & Observer
  Big Poultry in North Carolina
  

• The Local Magazine
  The Deadly Inequality of Toronto’s Vision Zero Rollout
  

• The Real News Network
  Baltimore’s Crime Numbers Game
  

• The Salt Lake Tribune
  Failing the Utes
  

• Underscore
  Sovereign Justice : The growing power of tribal courts is on full display at the Umatilla Indian Reservation.
  

• Voice of San Diego
  Covid Year Two: After the Vaccine
  

• WABE
  She planned to stay in her family home. Then Fulton County multiplied her tax bill.
  

• Wisconsin Watch
  Inside Waupun Correctional Institution’s ‘nightmare’ lockdown
  

• WyoFile
  Withheld

Projects We’ve Supported