The Fund for Investigative Journalism is accepting proposals for regular grants and seed grants.
Donor Name: Fund for Investigative Journalism (FIJ)
State: All States
County: All Counties
Type of Grant: Grant
Deadline: 09/09/2025
Size of the Grant: $1000 to $10,000
Grant Duration: Grant Duration Not Mentioned
Details:
Funding Information
- Regular Grants
- Up to $10,000
- Grants are paid directly to freelance reporters or media outlets for expenses related to investigations, including travel costs, records fees, reporters’ time and other expenses.
- Seed Grants
- Up to $2,500
- The grants are primarily for freelance journalists, and they can be used to cover records fees, travel, research, reporters’ time and other expenses.
Criteria for seed funding
- Freelance journalists and those who are not in full-time staff roles at a media outlet are eligible to apply for seed funding.
- Seed funding must be used to obtain documents or information that could lead to a full investigative story. The journalist’s time can be one cost covered by the grant, but it should not be the only cost.
- Other criteria for seed funding mirrors the Fund’s criteria for full grants: stories must be investigative in nature (meaning they uncover wrongdoing that was previously hidden or unknown), and journalists must be U.S.-based or working on a story with a very strong U.S. angle.
Who may apply?
Journalists are eligible to apply.
Deadlines
- Regular Grants: 8 September 2025.
- Seed Grants: 15 September 2025.
For more information, visit FIJ.
