The Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism is an independent nonprofit, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) organization that is primarily funded through grants from foundations and donations from individuals and corporations. Additional revenue is obtained through sponsorships of its events and activities, and from earned income — payments for providing services such as fact-checking, collaborating with students or producing investigative journalism projects.
More than 1,200 individuals, foundations, news organizations and other groups have contributed financially to the Center since its launch in 2009.
As a matter of policy, funders exercise no control over the Center’s editorial decisions, and all funders are publicly identified.
The Center’s first major grant, a gift of $100,000 in general support, was awarded by the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation in 2009.
The Oklahoma-based foundation continued to support the Center with grants of $100,000 in 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and 2015; $75,000 in 2016; and $50,000 in 2017 and 2018. In 2021, the Inasmuch Foundation, which had consolidated the operations of EEJF, awarded the Center $50,000.
In 2010, the Center received a two-year $75,000 matching grant from Challenge Fund for Journalism VI, a joint program of the Ford Foundation in New York, the McCormick Foundation in Illinois and the Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation. The Center successfully completed a campaign to raise those matching funds in 2011.
The Foundation to Promote Open Society, which works in cooperation with the Open Society Foundations in New York City, awarded the Center general support totaling $50,000 in 2009, $100,000 in 2010 (to be spread over two years), $35,000 in 2011, $350,000 in 2012 (to be spread over two years), $350,000 in 2014 (over two years) and $200,000 in 2016.
In 2011, the Center announced a partnership with MAPLight.org to investigate the influence of money in Wisconsin state politics and policymaking. The project was supported by the Open Society Institute. The Center received about $25,000 for this project in 2011 and a similar amount in the first half of 2012.
In 2013, The Joyce Foundation became a major supporter of the Center. The Chicago-based foundation awarded a $100,000 grant that was split by the Center and MinnPost, a nonprofit news organization, to support in-depth coverage of key issues in Wisconsin and Minnesota. The grant funded coverage of political reform, environmental protection and gun violence issues in Wisconsin, as well as political reform in Minnesota. In 2014, Joyce awarded the Center $50,000 to support coverage of democracy, the environment and gun violence prevention. That was followed by a two-year grant in 2016, awarding $50,000 annually to support coverage of democracy, the environment and gun violence prevention. In 2018, The Joyce Foundation awarded the Center a two-year grant of $100,000 a year. In 2020, the foundation awarded the Center a two-year general support grant of $150,000 a year.
The Evjue Foundation, the charitable arm of The Capital Times in Madison, is a major supporter of the Center. The foundation made contributions to WCIJ in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012, and in 2013, significantly increased its support to $20,000 — the largest single contribution received from a Wisconsin donor. Evjue repeated its $20,000 support in 2014 and 2015, and increased its giving to $30,000 in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. It contributed $10,000 in 2020 and 2021.
The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, based in Miami, became a major donor in 2014 with a $75,000 general operating grant (spread over two years). In December 2016, the foundation designated the Center as one of 57 nonprofit news organizations eligible for up to $25,000 in matching funds through its NewsMatch program. As 2017 began, the Center successfully completed the match, thanks to 168 donors. Knight awarded the Center $20,000 in 2021.
At the end of 2017, the Center was awarded $28,000 from NewsMatch, now funded by an expanded number of donors, for meeting the program’s fundraising goals, and in 2018, the Center was awarded $27,000 from NewsMatch. The Center successfully attained its 2019 NewsMatch goal and also was selected to receive an additional $10,000 from REI Co-op. The Center also received NewsMatch funding in 2020 and 2021, when Loud Hound Foundation provided an additional $20,000 matching grant.
In 2014, the Center and UW-Madison journalism school obtained a $35,000 grant that was among the inaugural awards at 12 universities under the Challenge Fund for Innovation in Journalism Education, created to encourage experimentation in ways to provide news and information. The competitive program was managed by the Online News Association and funded by the Excellence and Ethics in Journalism Foundation, the Robert R. McCormick Foundation, the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, the Democracy Fund and the Rita Allen Foundation.
In 2015, the Vital Projects Fund, based in New York City, became a major supporter, contributing $25,000 to support the Center’s coverage of criminal justice issues. It provided $20,000 in 2016, $15,000 in 2017 and $20,000 in 2019.
The Reva & David Logan Foundation, based in Chicago, became a major supporter of the Center in 2017 with a general support grant of $100,000. The foundation awarded the Center $125,000 grants in 2018 and 2019. In 2020, the foundation awarded the Center a three-year grant of $150,000 a year. It provided an additional grant of $15,000 in 2021.
The Center also is grateful for support it received from the Peters Family Foundation in Utah every year since 2009; the Wisconsin State Journal in 2009, 2012, 2013 and 2014; and the Wisconsin Newspaper Association and its related foundation, which provided $10,000 in 2014 and 2015, $14,000 in 2016, $20,000 in 2017, and $5,000 in 2019, 2020 and 2021.
In 2016, the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication received a grant from the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment to establish a class in fact-checking and to create The Observatory website to publish fact-checked reports and information about fact-checking. The Center, in turn, received a contract of $15,000 in the first year and $10,000 in the second to develop and launch the website and assist in fact-checking, editing and distribution of content. The Center is training students and raising the supply of high-quality verified journalism.
In 2017, the School of Journalism and Mass Communication received a three-year grant totaling $120,000 from the Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment to collaborate with the Center on production of investigative reports by students that are published on the Center’s website and distributed to media partners across the state and nation. The Center was paid through a contract.
In 2019, Houston philanthropists Laura and John Arnold, founders of Arnold Ventures, became major supporters of the Center, with a $100,000 gift of general operating support. They also provided a gift of $100,000 in 2020. In 2021, Arnold Ventures provided the Center a two-year general operating grant of $380,000.
In 2019, the Lau and Bea Christensen Charitable Foundation donated $10,000 to support the Center.
In 2019, Mary and Ken Rouse donated $50,000 to the Center from the estate of their friend, Roger “Whitey” Bruesewitz.
In 2019, Susan Troller Cosgrove and her husband, Howard Cosgrove, established a fund in memory of her mother, Dorothy Mae Johnson Troller, a 1949 UW-Madison journalism graduate, to support the work of journalism students at the Center. They are contributing $10,000 a year in the first phase of the fund.
In 2019, the Wm. Collins Kohler Foundation awarded the Center a gift of $35,000 a year for three years to support fact-checking and other efforts to strengthen the integrity of journalism. In 2021, the foundation doubled that annual support, effective in 2022, to $35,000 a year for five years.
LinkedIn co-founder Reid Hoffman became a major supporter of the Center in 2019 with a $100,000 gift of general operating support.
Members of the Center’s Board of Directors, who serve as volunteers, are financial supporters of the organization.
The Center has received revenue for producing reports and conducting interviews through arrangements with the Center for Public Integrity, a nonprofit investigative news organization in Washington, D.C.; WBEZ Public Media in Chicago; American University’s J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism; Reveal from the Center for Investigative Reporting; Sarah Colt Productions in New York City; HuffPost; and NPR.
In 2017, the Center launched the Watchdog Club to enrich members’ experience with investigative journalism, and to involve these loyal members in efforts to transform the Center into a larger, more financially resilient organization. These members donate $1,000 or more a year per household.
In 2019, the Center created the Leadership Circle, a group of Watchdog Club members taking a leadership role in sustaining investigative reporting and the training of investigative journalists. These members donated $5,000 or more.
In 2019, 2020 and 2021, the Center received subsidies (50% in year one, 33% in year two, 20% in year three) to support the salary of a Report for America journalist who is producing an investigative podcast on police and prosecutorial misconduct in Wisconsin.
In 2019 and 2020, the Center received a total of $234,000 from the Google News Initiative to support the launch of News414, a collaborative project of the Center, Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service and Outlier Media. News414 engages residents of underserved Milwaukee neighborhoods, responds to information requests via text message, investigates residents’ most pressing needs and delivers accountability journalism.
In 2019 and 2020, the Center received $100,000 grants from the Facebook Membership Accelerator, to support its development of a membership program and improvements to its digital infrastructure. The Lenfest Institute collaborated in the grantmaking.
In 2020, the Center received $8,500 from the Walton Family Foundation for its role in a collaborative reporting project on rural education during the pandemic. Six other newsrooms participated in the project, with assistance from the Institute for Nonprofit News. The foundation provided an additional grant of $8,500 in 2021 for support of a collaborative reporting project focusing on education issues.
In 2020, the Center received separate $5,000 payments from the Google News Initiative and the Facebook Journalism Project to support its reporting on the pandemic.
In 2020, the Center received a $93,581 forgivable loan under the federal Paycheck Protection Program to support its operations through the economic uncertainty caused by the pandemic.
In 2020, the Center received $20,000 from First Draft to support the work of Howard Hardee, one of First Draft’s fellows reporting on misinformation and disinformation in the 2020 election.
In 2020, Craig Newmark Philanthropies provided a $70,000 grant to the Center for its role in the Election Integrity Project to safeguard the voices of voters. The Center collaborated with the UW-Madison Center for Journalism Ethics, which also received grant money, to produce tools for the public and journalists to discern what’s credible, and what’s not.
In 2020, ProPublica’s Electionland project provided a 25% subsidy of a Center reporter’s salary to support coverage of voting issues.
In 2020, the Center received $51,000 from Votebeat, a nonprofit newsroom covering local election administration and voting in eight states, created by Chalkbeat. The Center works with two reporters and an editor on stories focusing on Wisconsin elections and voting.
In 2021, the Center started the Legacy Society — supporters who have included the Center in their estate plans, including wills, trusts, retirement plan distributions, and life insurance to ensure financial stability and a strong future for the Center.
In 2021, the Center received $34,500 from the Philip Merrill College at the University of Maryland to support a Roy W. Howard investigative reporting fellowship.
In 2021, the University of Missouri School of Journalism provided $4,500 to support internships.
The UW-Eau Claire Foundation has provided about $6,000 for each of three Ann Devroy Memorial Fellows who have reported for the Center.
In 2021, the Fund for Investigative Journalism provided $10,000 for support of an investigative reporting project.
In 2021, Wisconsin Watch joined the NEW News Lab (Northeast Wisconsin News Lab), a new collaborative that provides technology support, capacity building and additional funding to boost local journalism and newsrooms. The collaboration includes six news organizations: Wisconsin Watch, WPR (Wisconsin Public Radio), FoxValley365, The Post-Crescent, Green Bay Press-Gazette and The Press Times. The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay’s Journalism Department is an educational partner. Microsoft is providing financial support to the Greater Green Bay Community Foundation and Community Foundation for the Fox Valley Region to fund the initiative, one of five pilot projects nationwide that aim to strengthen local news ecosystems and the critical role they play in democracy. The Center received $96,000 in support of its joint reporting projects with WPR in 2021. The work is continuing.
In 2021, the American Journalism Project jointly awarded the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism and Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service (NNS) $1.4 million over three years to support their efforts to reshape the local news ecosystem in Milwaukee and across Wisconsin. The grant is building revenue and operations teams at both nonprofit newsrooms to support the expansion of journalism that represents, informs and engages local communities. It also is strengthening the newsrooms’ close partnership, which includes News414 — a project that uses text messages, social media, events and other tools to provide critical information to underserved audiences.
To demonstrate support for the AJP grant, local donors pledged $723,000 in support over the next one to 10 years. Those donors included the Wm. Collins Kohler Foundation ($350,000), Lau and Bea Christensen ($100,000), Barbara Johnson ($100,000), David and Madeleine Lubar ($50,000), Andy and Dee J. Hall ($50,000), Julilly Kohler ($25,000), Betty and Corkey Custer ($25,000), Ron Smith ($20,000), and Betsy Brenner ($3,000).
Our financial supporters since 2009
(Updated February 2022)
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| Ann O’Brien |
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| Appleton Post-Crescent Community Fund |
| Ari Kestenbaum |
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| Aviva Gellman |
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| Barbara Beck |
| Barbara Bend |
| Barbara Johnson |
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| Barbara Melone and Harry Wait |
| Barbara Merz |
| Barbara Stiefvater |
| Barry Halgrimson |
| Bassam Shakhashiri |
| Bastian Family Foundation |
| Beaver Dam Daily Citizen |
| Beth Flaherty |
| Beth Lepinski |
| Beth Wallace |
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| Betty and Corkey Custer |
| Beverly Blietz |
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| Catherine Kurek-Ovshinsky and Harvey Ovshinsky |
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| Cynthia Yomantas and Steven Bauman |
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| Democracy Fund |
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| Dick Record |
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| Donna Martinson |
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| Dorothy Kruse |
| Doug Moe and Jeanan Yasiri Moe |
| Douglas Duncan |
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| Douglas Yanggen |
| Dr. Adel Korkor |
| Dr. Catherine Orr |
| Dr. Elizabeth Neary |
| Dr. Jean Espenshade |
| Dr. Lawrence and Hannah Goodman |
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| Ed Kowieski |
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| Elizabeth Brenner and Steven Ostrofsky |
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| Eric Sharp |
| Eric Squair |
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| Erin Jonaitis |
| Erin Simpson |
| Ethan Pierick |
| Ethics and Excellence in Journalism Foundation |
| Evjue Foundation |
| Eyoel Berhane |
| Fernando Diaz |
| Finn Ryan and Brynn Bemis |
| Ford Foundation |
| Forrest and Margaret Jafuta |
| Frances Hoffman |
| Frances Ingebritson |
| Frances Kerber |
| Frank Gattolin |
| Frank W. Bastian |
| Franklynn Peterson |
| Freda Johnson |
| Frederick Kruger |
| Fredrika Feeny |
| Fund for Environmental Journalism |
| Fund for Investigative Journalism |
| Gail and Allan Servoss |
| Gail and Dan Shea |
| Gail Kohl |
| Gail Sonnemann |
| Gareth Green |
| Gary Feider |
| Gary Nowobielski |
| Gene Purcell |
| George and Mary Ellen Hagenauer |
| George Hesselberg |
| George Killenberg |
| George Penn |
| George Row |
| George Stanley |
| George Wagner and Barb Rasman |
| Georgette Frazer |
| Gerald Hanson |
| Gerald Johnson |
| Geri Girard |
| Gerould Kern |
| Ginny White |
| Glenn Deutsch |
| Gordy Maske |
| Greater Milwaukee Foundation’s Nickel Fund |
| Gregg Blumenberg |
| Gretchen Farwell |
| Gretchen Griffith |
| Griffith Madigan |
| Gwen Hardie-Bauer |
| Haley Henschel |
| Hank Murphy |
| Harriet Pfersch |
| Harvey Kohn |
| Heddy Keith |
| Heidi and Scott Herron |
| Heidi Stolt |
| Helen Aarli |
| Helen Bush |
| Helu Wang and Xiaofei Guan |
| Hemant and Elizabeth Shah |
| Henry and Barbara Nehls-Lowe |
| Henry and Mary Ann Halsted |
| Herb Nelson |
| Herman Baumann and Kay Schwichtenberg |
| Hilda Richey |
| Holly Hartung |
| Holly Stoner |
| Howard and Nancy Mead |
| Hugh Dellios and Cynthia Johnson |
| Ingrid Halvorsen |
| Ira and Ineva Reilly Baldwin Wisconsin Idea Endowment |
| Irene Schapiro and Norman Fost |
| Isthmus |
| Izabela Zaluska |
| Jack and Bonnie Mitchell |
| Jack Schroeder |
| Jaclyn Mich |
| Jacob Berchem |
| Jacob Miller |
| Jacob Stampen |
| James and Patricia Johnson |
| James and Susan Zerwick |
| James Damos |
| James Danky and Christine Schelshorn |
| James Erickson |
| James Grayson |
| James Kleist |
| James Kramer and Shoko Miyagi |
| James Madlom |
| James Marrari and Barbara Carstens |
| James Mundt |
| James Romenesko |
| James Schacht |
| James Sernoe |
| James Van Pelt |
| James Walrath |
| Jamie Scott |
| Jan Norsetter |
| Jan Tymorek |
| Jane Boland |
| Jane Burns |
| Jane Edson |
| Jane Hampden |
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| Jane Morgan |
| Janesville Gazette |
| Janet and Derrick Gee |
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| Janet Mertz and Jonathan Kane |
| Janet Pedder |
| Janice Chernik |
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| Jeffrey Lange |
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| Jim and Alice Leidel |
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| Joan Schwarz |
| Joanne and August Ricca |
| Joanne and Jim Collins |
| Joanne Brown and Michael Olneck |
| Jocelyn Loehe |
| Jody McIntyre |
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| Joel Christopher |
| Joel Dresang |
| Joel Patenaude |
| John Daigle |
| John K. MacIver Institute |
| John and Barbara Matthews |
| John and Barbara Smalley |
| John and Julie Rice |
| John and Lorelle Raihala |
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| John Lawrence Hands and Karen Kendrick-Hands |
| John Marshall |
| John Moyer |
| John O’Leary |
| John Roach |
| John Runde |
| John S. and James L. Knight Foundation |
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| John Wilson |
| Jolanta Jimenez |
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| Jonathan Rivin |
| Jordandal Farms |
| Josef Lindner |
| Joseph and Josefina Beck |
| Joseph Hall and Judy Thomas-Hall |
| Joseph Henry |
| Joseph Mathers |
| Joshua Stearns |
| Joy Cardin |
| Joyce Foundation |
| Judi Kesselman-Turkel |
| Judith Ames Whitenack |
| Judith Davidoff |
| Judith Lorenz |
| Judith Rollin |
| Judith Thayer |
| Judy Amery-Ryland |
| Judy and Gary Jolin |
| Judy Cornelius |
| Judy Newman Coburn |
| Judy Ranney and Robert Latchaw |
| Judy Ziese |
| Julia Richards |
| Julie Crego |
| Julie Hayward |
| Julie Horn Alexander |
| Julie Lacouture |
| Julie Maryott-Walsh |
| Julie Motz |
| Julie Remian |
| Julilly Kohler |
| Kai Brito |
| Kara and Ryan O’Connor |
| Karen and Anthony Eclavea |
| Karen Blofeld |
| Karen Hester |
| Karen Lincoln Michel and Roberto Michel |
| Karen McKim and Keith Nelson |
| Karen Sage |
| Karin Kirchoff |
| Karon Medical Writing, LLC |
| Karren Madson |
| Kat Pierquet |
| Kate Schachter |
| Kate Schultz |
| Katharine Odell |
| Katherine Keller |
| Katherine McMullen and Jim Malewitz |
| Kathi Matthews-Risley |
| Kathie and Laird Hart |
| Kathleen Barry and Richard Sternkopf |
| Kathleen Brazaitis |
| Kathleen Culver |
| Kathleen Drew |
| Kathleen Esqueda |
| Kathleen Golden |
| Kathleen Jaworski |
| Kathleen Johnston |
| Kathleen Lapp James |
| Kathleen Massoth and Marshall Bruce Edmonson |
| Kathleen Mykleby |
| Kathleen Slamka |
| Kathleen Wannemuehler |
| Kathryn and Peter Bissen |
| Kathryn Craffey |
| Kathryn Hatlestad |
| Kathryn Kienholz |
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| Kathryn Prengaman |
| Kathryn Schueler |
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| Kathy Johnson |
| Kathy O’Malley |
| Kathy Rist |
| Katie Harbath |
| Katie, Alan and Ellen Green |
| Kaye Eckert |
| Kayla Blado |
| Keith and Juli Baumgartner |
| Kelley Johnson |
| Kelly Bryant |
| Kelly Kelley |
| Kelvin Fodolfo |
| Ken Harter |
| Ken Paulman |
| Kenneth Lukas |
| Kent Tempus and Denise Sheedy-Tempus |
| Kerry O’Neill |
| Kerry Quimi |
| Keven Wilder |
| Kevin Forsberg |
| Kevin Grasse |
| Kevin Kennedy |
| Kevin Speth |
| Kifflie Scott and Steve Sullivan |
| Kim Starr |
| Kimberlee Wright |
| Kitty Kocol |
| Knight Foundation Donor Advised Fund at The Miami Foundation |
| Krista Eastman |
| Kristeen and Todd Fansler |
| Kristen Durst |
| Kristian Knutsen |
| Kristin Higgins |
| Kristin LeDuc |
| Kristine O’Leary |
| L. Jesse Kaysen |
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