States Newsroom receives grants from J.M. Kaplan Fund, Local News Hub and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation

As an independent nonprofit organization, States Newsroom relies on grants and donations to make our statehouse reporting possible. 

Caitlin Sigal, States Newsroom’s development director, is highlighting several recent gifts: 

• The Concord Group of the J.M. Kaplan Fund awarded a $50,000 grant to support a two-day, in-person new media training for our reporters. In October, about 20 of our reporters from state capitals across the country will gather in Washington, D.C., to grow their skills on producing vertical video, developing a presence on social media platforms and building relationships with other content creators in their communities. 
• The Local News Hub awarded a $400,000 grant over two years to expand our reporting on women in politics in five newsrooms: NC Newsline, Ohio Capital Journal, Oregon Capital Chronicle, Tennessee Lookout and Utah News Dispatch. We will be closely following women candidates for local and state office in the upcoming midterm elections, while also reporting on the unique challenges they face in their career and the issues they champion for their communities. 
• The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation awarded a $250,000 grant to support our coverage of changes to Medicaid and SNAP benefits, as well as the rollout of the Rural Health Transformation program funds in our Idaho, Kentucky and West Virginia outlets. This coverage is critical in these states where many residents are seeing drastic changes to benefits and need reliable, consistent coverage on how to navigate access to health care, especially in rural parts of the state. 

States Newsroom updates its list of donors regularly on its website, identifying any donor who has contributed more than $1,000 since the organization launched as an independent 501(c)3 in 2019. States Newsroom retains full editorial independence and none of our donors influence our news coverage. For more information, you can see our ethics policy here. 

If you are interested in making a donation, please visit https://statesnewsroom.com/donate/ or email our development director, Caitlin Sigal, at csigal@statesnewsroom.com. 

About States Newsroom:

States Newsroom is the nation’s largest nonprofit news organization. We shine a light on policy and politics in state capitals around the nation and we provide that coverage for free. In an era of rampant disinformation and news deserts, we provide nonpartisan coverage of the state issues that most affect people’s daily lives.

Leading studies cite States Newsroom as key to filling the void in coverage left by staffing cuts at legacy media outlets. According to one study, the overall percentage of reporters working for nonprofit newsrooms in the statehouse press corps has more than tripled since 2014 and now makes up the largest portion of statehouse reporters in 10 states and the second largest in 17 states.

We run — or partner with — news outlets in all 50 state capitals.

We fully fund newsrooms in 39 states, each with its own website. They are:

Alabama Reflector – alabamareflector.com
Alaska Beacon – alaskabeacon.com
Arizona Mirror – azmirror.com
Arkansas Advocate – arkansasadvocate.com
Colorado Newsline – coloradonewsline.com
Florida Phoenix – floridaphoenix.com
Georgia Recorder – georgiarecorder.com
Idaho Capital Sun – idahocapitalsun.com
Indiana Capital Chronicle – indianacapitalchronicle.com
Iowa Capital Dispatch – iowacapitaldispatch.com
Kansas Reflector – kansasreflector.com
Kentucky Lantern – kentuckylantern.com
Louisiana Illuminator – lailluminator.com
Maine Morning Star – mainemorningstar.com
Maryland Matters – marylandmatters.org
Michigan Advance – michiganadvance.com
Minnesota Reformer – minnesotareformer.com
Missouri Independent – missouriindependent.com
Daily Montanan – dailymontanan.com
Nebraska Examiner – nebraskaexaminer.com
Nevada Current – nevadacurrent.com
New Hampshire Bulletin – newhampshirebulletin.com
New Jersey Monitor – newjerseymonitor.com
Source New Mexico – sourcenm.com
NC Newsline – ncnewsline.com
North Dakota Monitor – northdakotamonitor.com
Ohio Capital Journal – ohiocapitaljournal.com
Oklahoma Voice – oklahomavoice.com
Oregon Capital Chronicle – oregoncapitalchronicle.com
Pennsylvania Capital-Star – penncapital-star.com
Rhode Island Current – rhodeislandcurrent.com
South Carolina Daily Gazette – scdailygazette.com
South Dakota Searchlight – southdakotasearchlight.com
Stateline – stateline.org
Tennessee Lookout – tennesseelookout.com
Utah News Dispatch – utahnewsdispatch.com
Virginia Mercury – virginiamercury.com
Washington State Standard – washingtonstatestandard.com
West Virginia Watch – westvirginiawatch.com
Wisconsin Examiner – wisconsinexaminer.com

States Newsroom also has content-sharing agreements with 11 leading nonprofit newsrooms: CalMatters (California), Connecticut Mirror, Spotlight Delaware, Honolulu Civil Beat, Capitol News Illinois, CommonWealth Beacon (Massachusetts), Mississippi Today, New York Focus, The Texas Tribune, VTDigger (Vermont), and WyoFile (Wyoming).