Custom Journalism & Blog Funding Report

What a good one includes

• A highly targeted selection of active grants, fellowships, and micro-grants directly relevant to your specific reporting beat or blog niche.
• A clear breakdown of eligibility requirements, including geographic restrictions, medium types, and career-stage thresholds.
• An organized timeline detailing upcoming application deadlines, notification windows, and project start dates.
• Actionable strategic tips for each opportunity, highlighting the funder's core values and suggesting how to frame your pitch to match their mission.
• Estimated funding amounts or stipend ranges for each opportunity to help you prioritize your application efforts.
• A checklist of required application materials, such as work samples, pitch letters, and letters of recommendation.

Common mistakes to avoid

• Applying for prestigious national fellowships when your work is strictly hyper-local, wasting valuable time on mismatched opportunities.
• Discovering funding opportunities too late because you did not account for the multi-month review cycles common in philanthropic organizations.
• Using a generic copy-paste pitch instead of tailoring your project's angle to match the specific philanthropic goals of each individual funder.
• Chasing only five-figure grants while ignoring smaller, highly accessible micro-grants that could collectively fund your reporting project.

Frequently asked questions