ProPublica

ProPublica, or Pro Publica, Inc is an American non-profit news organization based in New York City, New York.

On February 28, 2022, Building a Stronger Future announced a $5 million grant to ProPublica to “support reporting on biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.”¹⁾ The three-year grant was intended to “support investigations into ongoing questions about the COVID-19 pandemic, biosecurity and public health preparedness.”

On December 20, ProPublica announced that it was returning the initial $1.6 million it had received “and that it has terminated its relationship with the Building a Stronger Future foundation following allegations of fraudulent activities against Sam Bankman-Fried.”²⁾

The Chair of ProPublica's Board of Directors, Paul Sagan, is also a director at Moderna. He bought shares in Moderna shortly before a huge surge in value associated with a COVID-19 vaccine announcement.³⁾

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• Arnold Ventures
• Building a Stronger Future
• Carnegie Corporation of New York
• Center for Disaster Philanthropy
• Craigslist Charitable Fund
• Democracy Fund
• Ford Foundation
• Foundation to Promote Open Society
• Fund for Second Nature
• Google News Initiative
• Google News Lab
• Heising-Simons Foundation
• Hollywood Foreign Press Association
• Jack Dorsey
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
• Knight Foundation
• McKinsey & Company
• Open Society Foundations
• Robert and Maurine Rothschild Fund
• Robert Wood Johnson Foundation
• Scripps Howard Foundation
• Skoll Global Threats Fund
• William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
• Yellow Chair Foundation