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Ownership directory
Investigative·Founded 2006·Verified

OCCRP

OCCRP is operated by the nonprofit Journalism Development Network and governed through nonprofit fiduciary structures. It publishes annual reports, audits, donor lists and grant-level funding information.

EvidenceVerified
Control typeNonprofit
Receipts2
Checked2026-08-01

OCCRP receives material government and foundation grants. Its published safeguards and disclosures are evidence about structure, while any claim that a donor shaped a particular investigation requires separate proof.

Control chain

From screen to controller

Outlet
OCCRP
Legal parent
Journalism Development Network, Inc.
U.S. nonprofit operating as OCCRP
Controlling interest
Nonprofit board
Fiduciary governance; no equity owner
Money model

How the outlet earns

Government grants
Foundation grants
Core institutional support
Individual donations
Related interests

What else sits nearby

OCCRP member centers and partners
Investigative journalism network
Editorial and publishing network

Investigations are often produced and distributed across legally separate partner organizations.

Open questions

What the records do not settle

These are research targets, not insinuations. A missing disclosure stays missing until a primary record answers it.

  1. 01Which parts of this ownership structure overlap with subjects the newsroom covers?
  2. 02What formal safeguards separate ownership and business operations from editorial decisions?
Editorial evidence

What Gen Us observed

This is a sample of analyzed stories, not a permanent rating of every article the outlet publishes.

No published Gen Us story analysis is currently linked to this outlet.
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Ownership is evidence of control structure, not proof of editorial causation.

To claim that an owner changed coverage, Gen Us requires separate evidence tied to a decision, communication, policy, or documented intervention. That distinction is the point of this database.