The reckonings over race, power and the role of media are forcing a reevaluation among funders across the country. Not only are foundations beginning to ask new questions of their applicants, but they are interrogating their own grant-making, with some even changing their grant review and selection process to cede their own agency and power and to render their decisions more transparent. The shift includes new application questions designed to ensure greater accountability, asking applicants to explain their relationship/s to their subjects and their connection to the stories they would tell. This panel will hear from key funders in the documentary journalism space who are paving the way for a timely shift in long-standing funding practices.