Crowdfunded Journalism: A Growing Addition to Publicly Driven News | Pew Research Center

From Kickstarter’s April 2009 launch through the end of the year, 17 journalism projects received funding. That number more than tripled just a year later ... 168 funded projects in 2014 and 173 in the first nine months of 2015... from $49,256 in 2009 and $263,352 in 2010 to $1,743,668 in the first nine months of 2015... number of people contributing financially ... from 792 in 2009 to 25,651 in 2015...
the number of journalism-related projects funded over the seven-year period represents a small sliver of total crowdfunding activity on Kickstarter... the only major platform with a distinct offering for journalism ... Indiegogo... offers categories for film, photography, transmedia and video/Web projects – but does not have a specific journalism genre...
Beacon, was launched in 2013 as a platform dedicated to crowdfunding journalism based on a subscription model but now focuses more on partnerships and matching funds.