Our Story
HomeFront Productions is a nonprofit media organization dedicated to helping families thrive by telling stories that matter to them. Through free, digital-first, on-the-ground video reporting in communities across the country, HomeFront examines the everyday issues affecting the health and well-being of America’s diverse families and solutions that offer hopeful paths forward.
HomeFront was founded in 2025 by award-winning video journalists Cat Wise and Kate McMahon, the producing team behind Raising the Future, a five-part national child care series from PBS NewsHour.
For more than two decades, Cat and Kate traveled throughout the U.S. and internationally, producing broadcast news and documentaries on a wide range of issues. As mothers and journalists, they understand firsthand the challenges today's families face, and the urgent need for trusted, solutions-focused journalism to help navigate an increasingly complex world.
HomeFront is one of the first video-focused news organizations to be approved for fiscal sponsorship and provisional membership by the Institute for Nonprofit News (INN), which supports more than 500 independent, nonpartisan news organizations in North America.
Our Values
HomeFront is committed to journalism that is accurate, independent, transparent, and inclusive. We believe trusted journalism is essential to helping families make informed decisions about their lives — and that it must be free and accessible to all.
We have a responsibility to produce journalism that reflects the full diversity of America and thoughtfully highlights the experiences of families historically underserved and underrepresented in the media. We listen deeply to the communities we cover, center their voices and experiences in our reporting, and let their real information needs guide our journalism. When we make mistakes, we acknowledge and correct them promptly and transparently.
Our Editorial Policies
Our Editorial Policies
Our Editorial Policies
HomeFront Productions subscribes to the standards of editorial independence adopted by the Institute for Nonprofit News. We maintain a firewall between news coverage decisions and all sources of revenue. Acceptance of financial support does not constitute endorsement of donors or their products, services or opinions. Our news judgments are made independently and not on the basis of donor support.
HomeFront makes public on our website all donors who give $1,000 or more per year, and we are committed to full financial transparency with our audience.
View all of HomeFront's editorial policies — including our Editorial Independence, Donor Transparency, Corrections, and Conflict of Interest policies — on our Policies page.
How We're Funded
Our Editorial Policies
Our Editorial Policies
HomeFront's journalism is philanthropically supported and always free. Our funding comes primarily from foundation grants, individual donors, underwriting and sponsorships, and earned revenue.
HomeFront Productions is fiscally sponsored by the Institute for Nonprofit News, which accepts tax-deductible gifts and grants on our behalf.
Learn more about supporting HomeFront on our Support page.
A Note from Our Founders
HomeFront is independent, nonpartisan, and women-led. We built HomeFront on a belief that journalism can be done differently: a news organization that puts care first, for the families whose stories we tell, the communities we visit, and HomeFront staff and contributors who make this work possible.
We show up, listen, and earn trust, with the aim of producing journalism that matters to families. Doing that work takes time, resources, and supporters who share our conviction that trusted journalism is essential to helping families thrive.
If our mission resonates with you, we’d love to have you with us.
Cat Wise and Kate McMahon, Co-Founders
Contact Us
We want to hear from you!
General questions and community:
hello@homefrontnews.org
Story suggestions:
tips@homefrontnews.org
Corrections:
corrections@homefrontnews.org
Donations, underwriting, and sponsorships:
development@homefrontnews.org
www.homefrontnews.org
