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Rockefeller Family Fund Inc

Rockefeller family fund is a u.s.

$37M
Granted FY2024still arriving
203
Grants FY2024still arriving
33
States reached
$9.7M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What you fund
01100% classified

What you funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.

Environment$66MPublic Benefit$15MCivil Rights$14MArts & Culture$12MPhilanthropy$8.0MHuman Services$4.9MEducation$4.7MCommunity Improvement$4.2MOther$0
02FY2024 · 203 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k2 grants · $15k
  • $10k–50k58 grants · $1.2M
  • $50k–250k113 grants · $12M
  • $250k+30 grants · $24M
$75,000
Median grant
33
States reached
$217M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STATES NEWSROOM$9,700,000
CENTER FOR CLIMATE INTEGRITY$3,560,000
ENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT$688,750
CLIENTEARTH USA$675,000
RESOURCES LEGACY FUND$500,000
USA HELLO$494,855
TIDES FOUNDATION$475,000
ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT (ACE$450,000
TRUSTEES OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE$450,000
TIDES CENTER$440,000
PRESIDENT & FELLOWS OF MIDDLEBURY$437,702
ANIMAS VALLEY INSTITUTE$410,000
THE LAND INSTITUTE$396,000
POWER INTERFAITH$375,000
FAITH IN FLORIDA$375,000
02The need
03

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY20–24, $5.8M) land where the poverty rate runs at 14%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 92% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $325k → 17%ANIMAS VALLEY INSTITUTE: $410k → 12%STATE POWER FUND: $150k → 12%NATURAL CAPITAL INVESTMENT FUND INC: $50k → 9%NEW JERSEY INSTITUTE FOR SOCIAL JUSTICE INC: $78k → 16%MICAH 68 MISSION: $150k → 17%COUNCIL ON ISLAMIC ARAB RELATIONS PA: $50k → 22%TIDES CENTER: $440k → 10%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $125k → 17%STATE POWER FUND: $120k → 12%MICAH 68 MISSION: $40k → 17%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $115k → 17%STATE POWER FUND: $85k → 12%TRIBAL IMAGES MUSEUM DBA HABITAT RECOVERY PROJECT: $305k → 17%RE POWER FUND: $50k → 11%INADVANCE: $75k → 10%TIDES CENTER: $223k → 10%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $75k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $130k → 10%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $75k → 17%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $40k → 17%NORTH CAROLINA JUSTICE CENTER: $30k → 8%PREBLE STREET: $33k → 7%TIDES CENTER: $30k → 10%FREEDOM INC: $100k → 10%VOCES DE LA FRONTERA: $30k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $30k → 10%FREEDOM INC: $100k → 10%EL PUEBLO INC: $150k → 8%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION: $250k → 17%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC: $150k → 17%EL PUEBLO: $75k → 8%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION: $100k → 17%TIDES CENTER: $300k → 10%PUBLIC ALLIES INC: $75k → 17%RE POWER FUND: $50k → 14%WORKMONEY FOUNDATION: $70k → 17%FAMILY VALUES AT WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM INC: $25k → 17%INSTITUTO LAB: $80k → 11%FAMILY VALUES AT WORK A MULTI-STATE CONSORTIUM INC: $25k → 17%INSTITUTO LAB: $30k → 11%MAKE THE ROAD STATES INC: $50k → 20%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $50k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $50k → 17%THE INNOCENCE PROJECT: $35k → 17%GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE: $282k → 14%GUNVIOLENCEARCHIVE INC: $250k → 14%GUN VIOLENCE ARCHIVE INC: $105k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

Which US states your grants reach

AK
ME
VT
NH
WA
MT
ND
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
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OH
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RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
MO
KY
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VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
TN
NC
DC
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL

US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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Where the work is directed

The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.

About 6% of Rockefeller Family Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another.

Rockefeller Family Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address

Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.

03Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
$91M · 225 repeat orgs$31M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

225 repeat relationships — 136 still active in FY2024, 89 since wound down; 52 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

225
202

Total granted

$91M
$16M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+15%

Still filing today

95%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementEducationPublic BenefitHuman ServicesOther

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.

Backed again, and grew

  • CF
    CENTER FOR CLIMATE INTEGRITY
    4× · 2021–2024 · $12M · revenue +103% · 63% of their budget
  • TC
    Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund
    5× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +178% · 71% of their budget
  • SM
    SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +104%

Funded once

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
    one grant, 2020 · $2.3M · revenue +15%
  • SE
    Sabal Enabling Disabled Children Prev The Friends of HRDC Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · $550k · revenue +6% · 96% of their budget
  • P
    PUSHBLACKgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · $360k · revenue +78%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.

Crime & Legal
4
National Caucus of Environmental Legislators

The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.

Education
5
The Climate Center

The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.

Education
6
E3G Third Generation Environmentalism

E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.

Environment
7
Environment Next Inc

Environment next supports individuals, nonprofits and businesses around the world on solutions to complex climate issues. we provide leadership, outreach and communication support, grants, and investments to empower leaders and their ideas…

Environment
8
California Environmental Justice Alliance

Our mission is to fight against fossil fuel executives and industries that have turned our communities into dumping grounds for toxic waste, poisoning our air, water, lan, and bodies. We organize to oppose giant oil refineries, dirty…

Environment
9
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide

Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.

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10
Open Markets Institute

The open markets institute works to help people relearn how to use competition policy to build stronger democracies, more just and equitable societies, more innovative and sustainable economies, and a more secure and peaceful world.

Education
11
Center for International Environmental Law Inc

To investigate, research, write, publish, present conferences and teach with respect to global, regional, transboundary, and comparative environmental issues and to make the findings from such activities available to the general public; to…

International
12
Climate Leadership Council Inc

To develop and promote a carbon dividends framework - based on carbon fees whose revenues are rebated to citizens through dividends - as the most cost-effective, equitable, and politically viable climate solution.

Environment

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Berggruen Institute. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.

← shrinkinggrowing →↓ leaning in → pulling backsteadyEnvironmental Conservation …Community FoundationsFaith-Based Liberal Arts Co…Youth Sports ProgramsCommunity Arts CentersAffordable Housing Developm…Addiction Recovery ServicesUnited Way AffiliatesIndependent K-12 SchoolsFood Banks and PantriesYouth Development ServicesLocal Food System Organizat…Lgbtq+ Community SupportPregnancy Support ServicesCommunity College Foundatio…Health Access Advocacy and …Child Abuse Advocacy Servic…Women & Girls Leadership De…Immigrant Worker SupportPolicy Research and AdvocacyCommunity Foundations
the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side
Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.

Your grantees are a median of 23 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.

THE FIELDby orgYOUR GRANTEESby number22%5%<5yr14%18%5–10yr19%22%10–20yr16%25%20–35yr13%22%35–55yr16%9%55yr+
THE FIELDby orgYOUR MONEYby value22%2%<5yr14%31%5–10yr19%15%10–20yr16%27%20–35yr13%19%35–55yr16%6%55yr+

The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 2% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund
1%7/503
the rest of the field
13%
240,389/1,819,062

Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.

05the grantee network

479 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 479 of the 503 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

38
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
102
Early backer (in before they grew)
468/479
Grantees still filing
271/479
Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

CENTER FOR CLIMATE INTEGRITY — $11,860,000 · EnvironmentCENTER FOR CLIMATE INTEGRITYNEW VENTURE FUND — $3,004,121 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $2,611,130 · EnvironmentSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATIONLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE — $2,389,000 · EnvironmentLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADEENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT — $1,898,750 · EnvironmentCOMMISSION SHIFT — $1,429,118 · Environment+39 more — $12,950,867 · Environment+39 moreSTATES NEWSROOM — $9,700,000 · Arts & CultureSTATES NEWSR…ALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $560,000 · Arts & CultureOrganizing Institute South and West IAF — $550,000 · Arts & CultureGUARDIANORG FOUNDATION — $490,000 · Arts & Culture+10 more — $2,339,950 · Arts & Culture+10 moreNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $1,421,000 · Civil RightsNEW GEORGIA …ARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT — $1,170,000 · Civil RightsARIZONA CENT…NEW MEXICO VOICES FOR CHILDREN — $941,900 · Civil RightsNEW MEXICO V…BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $897,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY…ALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $786,000 · Civil RightsALLIANCE FOR…EARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $724,100 · Civil RightsEARTHRIGHTS …FLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $685,000 · Civil RightsINSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY — $625,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS — $484,500 · Civil RightsPENNSYLVANIA VOICE — $475,000 · Civil RightsNORTH CAROLINA ASIAN AMERICANS TOGETHER — $475,000 · Civil Rights+19 more — $4,876,400 · Civil Rights+19 moreThe Land Institute — $2,351,000 · OtherThe Land InstituteINSTITUTE FOR GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT — $2,250,000 · OtherINSTITUTE FOR GOVERNANCE AND SU…Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund — $3,275,000 · OtherTexas Campaign for the Environm…CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $1,245,000 · Other+71 more — $24,023,797 · Other+71 moreUSAHELLO — $2,435,655 · Human ServicesANIMAS VALLEY INSTITUTE — $1,420,000 · Human ServicesTIDES CENTER — $1,228,000 · Human ServicesVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC — $805,000 · Human ServicesGUNVIOLENCEARCHIVE INC — $636,945 · Human ServicesWORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC — $570,000 · Human ServicesSTATE POWER FUND — $355,000 · Human ServicesTRIBAL IMAGES MUSEUM INC — $305,000 · Human Services+4 more — $750,000 · Human ServicesROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $4,152,095 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATION — $1,532,500 · PhilanthropyCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN — $1,028,865 · PhilanthropyMaine Community Foundation Inc — $290,000 · PhilanthropyAmalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc — $255,000 · Philanthropy+2 more — $370,000 · PhilanthropyPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $2,092,630 · EducationTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $1,000,000 · EducationBLUEPRINT NORTH CAROLINA — $500,000 · EducationPresident and Fellows of Harvard College — $486,000 · EducationTrustees of Dartmouth College — $450,000 · EducationAMERICANS FOR OXFORD INC — $375,000 · EducationPROTEUS FUND INC — $305,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK — $261,500 · EducationBerggruen Institute — $250,000 · EducationMassachusetts Institute of Technology — $250,000 · Education+7 more — $1,267,000 · Education
Environment$36,142,986Arts & Culture$13,639,950Civil Rights$13,560,900Other$33,144,797Human Services$8,505,600Philanthropy$7,628,460Education$7,237,130

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCENTER FOR CLIMATE INTEGRITY — $11,860,000 over 4y, 63% of budgetSTATES NEWSROOM — $9,700,000 over 1y, 35% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC — $4,152,095 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTexas Campaign for the Environment Fund — $3,275,000 over 5y, 71% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND — $3,004,121 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION — $2,611,130 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetUSAHELLO — $2,435,655 over 5y, 59% of budgetLOUISIANA BUCKET BRIGADE — $2,389,000 over 5y, 32% of budgetThe Land Institute — $2,351,000 over 4y, 9.2% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT — $2,250,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetPresident and Fellows of Middlebury College — $2,092,630 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL INTEGRITY PROJECT — $1,898,750 over 5y, 10% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION — $1,532,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMISSION SHIFT — $1,429,118 over 4y, 81% of budgetNEW GEORGIA PROJECT INC — $1,421,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetANIMAS VALLEY INSTITUTE — $1,420,000 over 4y, 60% of budgetCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC — $1,245,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetTIDES CENTER — $1,228,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetARIZONA CENTER FOR EMPOWERMENT — $1,170,000 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF GREATER JOHNSTOWN — $1,028,865 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE ADMINISTRATORS OF THE TULANE EDUCATIONAL FUND — $1,000,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINGLESIDE ON THE BAY COASTAL WATCH ASSOCIATION — $995,000 over 5y, 95% of budgetNEO Philanthropy Inc — $960,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetNEW MEXICO VOICES FOR CHILDREN — $941,900 over 5y, 10% of budgetTAKEACTION MN EDUCATION FUND — $940,000 over 3y, 4.6% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ENERGY ECONOMICS AND FINANCIAL ANALYSIS INC — $937,250 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetPEOPLE'S ACTION INSTITUTE — $900,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC — $897,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetBETTER FUTURE PROJECT INC — $848,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetVOCES DE LA FRONTERA INC — $805,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetNEW YORK PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH GROUP FUND INC — $805,000 over 5y, 5.3% of budgetHEALTHY GULF — $800,000 over 5y, 15% of budgetALLIANCE FOR YOUTH ORGANIZING — $786,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetTHE OHIO ORGANIZING COLLABORATIVE — $784,000 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetTRUSTEES OF BOSTON UNIVERSITY — $761,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCLIENTEARTH USA INC — $735,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetEARTHRIGHTS INTERNATIONAL INC — $724,100 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetFLORIDA RISING TOGETHER INC — $685,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetPOWER INTERFAITH INC — $675,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetWESTERN ENVIRONMENTAL LAW CENTER — $675,000 over 5y, 4.0% of budgetWILDEARTH GUARDIANS — $665,000 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetGUNVIOLENCEARCHIVE INC — $636,945 over 3y, 38% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR ENHANCED EQUITY — $625,000 over 3y, 58% of budgetGLOBAL WARMING MITIGATION PROJECT — $600,000 over 2y, 48% of budgetWORKMONEY FOUNDATION INC — $570,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetALLIED MEDIA PROJECTS INC — $560,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetGOODPOWER EDUCATION FUND INC — $550,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetALLIANCE FOR A JUST SOCIETY — $550,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Windward FundUnited States Energy …Amalgamated Charitabl…The Schmidt Family Fo…Rockefeller Philanthr…Sustainable Markets F…The Energy FoundationProteus Fund IncNew Venture FundFreedom Together Foun…Resources Legacy FundThe New World Foundat…
Windward FundDC122.4× affinity88 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Windward Fund · United States Energy Foundation · Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · The Schmidt Family Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · Sustainable Markets Foundation · The Energy Foundation · Proteus Fund Inc · New Venture Fund · Freedom Together Foundation · Resources Legacy Fund · The New World Foundation

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

Government reliance of your grantees

Every dot is one organization Rockefeller Family Fund Inc funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 140%6%25%56%100%your share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 12%
  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
  • Icivics Inc — 13% of income from government
  • Trustees of Boston University — 12% of income from government
  • Yale University — 12% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
  • President and Fellows of Middlebury College — 1% of income from government
  • Columbia Riverkeeper — 1% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
14get no government money at all
29report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25

Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.

05Through Plinth

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPlus

How do I get to Rockefeller Family Fund Inc?

Find your warmest path to Rockefeller Family Fund Inc through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from IRS e-file XML — your own 990/990-PF and the multi-year returns of the 503 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year)— each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III); we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your IRS Form 990 e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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