· Public charity
Rockefeller Family Fund Inc
Rockefeller family fund is a u.s.
What it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2020 to 2024.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k2 grants · $15k
- $10k–50k58 grants · $1.2M
- $50k–250k113 grants · $12M
- $250k+30 grants · $24M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| 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 |
| FAITH IN FLORIDA | $375,000 |
| POWER INTERFAITH | $375,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Where the work is directed
The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.
About 6% of Rockefeller Family Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address.
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +16% for those 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
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $14M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
- CFCENTER FOR CLIMATE INTEGRITY4× · 2021–2024 · $12M · revenue +103% · 63% of their budget
- TCTexas Campaign for the Environment Fund5× · 2020–2024 · $3.3M · revenue +178% · 71% of their budget
- SMSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $2.6M · revenue +104%
Funded once
- IFINSTITUTE FOR GOVERNANCE AND SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENTone grant, 2020 · $2.3M · revenue +15%
- SESabal Enabling Disabled Children Prev The Friends of HRDC Foundationone grant, 2020 · $550k · revenue +6% · 96% of their budget
- PPUSHBLACKone grant, 2020 · $360k · revenue -78%
How this is measured
Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
Closest unfunded matches
The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
Western Resource Advocates (WRA) is a regional nonprofit advocacy organization fighting climate change and its impacts to sustain the environment, economy, and people of the West. As the region's go-to experts for more than three decades,…
The national caucus of environmental legislators empowers a nonpartisan network of legislative champions to protect, conserve, and improve the natural and human environment.
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.
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.
E3g is a leading international not-for-profit think tank specialising in climate diplomacy harnessing expertise in the politics and economics of climate change.
The Climate Center is a climate and energy policy nonprofit working to rapidly reduce climate pollution at scale, starting in California.
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…
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…
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…
Educational & charitable. to provide legal and scientific information to public interest attorneys and scientists in numerous countries.
How this is measured
479 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.
How this is measured
Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.
Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding
A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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- Who funds ANIMAS VALLEY INSTITUTE ↗
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Co-funders
Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
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
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization Rockefeller Family Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Rockefeller Family Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.
- 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
How this is measured
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