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Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc
Rockefeller philanthropy advisors aims to accelerate philanthropy in pursuit of a just world
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2017–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
The 1,153 grants below total $275,005,959 — the rows itemised in this filing. The $460,159,317 headline is the total grant expense reported on the return, so the remaining $185,153,358 is giving the schedule does not break out: grants under the $5,000 itemisation floor, grants to individuals, and grants reported on other schedules. Every figure below describes the itemised rows only.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k34 grants · $243k
- $10k–50k336 grants · $6.4M
- $50k–250k478 grants · $56M
- $250k+305 grants · $213M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| INVEST IN OUR LAND LLC | $9,205,000 |
| OMEGA INSTITUTE | $6,500,000 |
| WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE | $4,321,172 |
| GIRLS EDUCATIONAL AND MENTORING SERVICES | $3,200,000 |
| OCEAN CONSERVANCY | $3,127,275 |
| SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION | $3,077,737 |
| WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY | $3,029,046 |
| GLOBAL ALLIANCE FOR INCINERATOR ALTERNATIVES | $2,837,300 |
| ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INC | $2,705,000 |
| RARE | $2,457,499 |
| COUNCIL FOR WATERSHED HEALTH | $2,229,241 |
| RADIO MILWAUKEE INC | $2,184,095 |
| CLIMATE ARC INC | $2,107,530 |
| JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY | $2,080,242 |
| COMMUNITY REINVESTMENT FUND INC | $2,000,000 |
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.
Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $80.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
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
Grants abroad, by region — $165M on the FY2024 return
Schedule F, as filed: 9 regions, $165M to organizations and $253k to individuals. The IRS asks for region and purpose, not the recipient, so no country or grantee can be named here.
Stated purpose: ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES, CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION & ADVOCACY · ENVIRONMENT · ENVIRONMENT, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
Stated purpose: ANIMAL-RELATED, COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT & CAPACITY BUILDING, ENVIRONMENT · ENVIRONMENT · CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION & ADVOCACY, ENVIRONMENT
Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENT · ENVIRONMENT, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, PUBLIC & SOCIETAL BENEFIT · ENVIRONMENT, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT
Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENT · CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION & ADVOCACY, ENVIRONMENT · INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
Stated purpose: CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION & ADVOCACY · AGRICULTURE & FOOD, ENVIRONMENT · CRIME & LEGAL-RELATED, EDUCATION
Stated purpose: CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION & ADVOCACY · INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS · PUBLIC & SOCIETAL BENEFIT, INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS
Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENT, AGRICULTURE & FOOD · ENVIRONMENT, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT · ENVIRONMENT, PUBLIC & SOCIETAL BENEFIT
Stated purpose: ARTS, CULTURE & HUMANITIES, EDUCATION, ENVIRONMENT · ENVIRONMENT, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT & CAPACITY BUILDING · COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT & CAPACITY BUILDING, HUMAN SERVICES, HOUSING & SHELTER
Stated purpose: ENVIRONMENT, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT · ENVIRONMENT, YOUTH DEVELOPMENT, ENVIRONMENT, PUBLIC & SOCIETAL BENEFIT · CIVIL RIGHTS, SOCIAL ACTION & ADVOCACY
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. Grants abroad on Schedule F are filed by region, purpose and amount with no recipient name, so they are shown by region and cannot be placed on the country map or matched to a grantee.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
1168 repeat relationships — 568 still active in FY2024, 600 since wound down; 228 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, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $84M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
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
- WCWildlife Conservation Society8× · 2017–2024 · $21M · revenue +59%
- GAGlobal Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives8× · 2017–2024 · $20M · revenue +327% · 81% of their budget
- SMSUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION5× · 2020–2024 · $14M · revenue +104%
Funded once
- CLCLIMATE LEAD INCone grant, 2023 · $10M · 33% of their budget
- JAJAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INCgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $6.6M · revenue +53%
MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORYgraduatedone grant, 2020 · $4.6M · revenue +100% · 74% of their budget
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
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.
Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…
A long-term, strategic alliance of labor, community, faith-based, and student organizations working together to build greater economic power for workers and community members through employee rights at work and access to good jobs,…
Women donors network is a multigenerational, multiracial feminist network that channels collective power and resources in solidarity with movements to protect and advance gender, racial, economic, and climate justice toward our vision of…
to work alongside communities to build power, challenge systems of injustice, protect health, and improve quality of life.
We work collaboratively to build open tools and resources for the evaluation and deployment of robust climate programs. We share analyses through public communication and collaboration with journalists in order to foster effective climate…
United for a Fair Economy challenges the concentration of wealth and power by using popular economics education, trainings and creative communications to support social movements working for a resilient, sustainable and equitable economy.
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
Gender Equity Policy Institute is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization working to advance gender equality in the United States through data-driven research, education and training, and policy development. GEPI is the first U.S.…
Asylee Women Enterprise (AWE), journeys with asylum seekers and other forced migrants as they navigate the immigration legal process, begin to heal from past trauma, and rebuild their lives in Baltimore.
We work to realize human rights and end poverty in africa, asia, latin america and the caribbean.
Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.
Immigration equality promotes justice and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and hiv-positive immigrants through direct legal services, policy advocacy, and impact litigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Catalyst Inc and the most unlike its peers is National Sailing Hall of Fame & Museum. 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.
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 24 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 5% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 2% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
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.
1757 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2026.
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 2017–2026, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 1757 of the 2,000 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.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
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
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.
- Who funds TIDES CENTER ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds Wildlife Conservation Society ↗
- Who funds Global Alliance for Incinerator Alternatives ↗
- Who funds SUSTAINABLE MARKETS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE LEAD INC ↗
- Who funds Groundswell Fund ↗
- Who funds National Domestic Workers Alliance Inc ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE BREAKTHROUGH INC ↗
- Who funds NEO Philanthropy Inc ↗
- Who funds WORLD RESOURCES INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds STAND ↗
- Who funds OCEANA INC ↗
- Who funds CLIMATE ARC INC ↗
- Who funds THE STUDIO MUSEUM IN HARLEM ↗
- Who funds The Pew Charitable Trusts ↗
- Who funds APOLLO THEATER FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds ALVIN AILEY DANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER INC ↗
- Who funds OMEGA INSTITUTE FOR HOLISTIC STUDIES INC ↗
- Who funds Oil Change International Inc ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL WOMEN'S LAW CENTER ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL NETWORK OF ABORTION FUNDS INC ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK ↗
- Who funds RESOURCES LEGACY FUND ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL FISHING WATCH INC ↗
- Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds ENVIRONMENTAL DEFENSE FUND INCORPORATED ↗
- Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds MUSEUM OF AFRICAN AMERICAN HISTORY ↗
- Who funds Edreports Org Inc ↗
- Who funds APPALACHIAN COMMUNITY FUND ↗
- Who funds RARE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Equation Campaign and Global Climate Legal Defense · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · Novo Foundation · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Groundswell Fund · The Libra Foundation · Freedom Together Foundation · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Windward Fund
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 Philanthropy Advisors 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.
- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution — 63% of income from government
- Center On Rural Innovation Inc — 37% of income from government
- Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services — 37% of income from government
- Corporation to Develop Communities of Tampa Inc — 37% of income from government
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology — 35% of income from government
- Johns Hopkins University — 12% of income from government
- Ibis Reproductive Health Inc — 9% of income from government
- Casa Inc — 8% of income from government
- The Center for Effective Philanthropy Inc — 0% of income from government
- Year Up Inc — 0% of income from government
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.