How much did ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC grant in FY2024?

Environment$257MCivil Rights$118MEducation$117MHuman Services$111MArts & Culture$105MPhilanthropy$100MInternational$59MHealth$57MCommunity Improvement$54MOther$355M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

pat tillmanhppcompassionatelysteveedreportsinstructional materialsproductive citizens

2019

malariaalmanyc-ejaunder-served nationallyofncdfismusic-to

2020

stimsonucsfprescottbrandeisorabritishwampanoag

2021

pantrymuscseednycpjdgpersonal financeinfants children

2022

pbbdocpuppiesgriefcapitolwoundedfacility dogs

2023

instance uuscframeworkmdifgrassroots partnersclimate leadnotre damehosted

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 1153 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k34 grants · $243k
$10k–50k336 grants · $6.4M
$50k–250k478 grants · $56M
$250k+305 grants · $213M

$100,000

Median grant

States reached

$891M

Total assets

Largest grants

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

02The need

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 (FY17–24, $80.5M) land where the poverty rate runs at 12% — the area typically sits at 10%. 97% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

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 line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.1B · 1211 repeat orgs$266M to everyone else

1211 repeat relationships — 596 still active in FY2024, 615 since wound down; 242 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1211

547

Total granted

$1.1B

$175M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%

+80%

Still filing today

89%

83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $90M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationHuman ServicesEnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsCommunity ImprovementOther

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

Tides FoundationFlorida Rights Restoration Coalit
8× · 2017–2024 · $33M · revenue +74%
New Venture Fund
8× · 2017–2024 · $30M · revenue +85%
WC
Wildlife Conservation Society
8× · 2017–2024 · $21M · revenue +24%

Funded once

CL
CLIMATE LEADERSHIP INITIATIVE INC
one grant, 2023 · $10M · 33% of their budget
JA
JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER
one grant, 2020 · $6.6M · revenue +10%
CHARLES H WRIGHT MUSEUMgraduated
one 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.

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.

Witness Inc

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…

International

Jobs with Justice San Francisco

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,…

Employment

Women Donors Network

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…

Philanthropy

Institute for Public Strategies

to work alongside communities to build power, challenge systems of injustice, protect health, and improve quality of life.

Health

CarbonPlan

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…

Environment

United for a Fair Economy Inc

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.

Social Science

Upturn Inc

Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.

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Gender Equity Policy Institute

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.…

Civil Rights

Asylee Women Enterprise Inc

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.

International

American Jewish World Service Inc

We work to realize human rights and end poverty in africa, asia, latin america and the caribbean.

International

The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc

Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.

Arts & Culture

Immigration Equality

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.

Civil Rights

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.

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 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.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 1% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

1%58/4,005

the rest of the field

11%

206,106/1,815,560

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

1754 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

300

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

709

Early backer (in before they grew)

1724/1754

Grantees still filing

1392/1754

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Environment$257,095,036Other$525,215,187Civil Rights$117,667,185Education$117,042,471Human Services$110,674,716Arts & Culture$105,333,231Philanthropy$100,351,749

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.

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.

Rockefeller Family Fund IncNY88.9× affinity136 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Ms Foundation for Women Inc · The Susan Thompson Buffett Foundation · The Libra Foundation · The Jpb Foundation · Wallace Global Fund II · Novo Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Groundswell Fund · Foundation to Promote Open Society · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Proteus Fund Inc

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 organisation 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

12get no government money at all

1rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: STARFISH ACCELERATOR FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~32 months of operating runway; revenue contracted over 3 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

3 years of Form 990 filings, still active.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 862288129 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on STARFISH ACCELERATOR FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 32 months of cash on hand.
WatchSustained operations— Filing through 2023; revenue contracted over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc?

Find your warmest path to Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines