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The David Rockefeller Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
83
Grants FY2024
66
Organizations funded FY2023
35%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$25,000
Largest grant, FY2024
$250,000
Organizations funded a year
66 to 128
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
16
Total assets, FY2024
$65M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 35% of the organizations The David Rockefeller Fund Inc funded were first-time grantees, receiving 17% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $608k went to new ones.

50%100%’21’22’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’22’23
EnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsEducationCrime & LegalHuman ServicesOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new. Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
The numbers by year
Fiscal yearOrganizations fundedTo those organizationsFirst-time grantees
FY2024still arriving62$2.7M32%
FY202366$3.6M35%
FY202275$3.9M44%
FY202172$3.5M51%
FY2020128$8.6Mn/a
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What it funded, over time

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

Environment$8.7MPublic Benefit$4.3MPhilanthropy$3.7MCivil Rights$3.4MArts & Culture$2.4MCrime & Legal$1.7MHuman Services$1.0MEducation$590kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

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Top grantees

Largest recipients by total granted, FY2020 to FY2024, and the share of each one’s budget the grants supplied at peak.

GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mighty Earth Inc$1,500,000412%
Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc$1,005,000429%
Michigan Civic Action Fund$955,000510%
Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc$815,000231%
League of Conservation Voters Inc$630,00050%
The Clara Lionel Foundation$500,00011%
Dreamorg$420,00052%
Progressive Multiplier Action Fund$380,000546%
Poder$348,000518%
Tides Advocacy$330,00050%
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All grantees of The David Rockefeller Fund Inc by total granted
GranteeTotal grantedYearsShare of their budget
Mighty Earth Inc$1,500,000412%
Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc$1,005,000429%
Michigan Civic Action Fund$955,000510%
Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc$815,000231%
League of Conservation Voters Inc$630,00050%
The Clara Lionel Foundation$500,00011%
Dreamorg$420,00052%
Progressive Multiplier Action Fund$380,000546%
Poder$348,000518%
Tides Advocacy$330,00050%
Goodpower Inc$305,000316%
The Council on Strategic Risks$300,00026%
Oficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc$282,50041%
Protect Our Winters$280,00051%
Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc$277,50030%
W Haywood Burns Institute$255,00041%
Bvm Capacity Building Institute Inc$250,00011%
Brooklyn Arts Exchange Inc$230,00044%
Center for Artistic Activism Inc$220,000310%
Research Foundation of the City University of New York$209,80030%
Living United for Change in Arizona$205,00042%
U B W Inc A/K/A Urban Bush Women Inc$205,00043%
Gamaliel Faith & Democracy Campaign$205,0004100%
Commission Shift$200,00048%
350org$200,00020%
Croatan Institute$200,00028%
Unkitawa$200,00023%
Critical Resistance$190,00036%
Fair Count Inc$185,00041%
The Center for Cultural Power$180,00041%
The Years Project Inc$165,00025%
Goodnation Foundation Inc$165,00022%
Restoreher Usamerica Inc$160,00037%
Center for Constitutional Rights$160,00021%
New York Foundation$155,00021%
Nextgen Education Fund$155,00031%
George Mason University Foundation Inc$155,00030%
Salzburg Global Seminar Inc$150,00031%
Forum for the Future US Inc$150,00033%
Hip Hop Caucus Action Fund$150,000222%
Air Alliance Houston$150,00014%
Climate Equity Action Fund$130,000157%
Beautiful Trouble Inc$125,000222%
Indigenous Environmental Network$125,00021%
Vera Institute of Justice Inc$125,00030%
New Left Accelerator$115,00033%
Business Capacity Development Alliance Inc$106,800216%
Environmental Integrity Project$100,00021%
State Voices$100,00010%
New York Shakespeare Festival$100,00010%
Rhode Island Community Food Bank Association$100,00010%
Americans for the Arts Action Fund$100,000229%
Cultural Engagement Laboratory$100,0001n/a
Illuminative Inc$100,00010%
Medecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc$100,00010%
Worth Rises Inc$100,00022%
Amplifier Foundation$100,00024%
California Institute of Integral Studies$100,00010%
The Voter Project$100,00011%
Urban Justice Center$100,00020%
Casa Inc$95,00020%
Sustainable Markets Foundation$90,00020%
Common Defense Education Fund Inc$85,50032%
The Marshall Project Inc$83,00011%
The Laundromat Project Inc$75,00013%
League of Conservation Voters Education Fund$75,00010%
The Ocean Foundation$75,00010%
Sierra Club Foundation$75,00020%
Western Organization of Resource Councils Education Project$75,00011%
US Climate Action Network$75,00012%
Arizona Center for Empowerment$75,00021%
The National Black Theatre Workshop$75,00013%
Community Funds Inc$70,0001n/a
Theatre of the Oppressed NYC Inc$65,00026%
A Climate to Thrive$60,000212%
Chicago Freedom School$60,00023%
Jackson Hole Center for Global Affairs Inc$60,000210%
Count Mi Vote Education Fund$50,00013%
Detention Watch Network$50,00011%
American Farmland Trust$50,00010%
The Promise of Justice Initiative$50,00021%
Olneyville Housing Corporation$50,00011%
Progress Michigan Education Inc$50,00010%
The Bail Project Inc$50,00010%
Fractured Atlas Inc$50,00010%
Minnesota Youth Collective$50,00018%
Swiss Institute$50,00012%
Organize Pennsylvania$50,00011%
Jewish Council for Public Affairs Inc$50,00012%
Abolitionist Law Center$50,00015%
Maine Coast Heritage Trust$50,00010%
Civil Liberties Defense Center$50,00018%
The Niskanen Center Inc$50,00011%
Public Policy and Education Fund of New York Inc$50,00011%
State Democracy Project$50,00010%
Girl Be Heard Institute$50,00014%
Make the Road Action Inc$50,00011%
Conservation Colorado$50,00011%
Good Shepherd Food Bank$50,00010%
Bay Mills Indian Community$50,0001n/a
National Conference on Citizenship$50,00011%
The Institute on Science for Global Policy$50,000113%
Forward Mt Foundation$50,00014%
Jolt Action Inc$50,00013%
Hip Hop Caucus Education Fund$50,00010%
Border Workers United$50,000112%
A Better Big Sky$50,00013%
Ground Game Fund$41,50012%
Sepsis Alliance Inc$40,35012%
In Our Backyards Inc$40,00020%
Movement Strategy Center$40,00010%
Confluence Philanthropy Inc$39,00041%
Minister Elders and Deacons of the Reformed Protestant Dutch Church O$35,0001n/a
New York Foundation for the Arts Inc$35,00010%
Chashama Inc$35,00012%
Texas Prisons Community Advocates Inc$35,000235%
Solar Responders Inc$33,75015%
Environmental Grantmakers Association$32,50050%
Victory Gardens Theater$30,00011%
Momentum Community Inc$27,50012%
CONSULTATIVE GROUP ON BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC Biodiversity Funders Grp$25,00041%
Amos House$25,00010%
Commission Shift Action$25,000125%
The Rhode Island Free Clinic Inc$25,00011%
Grantmakers in the Arts$25,00041%
People's Theatre Project Inc$25,00021%
Rhode Island Public Radio$25,00011%
Abbe Museum$25,00012%
Bold Education Fund Inc$25,0001n/a
Scheherazade Initiatives USA Inc$25,0001n/a
Harness Inc$25,0001n/a
Women of Color Advancing Peace and Security Wcaps$25,00014%
Fountain House Inc$25,00010%
The Hadanou Collective$25,00010%
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists$25,00011%
Grassroots Leadership Inc$25,00011%
Crossroads Rhode Island$25,00010%
Natural Resources Council of Maine Inc$25,00011%
Florida Rights Restoration Coalition$25,00010%
Struggle for Miamis Affordable and Sustainable Housing Incorporated$25,00015%
Project on Government Oversight Inc$25,00010%
Meals on Wheels of Ri Inc$25,00010%
Broadway Advocacy Coalition Inc$23,00023%
Philanthropy New York Inc$22,55040%
Start Empowerment Inc$20,00016%
Look2justice$20,00013%
Ekvnv Yefolecvlke$20,00010%
Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund$20,00011%
The Synergos Institute Inc$20,00020%
Meridian Institute$20,00010%
Connective$20,00011%
Foundation for Contemporary Arts Inc$20,00010%
Rvc Seattle$20,00010%
Just Detention International$20,00011%
Center For Justice And Human Dignity$20,00013%
La Pena Inc$20,00016%
Pen American Center Inc$20,00010%
Friends of Little Compton Wellness Center$20,000114%
The Gathering for Justice Inc$17,50021%
Montclair Early Childhood Corp Montclair Community Pre-K$17,29030%
Alternate RootsInc$15,00010%
Drug Policy Alliance$15,00010%
Woonasquatucket Valley Community Build Inc$15,00011%
National Center for Family Philanthropy Inc$14,00030%
Peacetech Lab Inc$12,00011%
Alliance of Families for Justice Inc$12,00011%
New Hour for Women & Children Li I$10,00011%
Louisiana Bucket Brigade$10,00010%
Recidiviz Inc$10,00010%
National Religious Campaign Against Torture$10,00010%
More Art Inc$10,00013%
Woonasquatucket River Watershed$10,00011%
Ella Baker Center for Human Rights$10,00010%
The Advent School Corporation$10,00010%
Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc$10,00010%
Re-Entry Rocks Inc$10,00017%
Found Sound Nation Inc$10,00014%
Pioneer Works Art Foundation$10,00010%
Poetry Society of America$10,00011%
Our Climate Education Fund$10,00011%
Earth Day Network Inc$10,00010%
Artist Communities Alliance$10,00011%
Legal Action Center of the City of New York Inc$10,00010%
Not an Alternative Inc$10,00011%
Boston College High School$10,0001n/a
Transgender Law Center$10,00010%
NEO Philanthropy Inc$7,00010%
New Stage Performing Arts Center Inc$5,00012%
Wayfarer Foundation$5,00010%
Racial Justice Now$5,0001n/a
Tamizdat Project Inc$5,00014%
National Committee for Responsive Philanthropy$4,00020%
Fund for Constitutional Government$3,50010%
University of Orange Inc$2,50011%
Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance Inc$2,20011%
The Jed Foundation$2,05010%
Neighborhood Funders Group$2,00010%
International Rescue Committee INC$1,75010%
Peak Grantmaking Inc$1,25010%
Rector Church Wardens & Vstry Mmbrs of Chch of St Luke in Fields of Ny$1,0001n/a
Share Our Strength$1,00010%
Reproductive Freedom for All Foundation$75020%
Women for Afghan Women Inc$60020%
Center for Disaster Philanthropy Inc$45020%
Nmdp Foundation$31020%
Friends of the Brooklyn Latin School Inc$2501n/a
The Myelodysplastic Syndromes Foundation$22620%
Texans Care For Children Inc$20010%
Allgo$14020%
Metropolitan Young Men's Christian Association of the Oranges Inc$12510%
World Central Kitchen Inc$10010%
Hispanic Federation Inc$10010%
Brooklyn Tech Alumni Foundation Inc$10010%
Pancreatic Cancer Action Network Inc$10010%
Social Tees Animal Rescue Foundation In$2510%

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 26 recipients with no EIN on record ($2.6M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

The David Rockefeller Fund Inc supplied at least a quarter of the budget for 7 of its grantees at some point. The chart plots its 200 largest grantees; load-bearing ones sit top left.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetMighty Earth Inc: $1,500,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetGeorgia Alliance Education Fund Inc: $1,005,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetMichigan Civic Action Fund: $955,000 over 5y, 9.5% of budgetGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc: $815,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetLeague of Conservation Voters Inc: $630,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Clara Lionel Foundation: $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDreamorg: $420,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetProgressive Multiplier Action Fund: $380,000 over 5y, 46% of budgetPoder: $348,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetTides Advocacy: $330,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGoodpower Inc: $305,000 over 3y, 16% of budgetThe Council on Strategic Risks: $300,000 over 2y, 6.5% of budgetOficina Legal del Pueblo Unido Inc: $282,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetProtect Our Winters: $280,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetSocial and Environmental Entrepreneurs (See) Inc: $277,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetW Haywood Burns Institute: $255,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetBvm Capacity Building Institute Inc: $250,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetBrooklyn Arts Exchange Inc: $230,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetCenter for Artistic Activism Inc: $220,000 over 3y, 9.6% of budgetResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $209,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLiving United for Change in Arizona: $205,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetU B W Inc A/K/A Urban Bush Women Inc: $205,000 over 4y, 2.8% of budgetGamaliel Faith & Democracy Campaign: $205,000 over 4y, 100% of budgetCommission Shift: $200,000 over 4y, 7.8% of budget350org: $200,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCroatan Institute: $200,000 over 2y, 8.3% of budgetUnkitawa: $200,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetCritical Resistance: $190,000 over 3y, 5.9% of budgetFair Count Inc: $185,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetThe Center for Cultural Power: $180,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetThe Years Project Inc: $165,000 over 2y, 5.4% of budgetGoodnation Foundation Inc: $165,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRestoreher Usamerica Inc: $160,000 over 3y, 7.1% of budgetCenter for Constitutional Rights: $160,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNew York Foundation: $155,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetNextgen Education Fund: $155,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGeorge Mason University Foundation Inc: $155,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSalzburg Global Seminar Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetForum for the Future US Inc: $150,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetHip Hop Caucus Action Fund: $150,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetAir Alliance Houston: $150,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetClimate Equity Action Fund: $130,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetBeautiful Trouble Inc: $125,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetIndigenous Environmental Network: $125,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetVera Institute of Justice Inc: $125,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetNew Left Accelerator: $115,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetBusiness Capacity Development Alliance Inc: $106,800 over 2y, 16% of budgetEnvironmental Integrity Project: $100,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budget

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How this is measured
Share of budget is the funder’s grant in a year over the grantee’s total revenue that year, at its highest across the years we hold; revenue is from all sources. Only grantees confirmed against their own filings, whose grants do not exceed their revenue, are plotted: the largest 200.

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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.

Amalgamated Charitable Foundation IncDC52× affinity44 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc · New Venture Fund · Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc · Rockefeller Family Fund Inc · Tides Foundation · The Ford Foundation · Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Inc · NEO Philanthropy Inc · Freedom Together Foundation · John D and Catherine T Macarthur Foundation · Windward Fund · Foundation to Promote Open Society

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

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About The David Rockefeller Fund Inc

How much does The David Rockefeller Fund Inc give?
The David Rockefeller Fund Inc reported 83 grants totaling $3,279,650 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 66 and 128 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The David Rockefeller Fund Inc fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Environment (31%), Public Benefit (16%), Philanthropy (14%).
Who are The David Rockefeller Fund Inc's largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Mighty Earth Inc ($1.5M), Georgia Alliance Education Fund Inc ($1.0M), Michigan Civic Action Fund ($955k).
Does The David Rockefeller Fund Inc fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 35% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The David Rockefeller Fund Inc accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The David Rockefeller Fund Inc?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Amalgamated Charitable Foundation Inc, New Venture Fund, Rockefeller Brothers Fund Inc.
Where is The David Rockefeller Fund Inc based?
The David Rockefeller Fund Inc is based in NY.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 261 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

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

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