· Private foundation
The David Rockefeller Fund Inc
Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2020–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k19 grants · $49k
- $10k–50k27 grants · $551k
- $50k–250k36 grants · $2.4M
- $250k+1 grant · $250k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND | $250,000 |
| PRIVATE EQUITY STAKEHOLDER PROJECT | $150,000 |
| LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS | $100,000 |
| MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND | $100,000 |
| ILLUMINATIVE | $100,000 |
| ACTION FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE | $100,000 |
| CROATAN INSTITUTE | $100,000 |
| WINDWARD FUND | $80,000 |
| THE YEARS PROJECT | $80,000 |
| TIDES ADVOCACY | $75,000 |
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $75,000 |
| LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | $75,000 |
| CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADVOCATES | $75,000 |
| CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM | $75,000 |
| SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS | $75,000 |
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 (FY20–24, $1.6M) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 95% 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
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.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 12% of The David Rockefeller 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. Read by recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 21% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
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.
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.
86 repeat relationships — 42 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 20 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, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $427k 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
- MEMIGHTY EARTH INC4× · 2020–2023 · $1.5M · revenue ×28
- GAGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +486% · 29% of their budget
- MCMICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND5× · 2020–2024 · $955k · revenue +231%
Funded once
- TCTHE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -54%
- BCBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INCone grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +11%
- AAAIR ALLIANCE HOUSTONone grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -49%
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.
Common future is a network of pioneering leaders across the u.s. and canada who work deeply within their communities to create alternative approaches to business, philanthropy, and investing. we envision an economy that has transitioned…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
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.
To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.
To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.
The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.
The Alliance for Collective Action convenes leaders of environmental and social movements to advance solutions for a thriving planet. We advance our mission through the Alliance Center building and community, as well as through Collective…
Upturn advances equity and justice in the design, governance, and use of technology.
Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.
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.
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…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc and the most unlike its peers is Recidiviz Inc. 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) — 6% of your grantees by number, and just 5% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.9% 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.
227 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. 227 of the 261 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 MIGHTY EARTH INC ↗
- Who funds GEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC ↗
- Who funds MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds SIXTEEN THIRTY FUND ↗
- Who funds Georgia Investor Action Fund Inc ↗
- Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC ↗
- Who funds LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC ↗
- Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
- Who funds THE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
- Who funds DREAMORG ↗
- Who funds WINDWARD FUND ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND ↗
- Who funds PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER ACTION FUND ↗
- Who funds PODER ↗
- Who funds TIDES ADVOCACY ↗
- Who funds Alliance for Safety and Justice Action Fund dba Action for Safety and Justice ↗
- Who funds GOODPOWER INC ↗
- Who funds THE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS ↗
- Who funds OFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC ↗
- Who funds PROTECT OUR WINTERS ↗
- Who funds SOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC ↗
- Who funds W HAYWOOD BURNS INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds HOPEWELL FUND ↗
- Who funds BROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC ↗
- Who funds CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM INC ↗
- Who funds Research Foundation of the City University of New York ↗
- Who funds LIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA ↗
- Who funds U B W INC A/K/A URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC ↗
- Who funds GAMALIEL FAITH & DEMOCRACY CAMPAIGN ↗
- Who funds UNKITAWA ↗
- Who funds CROATAN INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds 350ORG ↗
- Who funds COMMISSION SHIFT ↗
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: 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
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 The David Rockefeller 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.
- Casa Inc — 8% 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.