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The David Rockefeller Fund Inc

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
83
Grants FY2024still arriving
16
States reached
$250k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

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
02FY2024 · 83 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k19 grants · $49k
  • $10k–50k27 grants · $551k
  • $50k–250k36 grants · $2.4M
  • $250k+1 grant · $250k
$25,000
Median grant
16
States reached
$65M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND$250,000
PRIVATE EQUITY STAKEHOLDER PROJECT$150,000
ACTION FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE$100,000
ILLUMINATIVE$100,000
LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS$100,000
MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND$100,000
CROATAN INSTITUTE$100,000
WINDWARD FUND$80,000
THE YEARS PROJECT$80,000
CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM$75,000
PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER ACTION FUND$75,000
TIDES ADVOCACY$75,000
CLIMATE EMERGENCY ADVOCATES$75,000
USCAN (US CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK)$75,000
LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION$75,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%LUCHA: $55k → 11%SCHEHERAZADE INITIATIVES USA: $25k → 11%LATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75k → 10%ACTION FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE: $105k → 12%EKVN-YEFOLECV: $20k → 18%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND INC: $750k → 14%LUCHA: $50k → 11%ACTION FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE: $100k → 12%GEORGIA INVESTOR ACTION FUND INC: $65k → 14%LUCHA: $50k → 11%ACTION FOR SAFETY AND JUSTICE: $100k → 12%LUCHA: $50k → 11%CROSSROADS RHODE ISLAND: $25k → 14%THE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE: $10k → 17%THE GATHERING FOR JUSTICE: $8k → 17%REENTRY ROCKS: $10k → 20%DETENTION WATCH NETWORK: $50k → 14%TIDES CENTER: $25k → 14%BROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION: $15k → 17%BROADWAY ADVOCACY COALITION: $8k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
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.

Which US states its grants reach

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IL
MI
NY
MA
OR
WY
PA
NJ
RI
CA
UT
CO
NE
VA
MD
DE
AZ
NC
DC
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 12% of The David Rockefeller Fund Inc’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 23% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 21%.

The David Rockefeller Fund Inclessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

72%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$16M · 86 repeat orgs$6.3M to everyone else

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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

86
135

Total granted

$16M
$5.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+8%
+12%

Still filing today

90%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $427k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureCivil RightsPublic BenefitCommunity ImprovementCrime & LegalOther
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.

Backed again, and grew

  • ME
    MIGHTY EARTH INC
    4× · 2020–2023 · $1.5M · revenue ×28
  • GA
    GEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC
    4× · 2021–2024 · $1.0M · revenue +486% · 29% of their budget
  • MC
    MICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND
    5× · 2020–2024 · $955k · revenue +231%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · $500k · revenue -54%
  • BC
    BVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC
    one grant, 2020 · $250k · revenue +11%
  • AA
    AIR ALLIANCE HOUSTON
    one grant, 2022 · $150k · revenue -49%
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.

04Its field

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.

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Common Future

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…

Community Improvement
2
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
3
Open Markets Institute

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.

Education
4
Climate Breakthrough Inc

To launch breakthrough climate mitigation efforts by identifying, supporting, and unleashing innovative leaders with transformative strategies.

Human Services
5
American Flood Coalition Inc

To drive transformational adaptation to protect communities across the country from higher seas, stronger storms, and more frequent flooding.

Environment
6
The Union of Concerned Scientists Inc

The union of concerned scientists puts rigorous, independent science into action, developing solutions and advocating for a healthy, safe, and just future.

International
7
The Alliance for Collective Action

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…

Environment
8
Upturn Inc

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

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9
CarbonPlan

Improving the transparency and scientific integrity of climate solutions through open data and tools.

Environment
10
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
11
Environment Next Inc

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…

Environment
12
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

227 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. 227 of the 261 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
224/227
Grantees still filing
122/227
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MIGHTY EARTH INC: $1,500,000 · EnvironmentMIGHTY EARTH INCSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $819,430 · EnvironmentSIXTEEN THIRTY FUNDNEW VENTURE FUND: $605,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTURE FUNDDREAMORG: $420,000 · EnvironmentDREAMORGWINDWARD FUND: $385,000 · EnvironmentWINDWARD FUNDGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $380,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUNDGOODPOWER INC: $305,000 · EnvironmentPROTECT OUR WINTERS: $280,000 · EnvironmentSOCIAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENTREPRENEURS (SEE) INC: $277,500 · Environment+19 more: $1,987,500 · Environment+19 morePRIVATE EQUITY STAKEHOLDER PROJECT: $450,000 · OtherPRIVATE EQUITY STAKEHOLDER PROJEC…TIDES ADVOCACY: $330,000 · OtherUSCAN (US CLIMATE ACTION NETWORK): $300,000 · OtherOFICINA LEGAL DEL PUEBLO UNIDO INC: $282,500 · OtherTHE COUNCIL ON STRATEGIC RISKS: $300,000 · Other+87 more: $6,308,450 · Other+87 moreMICHIGAN CIVIC ACTION FUND: $955,000 · Civil RightsMICHIGAN CIVIC AC…LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $630,000 · Civil RightsLEAGUE OF CONSERV…PROGRESSIVE MULTIPLIER ACTION FUND: $380,000 · Civil RightsPROGRESSIVE MULTI…PODER: $348,000 · Civil RightsPODERBVM CAPACITY BUILDING INSTITUTE INC: $250,000 · Civil RightsBVM CAPACITY BUIL…CENTER FOR ARTISTIC ACTIVISM INC: $220,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR ARTIST…RESTOREHER USAMERICA INC: $160,000 · Civil RightsCENTER FOR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS: $160,000 · Civil RightsNEXTGEN EDUCATION FUND: $155,000 · Civil RightsHIP HOP CAUCUS ACTION FUND: $150,000 · Civil Rights+12 more: $705,000 · Civil Rights+12 moreTIDES FOUNDATION: $800,000 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATI…ROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC: $723,500 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER FA…THE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION: $500,000 · PhilanthropyTHE CLARA LION…ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $445,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PH…HOPEWELL FUND: $250,000 · PhilanthropyHOPEWELL FUNDTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL POWER: $180,000 · PhilanthropyGoodnation Foundation Inc: $165,000 · Philanthropy+9 more: $399,750 · Philanthropy+9 moreGEORGIA ALLIANCE EDUCATION FUND INC: $1,005,000 · EducationResearch Foundation of the City University of New York: $209,800 · EducationGEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION INC: $155,000 · EducationINDIGENOUS ENVIRONMENTAL NETWORK: $125,000 · EducationCALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF INTEGRAL STUDIES: $100,000 · EducationCHICAGO FREEDOM SCHOOL: $60,000 · Education+4 more: $109,790 · EducationGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc: $815,000 · Human ServicesAlliance for Safety and Justice Action Fund dba Action for Safety and Justice: $305,000 · Human ServicesLIVING UNITED FOR CHANGE IN ARIZONA: $205,000 · Human ServicesLATINO COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $75,000 · Human Services+8 more: $245,500 · Human ServicesBROOKLYN ARTS EXCHANGE INC: $230,000 · Arts & CultureU B W INC A/K/A URBAN BUSH WOMEN INC: $205,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL: $100,000 · Arts & CultureAmericans for the Arts Action Fund: $100,000 · Arts & CultureAmplifier Foundation: $100,000 · Arts & CultureThe Laundromat Project Inc: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHE NATIONAL BLACK THEATRE WORKSHOP: $75,000 · Arts & CultureTHEATRE OF THE OPPRESSED NYC INC: $65,000 · Arts & CultureFRACTURED ATLAS INC: $50,000 · Arts & CultureSWISS INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Arts & CultureGIRL BE HEARD INSTITUTE: $50,000 · Arts & Culture+9 more: $225,000 · Arts & Culture
Environment$6,959,430Other$7,970,950Civil Rights$4,113,000Philanthropy$3,463,250Education$1,764,590Human Services$1,645,500Arts & Culture$1,325,000

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

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 budgetSIXTEEN THIRTY FUND: $819,430 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGeorgia Investor Action Fund Inc: $815,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $800,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER FAMILY FUND INC: $723,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS INC: $630,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $605,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CLARA LIONEL FOUNDATION: $500,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $445,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDREAMORG: $420,000 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetWINDWARD FUND: $385,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetGLOBAL GREENGRANTS FUND: $380,000 over 3y, 0.7% 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 budgetAlliance for Safety and Justice Action Fund dba Action for Safety and Justice: $305,000 over 3y, 2.0% 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 budgetHOPEWELL FUND: $250,000 over 3y, 0.1% 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 budget
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.

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 Charitabl…New Venture FundRockefeller Brothers …Rockefeller Family Fu…Tides FoundationThe Ford FoundationRockefeller Philanthr…NEO Philanthropy IncFreedom Together Foun…John D and Catherine …Windward FundFoundation to Promote…
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The David Rockefeller Fund Inc funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The David Rockefeller Fund Inc. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 80%6%25%56%100%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 8%
  • Casa Inc: 8% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
8get no government money at all
37report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

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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