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The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018)

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024(still arriving)
31
Grants FY2024
27
Organizations funded FY2023
100%
First-time grantees FY2023
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Median grant, FY2024
$1,500
Largest grant, FY2024
$2,500,000
Organizations funded a year
24 to 27
FY2020 to FY2023
States reached, FY2024
13
Total assets, FY2024
$36M
Applications
Takes unsolicited applications
Per its most recent filing; check its own site

How open it is to new grantees

In FY2023, 100% of the organizations The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018) funded were first-time grantees, receiving 100% of its grant dollars.

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $1.7M went to new ones.

50%100%’21’23
RenewedFirst-time

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

’21’23
Arts & CultureEnvironmentEducationInternationalHealthAnimalsOther
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 arriving29$3.6M24%
FY202327$1.7M100%
FY202126$1.2M31%
FY202024$1.5Mn/a
96% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2024.

Health$5.8MEnvironment$1.7MArts & Culture$269kCommunity Improvement$203kInternational$23kEducation$17kCivil Rights$14kReligion$14kOther$0

Where its grants go

Grant dollars by states, across the years we hold.

Which US states its grants reach

ME
VT
WA
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
DE
AZ
NM
TN
DC

Top grantees

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

Show all 30 grantees

What it could do for these grantees

Plus 36 recipients with no EIN on record ($6.5M), not named here.

Where it is load-bearing

Each grantee by its size and the share of its budget The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018) supplied at peak.

25%50%75%100%$100k$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetEarthjustice: $750,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNational Park Foundation: $500,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetScenic Hudson Inc: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKingdom County Productions Inc: $80,000 over 1y, 14% of budgetAmerican Association for State and Local History: $50,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetEvergreen Collaborative: $30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSundance Nature Alliance: $15,000 over 2y, 6.0% of budgetNew York City Ballet Inc: $11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Planned Parenthood Federation Western Hemisphere Region: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlanned Parenthood Hudson Peconic Inc: $6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMedecins Sans Frontieres USA Inc: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Public Radio: $5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnion Theological Seminary: $3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPrinceton Future Inc: $3,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetMarquand Park Foundation: $3,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetWnet: $3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNew York Botanical Garden: $2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCenter for Biological Diversity Inc: $2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Junior Tennis & Learning of Trenton Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSevenars Concerts Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetThe Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetReproductive Freedom for All Foundation: $2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHomefront Inc: $2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetC-Change Conversations: $1,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe New York Times Communities Fund: $1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Way of the Rain Inc: $1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Conservation Fund a Nonprofit Corporation: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShelburne Farms: $500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmherst College Trustees: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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 30.

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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.

Donor Advised Charitable Giving IncCO5.9× affinity7 shared granteesties to 2 of 2Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc · Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund · Amazonsmile Foundation

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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Find your warmest path to The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018) through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

About The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018)

How much does The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018) give?
The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018) reported 31 grants totaling $3,615,000 in its FY2024 IRS filing. It funded between 24 and 27 organizations a year over FY2020 to FY2023.
What does The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018) fund?
By grant dollars over FY2020 to FY2024, its largest causes are Health (42%), Environment (13%), Arts & Culture (2%).
Who are The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018)'s largest grantees?
By total granted over FY2020 to FY2024: Earthjustice ($750k), National Park Foundation ($501k), Scenic Hudson Inc ($100k).
Does The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018) fund new organizations?
In FY2023, 100% of the organizations it funded were first-time grantees.
Does The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018) accept unsolicited applications?
Its most recent filing reports that it accepts unsolicited grant applications.
Which funders back the same organizations as The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018)?
Its strongest co-funders, measured against what their size predicts, include Donor Advised Charitable Giving Inc, Fidelity Investments Charitable Gift Fund, Amazonsmile Foundation.
Where is The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018) based?
The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018) 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 67 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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