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The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018) at a glance

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The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018)

Its FY2024 filing reports that it accepted unsolicited grant applications.

$3.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
31
Grants FY2024still arriving
13
States reached
$2.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
0196% 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
02FY2024 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k26 grants · $45k
  • $10k–50k1 grant · $20k
  • $50k–250k1 grant · $50k
  • $250k+3 grants · $3.5M
$1,500
Median grant
13
States reached
$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER$2,500,000
NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION$500,500
EARTHJUSTICE$500,000
SCENIC HUDSON INC$50,000
EVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE$20,000
NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC$6,000
SUNDANCE NATURE ALLIANCE$5,000
PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC$3,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC$3,000
FOS FEMINISTA$3,000
NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN$2,500
NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO$2,500
MARQUAND PARK FOUNDATION$2,000
INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE$2,000
PRINCETON FUTURE$2,000
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.

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Dollar for dollar, its grants (FY17–24) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 41% of its dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Its grants spread fairly evenly across need levels.

area typical 11%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $2.7M → 10%EARTHJUSTICE: $500k → 10%SCENIC HUDSON INC: $50k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $3k → 11%FOS FEMINISTA: $3k → 17%NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN: $3k → 28%THE WAY OF THE RAIN: $1k → 12%NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $501k → 14%WMNR FINE ARTS RADIO: $1k → 9%AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE & LOCAL HISTORY: $50k → 14%SUNDANCE NATURE ALLIANCE: $10k → 8%MARQUAND PARK FOUNDATION: $2k → 11%KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS: $80k → 12%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $567k → 10%EARTHJUSTICE: $250k → 10%SCENIC HUDSON INC: $50k → 9%PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $3k → 11%FOS FEMINISTA: $3k → 17%NARAL PRO-CHOICE AMERICA FOUNDATION: $2k → 14%WMNR FINE ARTS RADIO: $1k → 9%SUNDANCE NATURE ALLIANCE: $5k → 8%MARQUAND PARK FOUNDATION: $1k → 11%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $1.8M → 10%MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $1k → 12%UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $3k → 17%HOMEFRONT: $1k → 11%SEE STATEMENT ATTACHED: $375k → 10%MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $1k → 12%NJTL OF TRENTON: $1k → 11%HOMEFRONT: $1k → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC: $3k → 17%NJTL OF TRENTON: $1k → 11%NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $6k → 17%PRINCETON FUTURE: $2k → 11%SEVENARS CONCERTS INC: $1k → 17%PRINCETON FUTURE: $1k → 11%DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS USA INC: $2k → 17%C-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS: $1k → 11%NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $5k → 17%SEVENARS CONCERTS INC: $1k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $2.5M → 17%THIRTEENWNET NEW YORK: $2k → 17%MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $1.3M → 17%THIRTEENWNET NEW YORK: $2k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $3k → 17%INTERNATIONAL RESCUE COMMITTEE: $2k → 17%NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $3k → 17%NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO: $3k → 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

ME
VT
WA
NY
MA
NJ
CT
CA
UT
VA
DE
AZ
NM
TN
DC
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.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

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

88%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$7.1M · 40 repeat orgs$989k to everyone else

40 repeat relationships: 22 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
19

Total granted

$7.1M
$482k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+20%

Still filing today

48%
26%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $507k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

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

’20’21’23’24
EnvironmentArts & CultureEducationInternationalHealthAnimalsOther
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

  • EARTHJUSTICE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $750k · revenue +36%
  • SN
    SUNDANCE NATURE ALLIANCE
    2× · 2023–2024 · $15k · revenue +71%
  • NY
    NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC
    2× · 2023–2024 · $11k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • OS
    Open Space Institute (7470)
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • NR
    Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc. (7026)
    one grant, 2020 · $100k
  • KC
    KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS INC
    one grant, 2023 · $80k · revenue +20%
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.

1
World Wildlife Fund Inc

Wwf's mission is to conserve nature and reduce the most pressing threats to the diversity of life on earth. (continued on schedule o)

Environment
2
American Museum of Natural History

The museum's mission statement is: "to discover, interpret, and disseminate - through scientific research and education - knowledge about human cultures, the natural world, and the universe."

Arts & Culture
3
Island Press

Island press creates, publishes and promotes powerful ideas and solutions that help transform local, national, and global environmental practices and policies in order to better ecological and human well-being.

Environment
4
The Trustees of Princeton University

Research, education and general - princeton university is a private not-for-profit, non-sectarian institution of higher learning with approximately 5,700 undergraduate and 3,300 graduate students. 2,500 students graduated in the 2024-2025…

Education
5
New Jersey Conservation Foundation

Recognizing that a healthy environment is critical to the well-being and survival of all living things, new jersey conservation foundation is devoted to preserving land and protecting natural resources throughout new jersey's (continued on…

Environment
6
Public Media Nj Inc

To bring quality public television programs and resources to communities throughout new jersey and its tri-state neighbors. its content, both on-air and online, aims to reflect the diverse

Arts & Culture
7
Hudson River Foundation for Science and Environmental Research Inc

The mission of the hudson river foundation is to inspire and inform action through science and engaging people to enhance the hudson river, estuary, and watershed (see schedule o).

Environment
8
Property and Environment Research Center

Perc is dedicated to advancing conservation through markets, incentives, property rights, and partnerships.

Public Benefit
9
Manhattanville University

To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.

Education
10
Food and Environment Reporting Network Inc

Fern seeks to make the food system more sustainable and equitable through powerful journalism and storytelling.

Food & Nutrition
11
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
12
Institute for Advanced Study - Louis Bamberger & Mrs Felix Fuld Foundation

The institute for advanced study (the institute) is one of the world's leading centers for theoretical research and intellectual inquiry. see schedule o.

Science & Tech
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Park Foundation; the most unlike its peers is International Rescue Committee Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
04the grantee network

31 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. 31 of the 67 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
31/31
Grantees still filing
18/31
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

MEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTER: $3,750,000 · OtherMEMORIAL SLOAN-KETTERING CANCER CENTERMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (6398): $2,000,000 · OtherMemorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center (6398)NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION: $500,500 · OtherNATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION+38 more: $727,500 · Other+38 moreEARTHJUSTICE: $750,000 · EnvironmentEARTHJUSTICEScenic Hudson Inc: $100,000 · EnvironmentScenic Hudso…+6 more: $51,500 · Environment+6 moreKINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS INC: $80,000 · Arts & CultureAMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY: $50,000 · Arts & CultureNEW YORK CITY BALLET INC: $11,000 · Arts & Culture+4 more: $11,000 · Arts & CultureINTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION: $6,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $5,000 · InternationalInternational Rescue Committee INC: $4,500 · InternationalUNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY: $3,000 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF MOUNT HOLYOKE COLLEGE: $2,000 · EducationHOMEFRONT INC: $2,000 · EducationC-CHANGE CONVERSATIONS: $1,500 · EducationAMHERST COLLEGE TRUSTEES: $500 · EducationTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $500 · EducationPLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC: $6,000 · HealthCENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY INC: $2,500 · Animals
Other$6,978,000Environment$901,500Arts & Culture$152,000International$15,500Education$9,500Health$6,000Animals$2,500

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 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 budgetTHE TRUSTEES OF COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY IN THE CITY OF NEW YORK: $500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds EARTHJUSTICE ↗
  • Who funds NATIONAL PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Scenic Hudson Inc ↗
  • Who funds KINGDOM COUNTY PRODUCTIONS INC ↗
  • Who funds AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR STATE AND LOCAL HISTORY ↗
  • Who funds EVERGREEN COLLABORATIVE ↗
  • Who funds SUNDANCE NATURE ALLIANCE ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK CITY BALLET INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION WESTERN HEMISPHERE REGION ↗
  • Who funds PLANNED PARENTHOOD HUDSON PECONIC INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK PUBLIC RADIO ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds UNION THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY ↗
  • Who funds Princeton Future Inc ↗
  • Who funds MARQUAND PARK FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WNET ↗
  • Who funds NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDEN ↗

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 Charita…Fidelity Investments …Amazonsmile Foundation
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.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018) funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Laurance S Rockefeller Fund (5018). Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 40%1%4%8%15%funder's share of their income ↑0%15%30%45%60%share of the org’s income from government →median 1%
  • Homefront Inc: 9% of income from government
  • Shelburne Farms: 3% of income from government
  • Kingdom County Productions Inc: 1% of income from government
  • The Trustees of Mount Holyoke College: 1% of income from government
  • Amherst College Trustees: 0% of income from government
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
6report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
0rely on government for over half their income
⤢ axis zoomed · 0–60%
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.
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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.

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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