How much did THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION grant in FY2024?

Philanthropy$535MInternational$141MEnvironment$138MEducation$71MHealth$48MCommunity Improvement$43MSocial Science$36MPublic Benefit$32MHuman Services$28MOther$710M

02beneath the categories

Past the labels — and the year it shifted

Beneath the NTEE codes, this is what the grant descriptions actually say.

…and in their own words, year by year

2018

facilitate donationsdonations similarsimilar wellwell contributionscontributions sectorsub-granteesdisbursed

2019

facilitate donationsdonations similarsimilar wellwell contributionscontributions sectororganizing conveningforum held

2020

foundation's staffstaff volunteerfacilitate donationsdonations similarsimilar wellwell contributionscontributions sector

2021

equitable vaccinationparticipation equitablevaccination advisorydisadvantaged impactedbipoc womeneffective vaccinationvaccination socioeconomically

2022

health innovationsummit exploreexplore innovativeinnovative applicationsapplications informationinformation technologytechnology nutrition

2023

impact climatetax revenueenvironmentsresearch conveningsmalnourishedreform globalvulnerable impoverished

Words distinctive to each year’s grant purposes (TF-IDF) · event-driven terms in cyan.

03FY2024 · 377 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under $10k13 grants · $54k
$10k–50k58 grants · $1.3M
$50k–250k168 grants · $21M
$250k+138 grants · $210M

$175,000

Median grant

States reached

$6.4B

Total assets

Largest grants

RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC$75,000,000
AMERICAN HEART ASSOCIATION INC$11,800,000
RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC$10,000,000
CO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC$10,000,000
CO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC$8,500,000
RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC$7,384,000
GLOBAL FUND TO FIGHT AIDS TUBERCULOSIS & MALARIA$7,000,000
RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC$6,417,744
WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME$3,901,164
AMERICAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION INC$3,152,963
UNITED NATIONS OFFICE FOR PROJECT SERVICE (UNOPS)$2,500,000
INTERNATIONAL BANK FOR RECONSTRUCTION AND DEVELOPMENT$2,500,000
HOPEWELL FUND$2,000,000
AFRICAN FIELD EPIDEMIOLOGY NETWORK$2,000,000
FREUNDE VON GISAID EV$1,547,316

02The need

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.

show:

Your human-services grants (FY17–24, $24.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15% — the area typically sits at 10%. 90% of those dollars reach neighborhoods with above-average need. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount

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; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.

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, United Way ALICE — 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 8% of THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION’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, 37% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 33% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.

THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATIONlessmore of its giving

Placed by recipient address · 26% directed abroad (not shown)

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.

03Your edge

repeat funding

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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

$1.6B · 1040 repeat orgs$176M to everyone else

1040 repeat relationships — 204 still active in FY2024, 836 since wound down; 100 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1040

860

Total granted

$1.6B

$158M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%

+57%

Still filing today

63%

51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $18M went to new ones.

RenewedFirst-time

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

EducationInternationalArts & CulturePhilanthropyHuman ServicesCommunity ImprovementOther

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

RC
RF CATALYTIC CAPITAL INC
4× · 2020–2024 · $349M · revenue +2383% · 60% of their budget
NEW VENTURE FUND
8× · 2017–2024 · $91M · revenue +85%
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC
8× · 2017–2024 · $87M · revenue +151%

Funded once

IF
INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORPORATION
one grant, 2021 · $30M
IL
IHEALTH LABS INC
one grant, 2022 · $5.0M
IL
INCANDESCENT LLC
one grant, 2017 · $3.3M

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Your field

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.

The Nasdaq Entrepreneurial Center Inc

Deliver world-class resources and mentoring to enable every entrepreneur across the globe to realize their maximum potential.

Arts & Culture

Foreign Policy Research Institute

Highest quality scholarship and nonpartisan policy analysis focused on u.s. foreign policy

International

Global Ties Us

To build trust and advance peace and prosperity though international exchange.

International

International Peace Institute Inc

The international peace institute is an independent, non-profit organization working to strengthen inclusive multilateralism for a more peaceful and sustainable planet. through its research, convening, and strategic advising, ipi provides…

International

University of New Haven

See schedule ouniversity of new haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts & professional education.

Education

Witness Inc

Witness helps people use video and technology to protect and defend human rights. the organization operates globally. witness' global team designs solutions, provides guidance, and co-develops strategies that enable human rights defenders…

International

Boston Architectural College

Founded 131 years ago, the boston architectural college is a recognized institution providing excellence in practice-integrated design education to members of diverse communities with students representing 35 countries. the bac offers…

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New York School of Interior Design

New york school of interior design provides the most innovative, immersive, and transformative interior design education in the world, demonstrating the impact of professionally designed interiors on the health, happiness, and well-being…

Education

Pathfinder International

Pathfinder builds lasting and trusted local partnerships to strengthen health systems, forging resilient pathways to sexual and reproductive health and rights for all.

International

National Council of Jewish Women

Inspired by jewish values, the national council of jewish women is a grassroots organization of volunteers and advocates who strive for social justice by improving the quality of life for women, children, and families, and by safeguarding…

Community Improvement

The Common Application Inc

The common application promotes access, equity, and integrity in the college admission process.

Education

Global Fund for Children

To advance the rights and opportunities of children and youth worldwide.

Arts & Culture

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Support Center for Nonprofit Management Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. 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.

the sector your giving your giving is ahead of the sector the sector’s ahead of you· dot size = how much the theme matters to each side

Ordered by the change in your giving — leaning in on top, pulling back at the bottom. The bar between the two dots is how out of step you are with the sector. Hover any row for detail.

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 30 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) — 2% of your grantees by number, and just 3% of your money.

Closures · last 5 years

The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.6% lost their exemption, against 11% of the field you don’t fund.

orgs you fund

0.6%12/1,866

the rest of the field

11%

206,152/1,817,699

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.

06the grantee network

1157 grantees, every filing reconciled, 2017–2025.

Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

294

Early backer (in before they grew)

1134/1157

Grantees still filing

892/1157

Grew since you first funded

Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee

Other$805,961,077Philanthropy$534,906,294International$141,040,563Environment$138,078,277Education$71,473,389Health$48,231,573Community Improvement$42,587,069

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.

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.

The Ford FoundationNY58.4× affinity227 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Ford Foundation · The Skoll Foundation · The Jpb Foundation · Gates Foundation · Wellspring Philanthropic Fund Inc · Foundation to Promote Open Society · Skoll Fund Co Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Omidyar Network Fund Inc · Lily Auchincloss Foundation Inc · Annie E Casey Foundation Inc · The Commonwealth Fund · The William & Flora Hewlett Foundation

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 organisation THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION 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.

2024

’20’21’22’23’24

no gov moneyreceives it· size = income

13get no government money at all

0rely on government for over half their income

typical government reliance, FY20–24

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. 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.

05Through Plinth

Through Plinth

Your grantmaking, live and operational

This dossier was generated cold from public filings. In Plinth it’s a working system — every applicant assessed and every grant monitored. Here’s a taste, run on one of your grantees: SEED TO GROWTH FOUNDATION.

Agentic due diligence · confidence × risk

Financial management

low risk

~21 months of operating runway; revenue grew over 2 filed years.

Track record & reputation

medium risk

2 years of Form 990 filings, still active; revenue up +60% since.

Legal standing

low risk

US 501(c)(3); EIN 320693756 on file with current IRS Form 990 filings.

Governance

Live in Plinth

Board composition & governance documents — verified live in Plinth from the applicant.

Compliance & sanctions

Live in Plinth

OFAC / UN sanctions screening — run live in Plinth at assessment.

Program capacity

Live in Plinth

Staffing, M&E and activity alignment — assessed live in Plinth from submitted proposals.

Live · Plinth’s real DD engine

Run the actual assessment on SEED TO GROWTH FOUNDATION, cold from public data.

Generated live from public IRS filings + open web sources by Plinth’s agentic engine. Shown as an illustration of the product, not a formal assessment.

Post-award monitoring · continuous checks

On trackFinancial stability— Roughly 21 months of cash on hand.
On trackSustained operations— Filing through 2024; revenue grew over the period.
WatchReliance on your funding— Your grants peaked at 100% of their budget — load-bearing; a dependency Plinth would track.
Awaiting reportEvidence of delivery— Plinth collects the grantee's own monitoring reports post-award.

What you see here is static and public. In Plinth it’s operational — the full six-pillar framework on every applicant (with their own documents + live registry and sanctions checks), monitoring dashboards on every award, custom board reports, and eligibility routing for intake.

Agentic due diligenceMonitoring dashboardsCustom board reportsEligibility routing

Preview generated from this grantee’s public IRS filings and independent reporting. Pillars marked “live in Plinth” require the applicant’s submitted documents. Shown as illustration, not a formal assessment.

Warm introductions · Powered by PlinthPro

How do I get to The Rockefeller Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Rockefeller Foundation through people who sit on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the introduction across shared trustees and officers.

Every link is a documented governance overlap in public IRS 990 filings — not a personal network — and each hop carries its own confidence tier. Low-confidence or distant paths are held back rather than guessed.

More from the funding graph

The regranting layer

51% of grant dollars pass through an intermediary

The DAF merry-go-round

$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds

Strange bedfellows

the named clusters of US funding

The camps

funders cluster by geography, not ideology

By state

where grant money is based, and what stays home

State money flows

the interactive map of money crossing state lines