New York · Nonprofit
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC (New York) receives grants from 487 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,138,653,928 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($160,683,031). 259 of them have funded it in more than one year. ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
Hosts funds for others
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC administers funds on behalf of other donors. The grants recorded as coming in are contributions into those funds, so they count custody rather than support for a programROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC runs itself. This page therefore states the flows and does not draw the comparisons it would draw for an operating charity: concentration, funder retention, grant dependency and the peer field are all left out, because each of them would read a vehicle as if it were a program.
Paid out
$1.4B
Recipients
3,943
Contributions on record
$2.4B
Donors on record
540
Payments out are 0.57x the contributions on record, so the balance accumulates rather than passing straight through.
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared funders
- Jasper Ridge Charitable Fundportfolio match
- The Louis and Lucille Jakobson Family Charitable Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 2% · 2018 1% · 2019 2% · 2020 2% · 2021 1% · 2022 1% · 2023 4% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 60 funders to 209 funders, grant income rose $75M → $383M.
57 of 487 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 25% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
Left out of every figure on this page: $142M from 48 payers (the payer shares this organization's board, largest Silicon Valley Community Foundation); $119M from one payer (the payer's own filing calls it a related party, largest NoVo Foundation). These are real filings, and they are not money ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC raised.
From the IRS filings of ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 487 funders by total. Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC draws 66% of its grant income from funders outside New York, across 40 states in all.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $528M arriving through sponsors registered in 24 statesis excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 487 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depressionshared fundersNY · backs 58 organizations that share your funders
- Jasper Ridge Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Louis and Lucille Jakobson Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jean and Albert Nerken Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William T Grant Foundation Incshared fundersNY · backs 59 organizations that share your funders
- Hispanic Scholarship Fundshared fundersCA · backs 55 organizations that share your funders
- Trustees of Tufts Collegeshared fundersMA · backs 66 organizations that share your funders
- Howard Hughes Medical Instituteshared fundersMD · backs 61 organizations that share your funders
- The Libra Foundationshared fundersCA · backs 66 organizations that share your funders
- American Council of Learned Societiesshared fundersNY · backs 87 organizations that share your funders
- The George Washington Universityshared fundersVA · backs 62 organizations that share your funders
- Northeastern Universityshared fundersMA · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government funding ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $72.3M on record — $72.3M federal, $5k state.
- Department of State$35.0M
- Agency for International Development$29.7M
- Department of Defense$7.5M
- Other Purchased Services$5k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
92%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 37 states
Part of a family of 2 related entities
- Dropbox Charitable Foundation · exempt
- Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors Europe · exempt
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
Screens are triage, not determinations; a source that cannot be read reports not screened, never clear. How the screen works · on the API as GET /api/screening/{ein}?format=pdf
Questions and answers
- Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC?
- ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC (New York) receives grants from 487 organizations whose IRS filings report $2,138,653,928 to it, the largest being NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST ($160,683,031). 259 of them have funded it in more than one year. ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC administers funds for other donors, so those contributions arrive into funds it holds rather than supporting a program it runs itself.
- How many funders does ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC have?
- IRS filings report 487 organizations giving $2,138,653,928 in grants to ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC, 259 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC?
- NATIONAL PHILANTHROPIC TRUST is the largest funder on record, with $160,683,031 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in New York. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 487funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported August 27, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing