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The David Rockefeller Fund Inc: 83 grants to organizations, $3.3 million (tax year ended December 2024)
The David Rockefeller Fund Inc, a private foundation in New York, NY, paid 83 grants to organizations totaling $3,279,650 in its tax year ended December 2024, according to its Form 990-PF filed with the IRS on November 14, 2025. The largest was $250,000 to Georgia Alliance Education Fund in Atlanta, GA for to support a statewide coalition of community organizing and civic engagement initiatives in georgia..
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- EIN
- 133533359
- Based in
- New York, NY
- Assets
- $65,358,301
- Grants paid
- $3,279,650
- Tax year ended
- December 2024
Grants paid, tax year ended December 2024
From the Form 990-PF filed November 14, 2025, IRS object ID 202523189349104572. It reported $3,279,650 in grants paid; 83 grants to organizations are listed.
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Cause | Amount | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Alliance Education Fund | Atlanta, GA | To support a statewide coalition of community organizing and civic engagement initiatives in georgia. | Education | $250,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Private Equity Stakeholder Project | Chicago, IL | To monitor and draw attention to private equity investments in fossil fuel assets. | $150,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Action for Safety and Justice | Sacramento, CA | To educate the public on public safety solutions for reducing mass criminalization and incarceration. | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Croatan Institute | Durham, NC | For rural beacon initiative's free union farm regenerative sustainability hub and seed sanctuary project. | Environment | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Illuminative | Washington, DC | Illuminative's native artists and storytellers fund | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| League of Conservation Voters | Washington, DC | To support the chispa program's efforts to advance climate solutions and environmental justice. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Michigan Civic Action Fund | Madison Heights, MI | To provide education about civic engagement opportunities and public policy issues in michigan, and provide technical assistance infrastructure for state-based movement partner organizations. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $100,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Years Project | Brooklyn, NY | To produce multi-media digital communications in collaboration with the beyond petrochemicals campaign. | $80,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Windward Fund | Washington, DC | Hive fund for climate and gender justice - invests in the expertise and long-term success of organizations building power to address intersecting climate, gender, and racial justice crises. | Environment | $80,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Center for Artistic Activism | Leeds, NY | Unstoppable voters a training and mentoring program that educates artists and activists on research-based tools to design and implement effective civic engagement creative campaigns. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Climate Emergency Advocates | Charlestown, MA | To support strategic communications and digital media campaigns to advance climate advocacy for renewable energy solutions. | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Global Impact | Alexandria, VA | Galaxy gives' galaxy leader fellowship project - support for directly-impacted, visionary leaders working to end mass incarceration in the united states. | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Latino Community Foundation | San Francisco, CA | Poderarte - participatory grantmaking initiative supporting the use of art and culture strategies to increase public awareness, civic engagement, and social justice. | Human services | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Progressive Multiplier Action Fund | Washington, DC | To support nonprofit voter engagement and climate justice groups in the implementation of independent, scalable revenue generation techniques. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | Calabasas, CA | Formerly incarcerated, convicted people and families movement - national network of civil and human rights organizations working to end mass incarceration. | Environment | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Tides Advocacy | San Francisco, CA | Resilient democracy action fund - effort to build the technological capacity of civic engagement organizations. | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Uscan (us Climate Action Network) | Washington, DC | To support climate and environmental organizations engaged in local, national, and global climate policy advocacy toward a just transition and related civic engagement. | $75,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | The movement institute - a platform to scale technological and inter-organizational infrastructure in support of movement groups. | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $70,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| A Blade of Grass | Long Island City, NY | To facilitate a learning community of funders supporting socially engaged art. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| A Climate To Thrive | Mount Desert, ME | To engage in knowlege sharing and collaboration to advance community-owned micro-grid infrastructure projects. | Environment | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Brooklyn Arts Exchange | Brooklyn, NY | To expand and replicate the emergenyc incubator and support network for emerging artist-activists. | Arts, culture and humanities | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Business Capacity Development Alliance | Brooklyn, NY | For canary impact participatory grantmaking committee. | Community improvement and capacity building | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Casa Inc | Hyattsville, MD | To provide education on climate justice issues in pennsylvania. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Commission Shift | Laredo, TX | To support education and research on oil and gas regulatory compliance aimed at ensuring the railroad commission of texas is responsive to its mandate in a changing energy landscape. | Environment | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Dreamorg | Oakland, CA | Empathy network - provide issue education to state and federal policymakers with the goal of bringing about powerful changes to the justice system. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Fair Count | Atlanta, GA | To build civic power for an equitable electorate and climate movement in the state of georgia. | Community improvement and capacity building | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Impactassets | Bethesda, MD | To support the upstart co-lab inclusive creative economy strategy, the first ever national impact investing vehicle to support creative industries within the united states. | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Lucha | Phoenix, AZ | To educate communities in arizona about local economic and social issues. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| New Left Accelerator | Alameda, CA | Empower & protect arizona - an equity-informed capacity-building program providing technical assistance to arizona-based organizations engaged in power-building work. | Public and societal benefit | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Nextgen Education Fund | San Francisco, CA | To educate, empower, and encourage civic engagement and community leadership among young adults and cultivate youth organizing in support of climate justice. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| One for Democracy | New York, NY | To strengthen the infrastructure needed for democracy, and ultimately communities, to thrive. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Poder | Phoenix, AZ | To educate arizona communities about civic engagement and opportunities to advance their health and safety at the local and state level. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Protect Our Winters | Boulder, CO | To mobilize the outdoor sport enthusiast community to take action in support of climate and clean energy solutions. | Environment | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Restoreher | Fayetteville, GA | National network advocating for improved conditions of confinement and justice system transformation in the u.s. south and beyond. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| State Democracy Project | Brooklyn, NY | For organized power in numbers project's efforts to engage in knowlege sharing and collaboration to advance community-owned micro-grid infrastructure projects. | Public and societal benefit | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | Mass liberation fund - training and support to organizations working to advance decarceration nationwide. | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Urban Bush Women | Brooklyn, NY | To promote dance programming that deepens and expands community organizing. | $50,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Movement Strategy Center | Oakland, CA | Equitable intermediary project - building the capacity of equity-focused fiscal sponsors to provide effective services to sponsored organizations that are working to accelerate a just transition and a | Community improvement and capacity building | $40,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Momentum Community | Long Beach, CA | To support relationship-building and collaboration among leaders working at the intersections of the climate, justice, labor, democracy, and racial justice movements. | Education | $27,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Confluence Philanthropy | New York, NY | To support educational programming for foundations and other values-aligned investors, and the transparency compact's efforts to cultivate more transparent sector-wide practices for investing in decar | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $25,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Abbe Museum | Bar Harbor, ME | To plan for the sustainability and reach of the dawnland festival of arts & ideas, an initiative dedicated to catalyzing deeper understanding of how indigenous worldviews can offer solutions for the m | Arts, culture and humanities | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Center for Cultural Power | Oakland, CA | To engage young people in movements using arts and culture for social justice at the national, state, and local levels. | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Climate Emergency Advocates | Charlestown, MA | To support strategic communications and digital media campaigns to advance climate advocacy for renewable energy solutions. | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Common Defense Education Fund | New York, NY | Veterans for climate justice a national campaign of u.s. military veterans working to raise public awareness of the climate crisis and build public support for clean renewable energy. | Public and societal benefit | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| In Our Backyards (ioby) | Brooklyn, NY | To support ioby's leadership transition and strategic planning initiatives. | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Texas Prisons Community Advocates Inc | Fulton, TX | To support texas prisons community advocates' learning and collaboration with hadanou collective via its intensive boot camp program for nonprofit leaders. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Hadanou Collective | Denver, CO | To support the full costs of texas prisons community advocates' participation in the hadanou collective's boot camp program. | Education | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | The movement institute - a platform to scale technological and inter-organizational infrastructure in support of movement groups. | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $25,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Center for Justice and Human Dignity | Tempe, AZ | To support collaborative efforts to improve conditions of confinement in correctional facilities and foster correctional cultures that advance human dignity. | Crime and legal-related | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Connective | Houston, TX | To support hurricane beryl disaster recovery response and long-term resilience efforts in the greater houston, texas area. | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Look2justice | Tacoma, WA | To engage in collaborative effforts to address the complex trauma, justice, and healing needs within communities affected by violence and mass incarceration through events that advance restorative jus | Crime and legal-related | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| RVC Seattle | Seattle, WA | Collective justice - supporting efforts to engage in collaborative effforts to address the complex trauma, justice, and healing needs within communities affected by violence and mass incarceration thr | Community improvement and capacity building | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Startempowerment | Austin, TX | To support the development of a climate and environmental justice educational curriculum tailored to the lived experiences of frontline youth communities in texas. | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund | Austin, TX | To support the facilitation of the texas environmental justice, energy, and democracy coalition. | Housing and shelter | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Uscan (us Climate Action Network) | Washington, DC | To support climate and environmental organizations engaged in local, national, and global climate policy advocacy toward a just transition and related civic engagement. | $20,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Poder | Phoenix, AZ | To educate arizona communities about civic engagement and opportunities to advance their health and safety at the local and state level. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $18,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Broadway Advocacy Coalition | New York, NY | To support collaborations with justice-focused advocacy organizations participating in the theater of change program. | Human services | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Brooklyn Arts Exchange | Brooklyn, NY | To support brooklyn arts exchange's organizational leadership transition. | Arts, culture and humanities | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| New World Foundation | New York, NY | Eclipse fund project - multi-issue learning and funding community supporting education on environmental, economic, racial justice, and democracy issues. | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| New World Foundation | New York, NY | Eclipse fund project - multi-issue learning and funding community supporting education on environmental, economic, racial justice, and democracy issues. | Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $15,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Center for Justice at Columbia University | New York, NY | To support collaborative efforts to strengthen ties between academics, social work practitioners, advocates, and directly impacted communities to improve the conditions faced by incarcerated women and | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| National Religious Campaign Against Torture | Washington, DC | Social workers and allies against solitary confinement - engaging in collaborative efforts to strengthen ties between academics, social work practitioners, advocates, and directly impacted communities | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| People's Theatre Project | New York, NY | To support collaborative efforts to inform new york city's cultural advocacy priorities. | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | Calabasas, CA | National alianza for opportunity - supporting the implementation of the alianza's newly developed strategic plan, which strengthens its infrastructure, fundraising, communications, community engagemen | Environment | $10,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| The Gathering for Justice | New York, NY | General operating support for an organization working to conduct intersectional cultural organizing and advocacy toward justice system transformation while it undergoes an executive leadership transit | Human services | $7,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| Environmental Grantmakers Association | New York, NY | Membership association of foundations and giving programs that promotes effective environmental philanthropy. | Environment | $7,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Grantmakers in the Arts | Bronx, NY | To provide operating support for network of donors committed to effective arts philanthropy. | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Racial Justice Now | Silver Spring, MD | To sustain the organization's ongoing community organizing efforts during its executive director's sabbatical. | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Restoreher | Fayetteville, GA | Program symposium and retreat. | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Tamizdat Project Inc | Astoria, NY | To support educational expenses of students displaced by war or repression in their home countries that are pursuing college studies within the united states. | Arts, culture and humanities | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| Wayfarer Foundation | Wilmette, IL | To support travel expenses for a convening of nonprofit leaders centering ceremony, community, and capacity building. | $5,000 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | Calabasas, CA | Funders for justice - membership association of donors committed to criminal legal system transformation. | Environment | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov |
| University of Orange | Orange, NJ | To support the root shock 20 convening of community members, artists, and community organizers. | $2,500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance | Austin, TX | Staff matching grant to be used for general operating support. | Arts, culture and humanities | $2,000 | apps.irs.gov |
| In Our Backyards (ioby) | Brooklyn, NY | Staff matching grant to be used for hike the heights project. | $500 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Montclair Early Childhood Corporation | Montclair, NJ | Staff matching grant to be used for lulu's fund. | Education | $300 | apps.irs.gov |
| Amalgamated Charitable Foundation | Washington, DC | Staff matching grant to be used for organizing resilience project's maui just recovery fund. | $250 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Center for Disaster Philanthropy | Washington, DC | Staff matching grant to be used for israel and gaza relief & recovery fund. | Public safety, disaster preparedness and relief | $250 | apps.irs.gov |
| Naral Pro-Choice America Foundation | Washington, DC | Staff matching grant to be used for general operating support. | $250 | apps.irs.gov | |
| Montclair Early Childhood Corporation | Montclair, NJ | Staff matching grant to be used for lulu's fund. | Education | $200 | apps.irs.gov |
| Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance | Austin, TX | Staff matching grant to be used for general operating support. | Arts, culture and humanities | $200 | apps.irs.gov |
| Allgo | Austin, TX | Staff matching grant to be used for general operating support. | Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $100 | apps.irs.gov |
| Pancreatic Cancer Action Network | Manhattan Beach, CA | Staff matching gift to be used toward purplestride program. | $100 | apps.irs.gov |
Causes funded
From grants whose recipient has a cause.
| Cause | Granted |
|---|---|
| Civil rights, social action and advocacy | $503,100 |
| Environment | $424,500 |
| Education | $303,000 |
| Philanthropy, voluntarism and grantmaking foundations | $275,500 |
| Community improvement and capacity building | $160,000 |
| Public and societal benefit | $125,000 |
| Human services | $97,500 |
| Arts, culture and humanities | $97,200 |
States funded
| Recipient state | Granted |
|---|---|
| California | $725,100 |
| New York | $635,500 |
| District of Columbia | $460,750 |
| Georgia | $355,000 |
| Illinois | $155,000 |
| Arizona | $138,000 |
| Texas | $137,300 |
| Maryland | $105,000 |
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Updated November 14, 2025. Read from IRS Form 990-PF e-file data. Public domain (U.S. government work). Grants are as each foundation reported them to the IRS on its Form 990-PF. Grants to individuals are left out. A grant has a cause only where the recipient's name and city match one organization in the IRS Business Master File, and the cause is that organization's NTEE major group. Free to reuse with credit to SpecStream under CC BY 4.0. Spot a wrong value? Write to [email protected] with the link to this page.