The David Rockefeller Fund Inc
Historical FunderNew York, New York · EIN 13-3533359 · Private foundation · Website
Grants paid (2024)$3.3M
Organizations funded83
Typical grant$25,000
Total assets$65.4M
Half of its grants to organizations were between $10,000 and $50,000.
From the return
How to apply
The foundation filed the following application information (Form 990-PF Part XV, tax year 2024):
| Contact | LEXI FISHER |
|---|---|
| Address | 475 RIVERSIDE DRIVE SUITE 900, NEW YORK NY 10115 |
| Phone | 2128124300 |
| LOI@DRFUND.ORG | |
| Form and materials | THE DAVID ROCKEFELLER FUND WEBSITE STATES 1-2 PAGE LETTER OF INTENT SHOULD BE SUBMITTED TO LOI@DRFUND.ORG |
| Deadlines | THE DAVID ROCKEFELLER FUND ACCEPTS UNSOLICITED REQUESTS ON A ROLLING BASIS. |
| Restrictions | THE DAVID ROCKEFELLER FUND ONLY ACCEPTS UNSOLICITED REQUESTS THAT FIT ITS THREE KEY PROGRAM AREAS (ARTS, JUSTICE AND CLIMATE) |
Copied as filed. Deadlines on a tax return describe the foundation's usual process; they are not confirmation of a current open cycle.
What it funds
Share of grant lines on the latest return, classified from the purpose each grant states.
Where it gives
73% of grants went outside New York.
Grants paid in tax year 2024
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia Alliance Education Fund | Atlanta, GA | To support a statewide coalition of community organizing and civic engagement initiatives in georgia. | $250,000 |
| Private Equity Stakeholder Project | Chicago, IL | To monitor and draw attention to private equity investments in fossil fuel assets. | $150,000 |
| Action for Safety and Justice | Sacramento, CA | To educate the public on public safety solutions for reducing mass criminalization and incarceration. | $100,000 |
| Croatan Institute | Durham, NC | For rural beacon initiative's free union farm regenerative sustainability hub and seed sanctuary project. | $100,000 |
| Illuminative | Washington, DC | Illuminative's native artists and storytellers fund | $100,000 |
| League of Conservation Voters | Washington, DC | To support the chispa program's efforts to advance climate solutions and environmental justice. | $100,000 |
| Michigan Civic Action Fund | Madison Heights, MI | To provide education about civic engagement opportunities and public policy issues in michigan, and provide technical assistance… | $100,000 |
| The Years Project | Brooklyn, NY | To produce multi-media digital communications in collaboration with the beyond petrochemicals campaign. | $80,000 |
| 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… | $80,000 |
| 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… | $75,000 |
| Climate Emergency Advocates | Charlestown, MA | To support strategic communications and digital media campaigns to advance climate advocacy for renewable energy solutions. | $75,000 |
| Global Impact | Alexandria, VA | Galaxy gives' galaxy leader fellowship project - support for directly-impacted, visionary leaders working to end mass incarceration in the… | $75,000 |
| Latino Community Foundation | San Francisco, CA | Poderarte - participatory grantmaking initiative supporting the use of art and culture strategies to increase public awareness, civic… | $75,000 |
| Progressive Multiplier Action Fund | Washington, DC | To support nonprofit voter engagement and climate justice groups in the implementation of independent, scalable revenue generation… | $75,000 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | Calabasas, CA | Formerly incarcerated, convicted people and families movement - national network of civil and human rights organizations working to end… | $75,000 |
| Tides Advocacy | San Francisco, CA | Resilient democracy action fund - effort to build the technological capacity of civic engagement organizations. | $75,000 |
| 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… | $75,000 |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | The movement institute - a platform to scale technological and inter-organizational infrastructure in support of movement groups. | $70,000 |
| A Blade of Grass | Long Island City, NY | To facilitate a learning community of funders supporting socially engaged art. | $50,000 |
| A Climate to Thrive | Mount Desert, ME | To engage in knowlege sharing and collaboration to advance community-owned micro-grid infrastructure projects. | $50,000 |
| Brooklyn Arts Exchange | Brooklyn, NY | To expand and replicate the emergenyc incubator and support network for emerging artist-activists. | $50,000 |
| Business Capacity Development Alliance | Brooklyn, NY | For canary impact participatory grantmaking committee. | $50,000 |
| Casa Inc | Hyattsville, MD | To provide education on climate justice issues in pennsylvania. | $50,000 |
| 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… | $50,000 |
| Dreamorg | Oakland, CA | Empathy network - provide issue education to state and federal policymakers with the goal of bringing about powerful changes to the justice… | $50,000 |
| Fair Count | Atlanta, GA | To build civic power for an equitable electorate and climate movement in the state of georgia. | $50,000 |
| Impactassets | Bethesda, MD | To support the upstart co-lab inclusive creative economy strategy, the first ever national impact investing vehicle to support creative… | $50,000 |
| Lucha | Phoenix, AZ | To educate communities in arizona about local economic and social issues. | $50,000 |
| New Left Accelerator | Alameda, CA | Empower & protect arizona - an equity-informed capacity-building program providing technical assistance to arizona-based organizations… | $50,000 |
| 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… | $50,000 |
| One for Democracy | New York, NY | To strengthen the infrastructure needed for democracy, and ultimately communities, to thrive. | $50,000 |
| Poder | Phoenix, AZ | To educate arizona communities about civic engagement and opportunities to advance their health and safety at the local and state level. | $50,000 |
| Protect Our Winters | Boulder, CO | To mobilize the outdoor sport enthusiast community to take action in support of climate and clean energy solutions. | $50,000 |
| Restoreher | Fayetteville, GA | National network advocating for improved conditions of confinement and justice system transformation in the u.s. south and beyond. | $50,000 |
| 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… | $50,000 |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | Mass liberation fund - training and support to organizations working to advance decarceration nationwide. | $50,000 |
| Urban Bush Women | Brooklyn, NY | To promote dance programming that deepens and expands community organizing. | $50,000 |
| Movement Strategy Center | Oakland, CA | Equitable intermediary project - building the capacity of equity-focused fiscal sponsors to provide effective services to sponsored… | $40,000 |
| Momentum Community | Long Beach, CA | To support relationship-building and collaboration among leaders working at the intersections of the climate, justice, labor, democracy,… | $27,500 |
| Confluence Philanthropy | New York, NY | To support educational programming for foundations and other values-aligned investors, and the transparency compact's efforts to cultivate… | $25,500 |
| 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… | $25,000 |
| 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. | $25,000 |
| Climate Emergency Advocates | Charlestown, MA | To support strategic communications and digital media campaigns to advance climate advocacy for renewable energy solutions. | $25,000 |
| 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… | $25,000 |
| In Our Backyards (Ioby) | Brooklyn, NY | To support ioby's leadership transition and strategic planning initiatives. | $25,000 |
| 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… | $25,000 |
| The Hadanou Collective | Denver, CO | To support the full costs of texas prisons community advocates' participation in the hadanou collective's boot camp program. | $25,000 |
| Tides Foundation | San Francisco, CA | The movement institute - a platform to scale technological and inter-organizational infrastructure in support of movement groups. | $25,000 |
| 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… | $20,000 |
| Connective | Houston, TX | To support hurricane beryl disaster recovery response and long-term resilience efforts in the greater houston, texas area. | $20,000 |
| Look2justice | Tacoma, WA | To engage in collaborative effforts to address the complex trauma, justice, and healing needs within communities affected by violence and… | $20,000 |
| Rvc Seattle | Seattle, WA | Collective justice - supporting efforts to engage in collaborative effforts to address the complex trauma, justice, and healing needs… | $20,000 |
| Startempowerment | Austin, TX | To support the development of a climate and environmental justice educational curriculum tailored to the lived experiences of frontline… | $20,000 |
| Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund | Austin, TX | To support the facilitation of the texas environmental justice, energy, and democracy coalition. | $20,000 |
| 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… | $20,000 |
| Poder | Phoenix, AZ | To educate arizona communities about civic engagement and opportunities to advance their health and safety at the local and state level. | $18,000 |
| Broadway Advocacy Coalition | New York, NY | To support collaborations with justice-focused advocacy organizations participating in the theater of change program. | $15,000 |
| Brooklyn Arts Exchange | Brooklyn, NY | To support brooklyn arts exchange's organizational leadership transition. | $15,000 |
| New World Foundation | New York, NY | Eclipse fund project - multi-issue learning and funding community supporting education on environmental, economic, racial justice, and… | $15,000 |
| New World Foundation | New York, NY | Eclipse fund project - multi-issue learning and funding community supporting education on environmental, economic, racial justice, and… | $15,000 |
Showing the 60 largest of 83 grants to organizations.
Grants approved for future payment
| Recipient | Location | Purpose | Amount |
|---|---|---|---|
| Action for Safety and Justice | Sacramento, CA | To educate the public on public safety solutions for reducing mass criminalization and incarceration. | $100,000 |
| Formerly Incarcerated Convicted People and Families Movement Inc | Windermere, FL | Supporting a national network of civil and human rights organizations working to end mass incarceration. | $75,000 |
| Global Impact | Alexandria, VA | Galaxy gives' galaxy leader fellowship project - support for directly-impacted, visionary leaders working to end mass incarceration in the… | $75,000 |
| Progressive Multiplier Action Fund | Washington, DC | To support nonprofit voter engagement and climate justice groups in the implementation of independent, scalable revenue generation… | $75,000 |
| 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… | $75,000 |
| 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… | $75,000 |
| Brooklyn Arts Exchange | Brooklyn, NY | To expand and replicate the emergenyc incubator and support network for emerging artist-activists. | $50,000 |
| Business Capacity Development Alliance | Brooklyn, NY | For canary impact participatory grantmaking committee. | $50,000 |
| Business Capacity Development Alliance | Brooklyn, NY | For canary impact participatory grantmaking committee. | $50,000 |
| Business Capacity Development Alliance | Brooklyn, NY | For canary impact participatory grantmaking committee. | $50,000 |
| Business Capacity Development Alliance | Brooklyn, NY | For canary impact participatory grantmaking committee. | $50,000 |
| 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… | $50,000 |
| Climate Emergency Advocates | Charlestown, MA | To support strategic communications and digital media campaigns to advance climate advocacy for renewable energy solutions. | $50,000 |
| Croatan Institute | Durham, NC | For rural beacon initiative's free union farm regenerative sustainability hub and seed sanctuary project. | $50,000 |
| Croatan Institute | Durham, NC | For rural beacon initiative's free union farm regenerative sustainability hub and seed sanctuary project. | $50,000 |
| Croatan Institute | Durham, NC | For rural beacon initiative's free union farm regenerative sustainability hub and seed sanctuary project. | $50,000 |
| Lucha | Phoenix, AZ | To educate communities in arizona about local economic and social issues. | $50,000 |
| New Left Accelerator | Alameda, CA | Empower & protect arizona -- an equity-informed capacity-building program providing technical assistance to arizona-based organizations… | $50,000 |
| 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… | $50,000 |
| Poder | Phoenix, AZ | To educate arizona communities about civic engagement and opportunities to advance their health and safety at the local and state level. | $50,000 |
| Restoreher | Fayetteville, GA | National network advocating for improved conditions of confinement and justice system transformation in the u.s. south and beyond. | $50,000 |
| Restoreher | Fayetteville, GA | National network advocating for improved conditions of confinement and justice system transformation in the u.s. south and beyond. | $50,000 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | Calabasas, CA | Mass liberation fund - training and support to organizations working to advance decarceration nationwide. | $50,000 |
| Urban Bush Women | Brooklyn, NY | To promote dance programming that deepens and expands community organizing. | $50,000 |
| 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… | $25,000 |
| Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund | Austin, TX | To support the facilitation of the texas environmental justice, energy, and democracy coalition. | $20,000 |
| Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund | Austin, TX | To support the facilitation of the texas environmental justice, energy, and democracy coalition. | $20,000 |
| Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund | Austin, TX | To support the facilitation of the texas environmental justice, energy, and democracy coalition. | $20,000 |
| Texas Campaign for the Environment Fund | Austin, TX | To support the facilitation of the texas environmental justice, energy, and democracy coalition. | $20,000 |
| Grantmakers in the Arts | Bronx, NY | To provide operating support for network of donors committed to effective arts philanthropy. | $5,000 |
| Grantmakers in the Arts | Bronx, NY | To provide operating support for network of donors committed to effective arts philanthropy. | $5,000 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | Calabasas, CA | Funders for justice - membership association of donors committed to criminal legal system transformation. | $2,500 |
| Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs | Calabasas, CA | Funders for justice - membership association of donors committed to criminal legal system transformation. | $2,500 |
Giving by year
| Tax year | Grants paid | Grant lines |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3,279,650 | 116 |
| 2023 | $4,262,391 | 102 |
Sources
- IRS Form 990-PF, tax year 2024, filed Nov 14, 2025 - IRS e-file batch, object ID 202523189349104572
- IRS Tax Exempt Organization Search for EIN 13-3533359
- Profile updated Nov 5, 2026
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