The David Rockefeller Fund Information

The David Rockefeller Fund was established in 1989 by David Rockefeller and his wife Peggy to carry out their annual charitable giving in communities where they had homes outside New York City. In 2001, David Rockefeller expanded the Fund and invited his children and grandchildren and their spouses to take a more active role in the Fund with the idea of transferring to them the familys philanthropic tradition. The Funds work provides a learning environment where family members are able to engage in dialogue and grant-making around shared topics of interest. We invest in catalytic ideas, people, efforts, and institutions working strategically toward ecological regeneration, justice system transformation, and art for social impact. The David Rockefeller Fund is a family foundation inspired by the vision and generosity of our founders, David and Peggy Rockefeller, to foster and embody a more just, creative, and flourishing world. The Fund currently has three primary program areas: Arts, Justice, and Climate. The Arts Program focuses on cultivating, showcasing and disseminating the stories of innovative art for social change; Justice supports bold new ideas and policy initiatives for transforming U.S. detention and incarceration policy; and Climate supports new ideas, initiatives and policy breakthroughs in support of bipartisan U.S. climate leadership. In addition to the program areas outlined above, the Fund underwrites a number of initiatives designed to encourage trustees individual charitable giving.