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Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is an American private foundation and philanthropic medical research and arts funding organization based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.[3] The foundation was created by Standard Oil magnate John D. Rockefeller ("Senior") and son "Junior", and their primary business advisor, Frederick Taylor Gates, on May 14, 1913, when its charter was granted by New York.[4] It is the second-oldest major philanthropic institution in America (after the Carnegie Corporation) and ranks as the 30th largest foundation globally by endowment, with assets of over $6.3 billion in 2022.[2] According to the OECD, the foundation provided $284 million for development in 2021.[5] The foundation has given more than $14 billion in current dollars.[6]

Founded

May 14, 1913 (1913-05-14)

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Rajiv Shah
(president)

$6.3 billion (2022)[2]

The foundation has had an international reach since the 1930s and major influence on global non-governmental organizations. The World Health Organization is modeled on the International Health Division of the foundation, which sent doctors abroad to study and treat human subjects. The National Science Foundation and National Institute of Health are also modeled on the work funded by Rockefeller.[7] It has also been a supporter of and influence on the United Nations.


In 2020, the foundation pledged that it would divest from fossil fuel, notable since the endowment was largely funded by Standard Oil.[8] The foundation also has a controversial past, including support of eugenics in the 1930s, as well as several scandals arising from their international field work. In 2021, the foundation's president committed to reckoning with their history, and to centering equity and inclusion.

Development of the United Nations[edit]

Although the United States never joined the League of Nations, the Rockefeller Foundation was involved, and by the 1930s the foundations had changed the League from a "Parliament of Nations" to a modern think tank that used specialized expertise to provide in-depth impartial analysis of international issues.[73][74] After the war, the foundation was involved in the establishment of the United Nations.[75]

Rockefeller University

(CFR) – Especially the notable 1939–45 War and Peace Studies that advised the US State Department and the US government on World War II strategy and forward planning

Council on Foreign Relations

(RIIA) in London

Royal Institute of International Affairs

in Washington – Support of the diplomatic training program

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

in Washington – Significant funding of research grants in the fields of economic and social studies

Brookings Institution

in Washington – Helped finance the training of foreign officials through the Economic Development Institute

World Bank

– Grants to the Center for International Affairs and medical, business and administration Schools

Harvard University

– Substantial funding to the Institute of International Studies

Yale University

Office of Population Research

Princeton University

– Establishment of the Russia Institute

Columbia University

– Funded research for the College of Agriculture and built an international house for foreign students

University of the Philippines, Los Baños

– The Rockefeller Foundation funded the Montreal Neurological Institute, on the request of Wilder Penfield, a Canadian neurosurgeon, who had met David Rockefeller years before

McGill University

– Funded a project for photographic copies of the complete card catalogues for the world's fifty leading libraries

Library of Congress

at Oxford University – Grant for a building to house five million volumes

Bodleian Library

of New York – Funded fellowships

Population Council

– Major funding for fellowships and grants-in-aid

Social Science Research Council

[110]

National Bureau of Economic Research

(formerly The Institute of Public Health (国立公衆衛生院, Kokuritsu Kōshū Eisei-in) "School of Public Health"ja) in Tokyo (1938)

National Institute of Public Health of Japan

– In 1978 the foundation invited Geoffrey Bell to set up this high-powered and influential advisory group on global financial issues, whose former chairman was longtime Rockefeller associate Paul Volcker, until his death in 2019[111]

Group of Thirty

– funded research and general budget

London School of Economics

Geneva – funded general budget from 1927 to 1954

Graduate Institute of International Studies

– funded research in natural sciences, social sciences, medicine and the new building of the medical school during the 1920s–1930s

University of Lyon, France

The

Trinidad Regional Virus Laboratory

The – funded the Center for Health Market Innovations

Results for Development Institute

in Thailand

Mahidol University

– a nationwide nonprofit founded in 2012 to promote a resilient democracy through voter ID access

VoteRiders

Quotations related to Rockefeller Foundation at Wikiquote

Archived 2012-08-21 at the Wayback Machine The history of the council by Peter Grose, a council member – mentions financial support from the Rockefeller foundation.

CFR Website – Continuing the Inquiry: The Council on Foreign Relations from 1921 to 1996

Foundation Center: Top 50 US Foundations by total giving

New York Times: Rockefeller Foundation Elects 5 – Including Alan Alda and Peggy Dulany

SFGate.com: "Eugenics and the Nazis: the California Connection"

Press for Conversion! magazine, Issue # 53: "Facing the Corporate Roots of American Fascism," Bryan Sanders, Coalition to Oppose the Arms Trade, March 2004

including a timeline

Rockefeller Foundation website

The Rockefeller foundation, International health board. New York 1920

Hookworm and malaria research in Malaya, Java, and the Fiji Islands; report of Uncinariasis commission to the Orient, 1915–1917