What We Fund

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund awards grants throughout the year to support a variety of charitable projects in the United States and abroad that seek to expand knowledge, clarify values and critical choices, nurture creative expression, and shape public policy.

Grants

To be eligible for a grant, organizations should be considered tax-exempt or seeking support for a project that would qualify as educational or charitable. The Fund’s grantmaking is organized around three thematic programs:

• Democratic Practice 
• Peacebuilding
• Sustainable Development

and three place-based programs, which support local endeavors to build knowledge, organizational capacity, and leadership needed to advance the theme-related interests in locally appropriate ways:

• Pivotal Place: New York City
• Pivotal Place: Southern China
• Pivotal Place: Western Balkans

The Fund awards a limited number of Philanthropic Stewardship and Special Opportunities grants that support nonprofit infrastructure organizations and help to further the Fund’s mission. The Fund is unable to support unsolicited applications in these areas.

Please also see What We Do Not Fund.

Pocantico Conferences

For information about the Fund’s support for conferences at the Pocantico Center, please see Pocantico’s eligibility guidelines.