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This spring, art students from Sleepy Hollow High School are experiencing what it’s like to create in a professional art studio thanks to a Community Arts Residency grant through the Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

The Rockefeller Brothers Fund Board of Trustees announced it would confer upon Stephen Heintz the title of president emeritus—a distinction that has never before been granted in the organization's history. 

TIME has named Charlie Brown, executive director of the Trust for Civic Life, to the 2026 TIME100 Philanthropy list, which recognizes the most influential leaders shaping the future of giving.

Free and low-cost performances, exhibitions, tours, and workshops will explore themes of renewal and reimagination.

From the River Journal: The Rockefeller Brothers Fund will open two installations at The Pocantico Center in Tarrytown this spring that celebrate modern art, history, and collaboration.

Woven Wonders: Kykuit’s Picasso Tapestries spotlights eight large-scale textile renderings of Picasso paintings from Nelson Rockefeller’s collection. An outdoor Sculpture Walk features pieces from The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), co-founded by Abby Aldrich Rockefeller. Both open May 29 and are free to the public.

Our philanthropic efforts have supported independent civic actors leveraging international legal and governance mechanisms on behalf of victims and survivors to push for transparency and justice where their own governments have failed.

Today’s mix of hyper-capitalism, concentrations of economic and technological power, and impaired and imperiled democracy is undermining the common good.

The Fund in 2025: Shoulder to Shoulder reflects on a year of unprecedented challenges, where the RBF and its grantees drew on decades of investment in civil society and the strength of collective action.

The fall 2025 Composers Now and Asian Cultural Council (ACC) residency brought composer Younje Cho and filmmaker Renu Savant to Pocantico.