About the Rockefeller Family Fund

A Generational Vision to Tackle Our Biggest Challenges

The Rockefeller Family Fund is a U.S.-based, family-led public charity that initiates, cultivates, and funds strategic efforts to promote a sustainable, just, free, and participatory society.

For more than half a century, the Rockefeller Family Fund has carried forward the family’s legacy of cutting-edge philanthropy. RFF has creatively pushed philanthropic boundaries to pursue solutions to some of society’s biggest challenges, including climate change, threats to democracy and inequality. RFF’s strategic vision and willingness to take risks led it to become the first philanthropy to change its tax status from a private foundation to a public charity in 1991. Our blended approach combines the influence of a grantmaking institution with the nimbleness of an advocacy organization.

RFF works at multiple levels to drive social change – identifying the transformative steps that aren’t being taken, galvanizing the right players to take the lead, providing seed funding, working as strategic partners, and recruiting other funders and allies to help our efforts grow. RFF's staff of issue experts and strategists develop initiatives by partnering with national and state-based organizations, leaders, experts, and other funders to limit climate change and hold polluters accountable, build and sustain a multiracial democracy in the United States, and promote economic equity for women.