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For almost forty years, the Rockefeller Family Fund has worked at the cutting edge of advocacy in such areas as environmental protection, advancing the economic rights of women, and helping citizens hold public and private institutions accountable for their actions. The Fund is best known for its creative and leveraged grantmaking, its role as a catalyst in the nonprofit as well as the funding communities, and its record of public policy innovation. The RFF was incorporated in 1967 by Martha, John, Laurance, Nelson, and David Rockefeller. The board of trustees is comprised of members of the Rockefeller Family.
Programs
At present, the Family Fund has four program areas: Citizen Participation and Government Accountability, Economic Justice for Women, Environment, and Institutional Responsiveness. Within these program areas, RFF supports advocacy programs of national significance that are likely to yield tangible public policy results.
Affirmative grantmaking is at the heart of Rockefeller philanthropy, and it is one of the main reasons the Fund has consistently demonstrated influence disproportionate to its size. The Fund has been able to recognize strategic opportunities and move expeditiously to take advantage of them. Staff are constantly working to identify and develop these opportunities with its nonprofit and foundation colleagues. The Fund's approach to grantmaking has succeeded by emphasizing citizen participation in the policymaking process, and improving public institutions' responsiveness to the citizens they serve.