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A Generational Vision to Tackle our Biggest Challenges

Who We Are

The Rockefeller Family Fund's staff of issue experts and strategists work across three program areas to develop and implement initiatives and make grants in partnership with national and state-based organizations, leaders, experts, and other funders.

Limit Climate Change & Hold Polluters Accountable

We are directly and publicly fighting to slow the production of oil and gas and hold the industry accountable for climate damages.

Build & Sustain Multiracial Democracy in the United States

We help research, develop and test strategies to build and sustain a multiracial democracy in the United States.

Achieve Economic Equity for Women

We are making a family-friendly economic agenda a reality by supporting a diverse coalition of women.

RFF works at multiple levels to drive social change – identifying necessary transformative steps, galvanizing the right organizations and individuals to lead, providing seed funding, working as strategic partners, and recruiting other funders and allies to help our efforts grow.

News & Updates

Lee Wasserman Receives 2025 EGA Donald K. Ross Founders Award
Institutional

Lee Wasserman Receives 2025 EGA Donald K. Ross Founders Award

The Environment Grantmakers Association announced today that it awarded its third annual Donald K. Ross Founders Award to RFF Director Lee Wasserman. In their announcement, EGA writes "Lee Wasserman is an inspiring, innovative, and bold leader whose advocacy efforts have held the fossil fuel industry to account for their willful damage to the environment. As Director of the Rockefeller...

Hahrie Han, DPI Partner and Collaborator, receives MacArthur Genius Grant
Democracy

Hahrie Han, DPI Partner and Collaborator, receives MacArthur Genius Grant

Hahrie Han, a political scientist at Johns Hopkins University and longtime collaborator of the Democracy and Power Innovation Fund, has been named one of 22 recipients of a 2025 MacArthur Fellowship, among the nation's most prestigious and significant recognitions. 

Over the past 20 years, Hahrie has led groundbreaking research to demonstrate that base-building organizing provides the...

Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas Launches Six-Part Series in the Stanford Social Innovation Review
Climate

Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas Launches Six-Part Series in the Stanford Social Innovation Review

Funder Collaborative on Oil and Gas

Across the country, communities are crossing political divides and uniting against the oil and gas industry. The Funder Collaborative’s new series in the Stanford Social Innovation Review shares stories of those who are fighting to hold the industry accountable, ideas for how we can nurture this growing social movement, and insights for repairing our civic life.  
 
The first...