Rockefeller Foundation is a philanthropic organization chartered in 1913. It sponsors programs to fight hunger, to improve health, to provide education and jobs, and to deal with the problems of overpopulation and environmental degradation. It works to ensure that poor people share in the benefits of new technology and global changes. It also seeks to preserve and support the world’s many forms of culture and creative arts.
In the United States, for example, some foundation programs work to provide equal opportunities for minority groups, to improve public education, and to encourage international and intercultural understanding through the arts and the humanities. Aid is given through grants to agencies and cooperative projects, and through fellowships.
John D. Rockefeller originally provided an endowment of $100 million for the foundation. Later, he increased it to more than $183 million. The foundation’s offices are in New York City.
