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The Rockefeller Foundation has launched an ambitious whole-of-foundation strategy that is tackling the many ways a shifting climate impacts vulnerable communities. We collaborate with unlikely partners across sectors to define priorities, craft partnerships and advance strategies towards scaling people-centered climate solutions. Each step of the way, we build on what we’ve learned from our experience changing food, health, energy, and finance systems over the Foundation’s 110-year history. Consistent with our model and approach, grantmaking is one of many tools the Foundation uses to transform systems, and we do not accept unsolicited grant proposals out of respect for your time.

Use our database to explore active and past grants by commitment and grant amount within the past 5 years. This database undergoes regularly scheduled updates—please refer to the Foundation’s 990-PF documents for the complete list of all individual grants.

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Awarded Apr 30-2020
Sustainable Energy for All 2020
toward the costs of establishing an efficient prototype mechanism for Results Based Financing to mini-grid developers in Africa, in order to help them achieve scale and catalyze private investment.
    $1,500,000
    Awarded Mar 02-2020
    University of Pennsylvania 2020
    for use by its Perelman School of Medicine in support of research and public presentations on Resilience and Individual and Social Impact
      $1,138,238
      Awarded Dec 09-2019
      Benefits Data Trust 2019
      in support of tech-enabled solutions for streamlining access to key benefits and services to eligible populations across the U.S.
        $5,000,000
        Awarded Dec 02-2019
        University of Massachusetts, Amherst 2019
        in support of its e-GUIDE Nigeria initiative, an effort to estimate latent demand for electricity in Nigeria to help identify future opportunities for investments and accelerate the replacement of generators with cheaper, cleaner sources of electricity
          $2,000,000
          Awarded Nov 26-2019
          Meridian Institute 2019
          toward the cost of building datasets for machine learning to address bias and inequity in existing models
            $1,000,000
            Awarded Nov 19-2019
            World Bank 2019
            for use by its Energy Sector Management Assistance Program (ESMAP) toward the costs of establishing a targeted program for stimulating electricity demand in order to accelerate energy access in up to four African countries
              $1,400,000
              Awarded Nov 19-2019
              Boston University 2019
              for use by its School of Public Health for research, the development of a website and a commission report on health determinants, data and decision-making, designed to increase the use of data-driven insights to improve the health of vulnerable people
                $2,500,000
                Awarded Oct 28-2019
                Spelman College 2019
                in support of a program to advance talented Spelman faculty by investing in their professional development, seeding their research and reducing demands on their time
                  $500,000
                  Awarded Sep 24-2019
                  Total Impact Capital 2019
                  in support of designing and launching an asset-backed financing platform to facilitate the financing of small- and medium-sized enterprises in the pharmaceutical sector in Kenya in an effort to enhance access to medications
                    $395,847