RF Catalytic Capital (RFCC)

RFCC leverages The Rockefeller Foundation’s expertise and aggregates capital to multiply impact

Addressing the world’s most critical problems will cost trillions of dollars. That amount far exceeds the individual reach of traditional philanthropies or most governments. RF Catalytic Capital (RFCC) allows a range of stakeholders to partner better together to address these funding gaps.

A charitable offshoot of The Rockefeller Foundation, RFCC’s mission is to channel funding to places and people in a faster and more efficient manner, serving both investors and recipients with visionary solutions that help solve today’s most urgent challenges.

RFCC allows social innovators, impact investors, and governments to combine their financing toward shared ventures and projects. We provide the support and core infrastructure — legal counsel, IT, Salesforce, finance, grants, contracts, donor and program management — that enables project innovators to focus on implementation and scale.

What RFCC does

  • 1Mobilize: We leverage our network and convening power to bring together a range of stakeholders with impact and grant capital for existing and new initiatives.
  • 2Accelerate: We provide expertise to set projects up for success with measurable impact and fast deployment.
  • 3Partner: We partner with project teams to provide project life cycle support — through initiation, incubation and spin-off.

Related Initiatives

Since incorporating in September 2020, RFCC has scaled up solutions in Food, Health, Power & Climate and Reframing the Global Financial System.

  • Economic Opportunity Coalition
    The Economic Opportunity Coalition is a public-private partnership with the federal government designed to align and catalyze investments in underserved communities.
  • Invest in Our Future
    Invest in Our Future brings together philanthropic organizations around a collective effort to ensure that the clean energy economy benefits all Americans.
  • Periodic Table of Food Initiative
    The Periodic Table of Food Initiative provides standardized tools, data, and training to map food quality of the world’s edible biodiversity.
  • Project ACT
    ACT – Access Covid Tests – provides individuals in highly vulnerable communities the ability to order free Covid-19 tests that are then delivered directly to their home.
  • The Global Energy Alliance for People and Planet (GEAPP)
    GEAPP catalyzes a just energy transition by mobilizing public and private capital to reach one billion people with reliable, abundant, clean power across multiple continents.

Financial Statements and Tax Documents

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Our People

Board Members

The RFCC Board is made up of two independent board members and three Rockefeller Foundation staff members who serve in parallel to their roles at the Foundation. This includes Natalye Pacquin who serves as President and Board Chair; Erica Guyer who serves as the Secretary and Keith Olson who serves as the Treasurer.

Erica Guyer
General Counsel and Corporate Secretary
Robert Hillman
Director, RFCC Board
Keith Olson
Chief Financial Officer
Natalye Paquin
Chief Operating Officer
Gerry Watson
Director, RFCC Board
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