Who is behind Rockefeller Foundation?
Shows documented founders, leaders, board members, funders and owners.
Not who made decisions, or why.
A connection is not evidence of wrongdoing.
On the record
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Founded by
- John D. Rockefeller founded 1913 Scholarship & press 1
Board
- John D. Rockefeller Jr. board member of 1914 Primary record 2
- A. Barton Hepburn board member of 1915 Primary record 3
Proof 3 sources
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Rockefeller, John D., Encyclopedia of Cleveland History, Case Western Reserve University.
Scholarship & press
Rockefeller established several organizations to handle his giving: the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research (1901), the General Education Board (1902), the Rockefeller Foundation (1913), and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial (1918).
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Statement of John D. Rockefeller, Jr., before the United States Commission on Industrial Relations, January 25, 1915, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (scan via Internet Archive), 25 Jan 1915.
Primary record
to my colleagues in the Rockefeller Foundation the instituting of a series of studies into the fundamental problems arising out of industrial relations
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Industrial Relations: Final Report and Testimony, Vol. IX (Colorado strike, foundations and industrial control; testimony of J. P. Morgan, Andrew Carnegie and John D. Rockefeller, Sr.), U.S. Commission on Industrial Relations (scan via Internet Archive), 1916.
Primary record
A. Barton Hepburn, chairman of the board of directors. Chase National Bank; formerly president, New York Chamber of Commerce.
One of them, Mr. A. Barton Hepburn, is a director of the Rockefeller Foundation.
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