The Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation was established in 1913 by John D. Rockefeller, Sr. as a taxfree "philanthropy" shortly after the legislation of income tax and a court order to dissolve the...
...Resrch & Extension Serv...
...For a listing (by organization) of all charitable, educational, religious, scientific and public contributions by John D. Rockefeller, Jr., which aggregate $100,000 or over between January 1917 and December 1959, see The New York Herald Tribune, May 12, 1960...
...211,397 Venezuela funds-administered by Creole foundation, AIA, and other Rockefeller philanthropies...
...of the West Indies...
...31,1928 Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Va...
...6,321 Univ...
...32, 34...
...Resrch...
...Agric...
...Instit...
...of Sao Paulo...
...31,1960 48,030,088 June 30,1960 111,848,179 Dec...
...of San Marcos...
...2,369 Univ...
...Agricultural Instit...
...58,160 Oct...
...19,484 .. 4,976 .. 3,500 .. 4,583 .. 12,495 .150,064 Chile - Total: $1,227,353 Agriculture Research Instit...
...of Agric...
...270 million (1.8 percent of outstanding stock) Standard Oil (Ind...
...21,258,515 Dec...
...Jan...
...119,438 Univ...
...119,161 Cncil of Rectors of Chilean Univs...
...John Foster Dulles was chairman of the foundation from 1950-52 before becoming Secretary of State for seven years...
...69,952,566...
...THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION As of December 31, 1967 Total Assets: $805 million...
...Total...
...Secretaries of State...
...Totals represent figures as given in the Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report, 1967...
...as a taxfree "philanthropy" shortly after the legislation of income tax and a court order to dissolve the Standard Oil trust...
...The foundation has provided two of the last four U.S...
...He married into the Pratt family, descendants of one of John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s original associates in Standard Oil...
...Source: The President's Review & Annual Report, 1967...
...7,000 Internat'l Center of Tropical Agric.66,295 Nat'l Univ...
...31,1929 Agricultural Development Council, Inc...
...Univ...
...of the Andes...
...of Agric...
...1 (Wright Patman, chairman), Select Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, 90th Congress, March 26, 1968, pp...
...of the State of Santa Cruz 19,347 Peru - Total: $317,315 Agrarian University...
...1,452,146 Dec...
...1, 084, 390,041...
...Univ...
...Christian Herter, who filled the post in the State Department for a short period between Dulles and Rusk, was also a representative of Rockefeller interests...
...1,429, 963, 726 Source: "Tax Exempt Foundations and Charitable Trusts: Their Impact on Our Economy," 6th installment, Subcommittee Chairman's Report to Subcommittee No...
...of San Carlos...
...536,022,187 ....- do...
...oil companies which depend on foreign operations for half their profits, it is understandable that the foundation would "spend fully 75 percent of its revenue on the I-22creation of elites, modernization of infrastructures and purchase of goodwill overseas...
...18,700 Univ...
...Univ...
...Alberto Lleras Camargo, former president of Colombia (1945-46 and 1958-62) and current editorial board chairman of Visi6n (the Time of Latin America), was named a Foundation trustee in 1967...
...244,693 Catholic Univ...
...of Agriculture...214,334 Fundacion para la Educacion Superior...
...11,863...
...of Rio Grande do Sul...
...Univ...
...of Parana...
...By 1967, the foundation's capital had mushroomed to $805 million...
...24,424 Univ...
...37,600 Colombian Instit...
...Fellowships, scholarships, cooperative programs and "other support" have been included in country totals...
...7,508 Colombia - Total: $2,037,819 Colombian Ass'n of Faculties of Medicine...
...Rural Univ...
...of Monterrey...
...Univ...
...20, 000 July 3,1946 China Medical Board of New York...
...Over half of these assets were held in stock of three companies formed from the original Standard Oil Trust: Standard Oil (N.J...
...164,483 Mexican Center of Writers...
...of Buenos Aires...
...31,1960 $413, 865 56, 538, 632 109, 222, 086 6, 338, 187 5, 784, 367 29,820 190, 967, 245 736, 222, 598 249, 182,875 9,368,160 Dec...
...20, 937, 722 Do...
...Ecuador - Total: $144,281 Central University...
...89,387 SCHEDULE 8.-ROCKEFELLER-CONTROLLED FOUNDATIONS-VALUE OF ASSETS Value of assets as of the end Value of assets as of last date Value of assets as of earliest of calendar or fiscal year available, using market date available 1960, using market value value of securities wherFoundation of securities wherever ever available available Amount Date Amount Date Amount Date American International Association for Economic and Social Development, New York...
...51,270 Internat'l Maize & Wheat Improvement Center...
...1 In fact, the Rockefeller Foundation gives more grants for such overseas projects than any other U.S...
...1,962,977 Nov...
...On the other hand, Nixon's science advisor, Leslie DuBridge, and his Secretary of Agriculture, Clifford Hardin, were both trustees of the foundation in 1967...
...of Nutrit'n Equip...
...of Valle...
...11,994 70,709 Mexico - Total: $918,791 Colegio de Mexico...
...4,500 Nat'l Instit...
...31, 1966 14, 865,000...
...do...
...of Minas Gerais...
...131,221,485...
...of Costa Rica...
...250, 790...
...35,965,384 Dec...
...of Antioquia...
...31,1913 Rockefeller Institute, New York...
...Ramparts' description is equally applicable to the "university reform" programs financed by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in Latin America over the last decade...
...52,361 Brazil - Total: $463,088 Brazilian Society of Genetics...
...Argentina - Total: $148,618 Nat'l Instit...
...of Minas Gerais...
...54,500 Univ...
...Jamaica - Total: $72,850 Univ...
...Dean Rusk served as president of the foundation for nine years before becoming Secretary of State for eight...
...The initial capital of the foundation, $36 million, was composed of large blocs of stock in the main successor companies of the original oil trust...
...57,695 Inst...
...of Colombia...
...181,996 17,774 26,780 Trinidad - Total: $221,278 Univ...
...8,686,345 June 30,1911 Sealantic Fund, Inc., New York...
...Univ...
...30,1951 Standard O11l (Indiana) Foundation, Inc., Chicago, IL...
...31,1960 3, 925, 713...
...Juno 30,1966 Dec...
...of the West Indies...
...138,455 Nat'l Instit...
...435 Nat'l School of Agriculture...
...of Chile...
...31,1966 Do...
...31,1939 Sleepy Hollow Restorations, Inc., Irvington, N. Y...
...30, 676 Do...
...of Chile...
...24,103, 204...
...1,827 Guyana - Total: $6,611 Ministry of External Affairs...
...164,635 Dec...
...May 21,1952 Rockwin Fund, Morrilton, Ark...
...The Rockefeller Foundation functions as an important groomer of top policymakers of America...
...26,1956 S748,206 Dec...
...Colombia, a major producer of oil in Latin America and the proposed site for a new interoceanic canal (a project David Rockefeller is particularly interested in), received the largest Rockefeller Foundation grants of any country in Latin America in 1967 (see chart below...
...His son, Christian Herter, Jr., was manager of Mobil Oil's government relations during the 1960's and is currently a Mobil vice-president...
...2,246 Nat'l Agricultural Research Instit...
...of Mexico...
...Technology.$ 854 Torcuato di Tella Instit...
...Two recent articles in Ramparts (April and May 1969) have documented how the major American foundations, particularly Ford, Carnegie and Rockefeller, have restructured American higher education to service the needs of the corporate economy...
...44,927,493 Do...
...198,991,880 June 30,1961 12,427,599 Dec...
...31,1954 Esso Education Foundation, New York...
...1,117,456 Costa Rica - Total: $12,905 Univ...
...of Concepcion...
...67,363 Nat'l Univ...
...In Latin America, the foundation's main focus is agricultural research, population control and university "modernization" (i.e., creation of Americanized elites...
...31,902 Technol...
...31,1955 Government Affairs Foundation, Albany, N.Y ..- 131,851 Dec...
...456,237 Univ...
...His cousin, Carlos Lleras Restrepo is currently president of Colombia...
...foundation...
...do ......1,943,847...
...3, 787 Dec...
...The current president of the foundation, J. George Harrar, reportedly turned down the Secretaryship of State when President-Elect Nixon offered it to him...
...2,254 Honduras - Total: $30,287 Pan Amer...
...31,1953 Rockefeller Brothers Fund, New York...
...of Cuyo...
...of Bahia...
...31,1966 June 30,1966 Dec...
...of Agronomy, Sao Paulo...
...27,711 Univ...
...9,700 Fed...
...120 Guatemala - Total: $16,416 Univ...
...248,766 Dec...
...31,1941 Rockefeller Foundation, New York...
...108.3 million (2.8 percent of outstanding stock) Mobil Oil 25.6 million (.6 percent of outstanding stock) TOTAL $403.9 million Total 1967 appropriations: $39 million Total appropriations to Latin America: over $5.5 million, or approximately 15 percent of overall appropriations in 1967.-23ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION GRANTS IN LATIN AMERICA FOR 1967 Readers should bear in mind that the Rockefeller Foundation often, if not usually, gives grants in collusion with other foundations, government agencies and international aid organizations...
...With over half the foundation's (and presumably, the Rockefellers') income generated by U.S...
...The Ford Foundation, among others, has many joint projects with the Rockefeller Foundation...
...formerly Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs), New York...
...The foundation was one of the many mechanisms the Rockefeller family and other Standard Oil families have utilized to retain control of the various companies created out of the original Standard Oil trust, and to avoid heavy taxes...
...Bolivia, Nicaragua and Uruguay have been excluded from this tabulation because of the small size of the grants to those countries...
Vol. 3 • April 1969 • No. 2
