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...
...Fellowships, scholarships, cooperative programs and "other support" have been included in country totals...
...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...
...of Minas Gerais...
...20, 937, 722 Do...
...Secretaries of State...
...Univ...
...7,000 Internat'l Center of Tropical Agric.66,295 Nat'l Univ...
...37,600 Colombian Instit...
...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...
...164,635 Dec...
...6,321 Univ...
...Bolivia, Nicaragua and Uruguay have been excluded from this tabulation because of the small size of the grants to those countries...
...11,863...
...Rural Univ...
...of Valle...
...With over half the foundation's (and presumably, the Rockefellers') income generated by U.S...
...Agricultural Instit...
...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...
...435 Nat'l School of Agriculture...
...Jan...
...20, 000 July 3,1946 China Medical Board of New York...
...44,927,493 Do...
...2,246 Nat'l Agricultural Research Instit...
...1 (Wright Patman, chairman), Select Committee on Small Business, House of Representatives, 90th Congress, March 26, 1968, pp...
...31,1960 48,030,088 June 30,1960 111,848,179 Dec...
...67,363 Nat'l Univ...
...Agric...
...Univ...
...of Monterrey...
...of Agric...
...THE ROCKEFELLER FOUNDATION As of December 31, 1967 Total Assets: $805 million...
...9,700 Fed...
...of Parana...
...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...
...foundation...
...164,483 Mexican Center of Writers...
...Instit...
...of the West Indies...
...52,361 Brazil - Total: $463,088 Brazilian Society of Genetics...
...30,1951 Standard O11l (Indiana) Foundation, Inc., Chicago, IL...
...1,452,146 Dec...
...of Chile...
...of Costa Rica...
...30, 676 Do...
...1 In fact, the Rockefeller Foundation gives more grants for such overseas projects than any other U.S...
...211,397 Venezuela funds-administered by Creole foundation, AIA, and other Rockefeller philanthropies...
...198,991,880 June 30,1961 12,427,599 Dec...
...18,700 Univ...
...31,1929 Agricultural Development Council, Inc...
...He married into the Pratt family, descendants of one of John D. Rockefeller Sr.'s original associates in Standard Oil...
...do...
...24,424 Univ...
...21,258,515 Dec...
...By 1967, the foundation's capital had mushroomed to $805 million...
...of Buenos Aires...
...of Sao Paulo...
...536,022,187 ....- do...
...131,221,485...
...of the West Indies...
...of Agric...
...27,711 Univ...
...3, 787 Dec...
...of Chile...
...The current president of the foundation, J. George Harrar, reportedly turned down the Secretaryship of State when President-Elect Nixon offered it to him...
...Ecuador - Total: $144,281 Central University...
...of Cuyo...
...of Agronomy, Sao Paulo...
...120 Guatemala - Total: $16,416 Univ...
...Technology.$ 854 Torcuato di Tella Instit...
...of Colombia...
...Univ...
...as a taxfree "philanthropy" shortly after the legislation of income tax and a court order to dissolve the Standard Oil trust...
...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...
...Total...
...58,160 Oct...
...of San Marcos...
...54,500 Univ...
...May 21,1952 Rockwin Fund, Morrilton, Ark...
...26,1956 S748,206 Dec...
...248,766 Dec...
...of Rio Grande do Sul...
...24,103, 204...
...31,1939 Sleepy Hollow Restorations, Inc., Irvington, N. Y...
...31,1960 3, 925, 713...
...2,254 Honduras - Total: $30,287 Pan Amer...
...Resrch & Extension Serv...
...Over half of these assets were held in stock of three companies formed from the original Standard Oil Trust: Standard Oil (N.J...
...1,962,977 Nov...
...of the Andes...
...31,1941 Rockefeller Foundation, New York...
...Univ...
...Ramparts' description is equally applicable to the "university reform" programs financed by the Rockefeller and Ford Foundations in Latin America over the last decade...
...formerly Council on Economic and Cultural Affairs), New York...
...Juno 30,1966 Dec...
...244,693 Catholic Univ...
...31,1913 Rockefeller Institute, New York...
...The Rockefeller Foundation functions as an important groomer of top policymakers of America...
...138,455 Nat'l Instit...
...In Latin America, the foundation's main focus is agricultural research, population control and university "modernization" (i.e., creation of Americanized elites...
...35,965,384 Dec...
...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...
...The Ford Foundation, among others, has many joint projects with the Rockefeller Foundation...
...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...
...of Antioquia...
...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...
...31, 1966 14, 865,000...
...31,1954 Esso Education Foundation, New York...
...2,369 Univ...
...11,994 70,709 Mexico - Total: $918,791 Colegio de Mexico...
...of Minas Gerais...
...1,827 Guyana - Total: $6,611 Ministry of External Affairs...
...of Mexico...
...31,1966 Do...
...Dean Rusk served as president of the foundation for nine years before becoming Secretary of State for eight...
...31,1928 Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Va...
...270 million (1.8 percent of outstanding stock) Standard Oil (Ind...
...of the State of Santa Cruz 19,347 Peru - Total: $317,315 Agrarian University...
...31,1966 June 30,1966 Dec...
...of Nutrit'n Equip...
...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...
...1,117,456 Costa Rica - Total: $12,905 Univ...
...of Bahia...
...The foundation has provided two of the last four U.S...
...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...
...7,508 Colombia - Total: $2,037,819 Colombian Ass'n of Faculties of Medicine...
...57,695 Inst...
...Source: The President's Review & Annual Report, 1967...
...19,484 .. 4,976 .. 3,500 .. 4,583 .. 12,495 .150,064 Chile - Total: $1,227,353 Agriculture Research Instit...
...31,902 Technol...
...Resrch...
...250, 790...
...31,1953 Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 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...
...51,270 Internat'l Maize & Wheat Improvement Center...
...8,686,345 June 30,1911 Sealantic Fund, Inc., New York...
...Totals represent figures as given in the Rockefeller Foundation Annual Report, 1967...
...Univ...
...4,500 Nat'l Instit...
...181,996 17,774 26,780 Trinidad - Total: $221,278 Univ...
...of San Carlos...
...John Foster Dulles was chairman of the foundation from 1950-52 before becoming Secretary of State for seven years...
...119,161 Cncil of Rectors of Chilean Univs...
...of Agriculture...214,334 Fundacion para la Educacion Superior...
...Jamaica - Total: $72,850 Univ...
...69,952,566...
...119,438 Univ...
...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...
...Univ...
...456,237 Univ...
...1, 084, 390,041...
...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...
...Argentina - Total: $148,618 Nat'l Instit...
...His son, Christian Herter, Jr., was manager of Mobil Oil's government relations during the 1960's and is currently a Mobil vice-president...
...31,1955 Government Affairs Foundation, Albany, N.Y ..- 131,851 Dec...
...32, 34...
...His cousin, Carlos Lleras Restrepo is currently president of Colombia...
...of Concepcion...
...do ......1,943,847...
Vol. 3 • April 1969 • No. 2
