Washington Free Beacon: Rockefeller Brothers Fund Sent Nearly $32 Million to China-Based Nonprofits, Watchdog Finds
‘Dangerous partnership with Communist China’ is detailed in new report
The Rockefeller Brothers Fund, a $1.4 billion U.S.-based charity with funding from the Rockefeller family and other donors, has forged a “dangerous partnership with Communist China” and is pouring millions of dollars into China-based nonprofits that are advancing the Chinese Communist Party’s foreign policy goals.
That’s one of the findings in a new report, “The Rockefeller Network: How the Rockefeller Family Turned Their Oil Fortune into Extreme Climate Activism,” out today from Americans for Public Trust, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative watchdog organization. The report, an advance copy of which was obtained exclusively by the Washington Free Beacon, outlines how the billion-dollar fortune of Standard Oil founder John D. Rockefeller Sr., who died in 1937, is being used “to quietly bankroll numerous radical and leftist projects.”
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“The Rockefeller name used to be a symbol of philanthropy, but they have transformed into a tool of the far left,” said the executive director of Americans for Public Trust, Caitlin Sutherland. “Between bankrolling China-based organizations connected to the Chinese Communist Party, including those driving the Belt and Road Initiative, and their climate activism and alarmism targeting the American energy sector, the Rockefeller Network is showing their true colors. It is long overdue for the Rockefeller Network to be exposed for the dangerous policies they are advocating for in America and around the world.”
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The report by Americans for Public Trust mines the tax returns, social media, and online records to unearth details about not only the Rockefeller Brothers Fund but about other branches of what the report describes as a “network.” The other entities—the Rockefeller Foundation, with an endowment of more than $5 billion; the Rockefeller Family Fund; and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors—are “distinct legal organizations,” but “have all ditched their philanthropic roots in pursuit of climate activism, lobbying, bankrolling left-wing agendas, and working with Communist China,” the report says.
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Among other highlights of the report:
— Rockefeller Foundation CEO Rajiv Shah, whose 2024 compensation was more than $1.7 million, has “been criticized for being one of the highest paid CEOs among big foundations.” The foundation promised an investigation of its past history funding the pseudoscience of eugenics, but never publicly released any such study.
— Despite announcing a divestment in 2014, “as of December 31, 2025—over 10 years after … RBF amazingly still remains extensively invested in fossil fuels.”
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