The Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a major American philanthropic organization founded by the Rockefeller family that provides grants and funding for scientific research, social science, and cultural projects, including noted support for early radio and communications research in the 1930s.

Claims that use this term

• The Rockefeller Foundation refused to fund independent Frankfurt Institute research
• The Rockefeller Foundation funded a Princeton radio research project with $67,000 in 1937.
• The Rockefeller Foundation terminated Adorno’s radio music study over his destructive critique.
• The Rockefeller Foundation refused to fund Marcuse’s German-American anthropology project.