Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation

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The Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation is a Little Rock nonprofit that awards economic development, education, and social justice grants to Arkansans. In 2007 the foundation had assets totaling $155 million. The president of The Winrock Foundation is Sybil J. Hampton.

By 2000 about $37 million in funding to the foundation had come from the Winthrop Rockefeller Charitable Trust.

The foundation was originally called the Rockwin Fund. The name was changed in December 1974 some months after Winthrop Rockefeller's death.

References

    • John L. Ward, Winthrop Rockefeller, Philanthropist: A Life of Change (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2004), 77.

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