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In operation until 1982, the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music provided critical scholarship and grant support to solo artists and ensembles for a quarter of a century before it was dissolved. [ 1 ] [ 8 ]
Martha Baird Rockefeller, the second wife and widow of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (JDR Jr.), was a world-class classical pianist in the 1920s who gave concerts throughout the United States and Europe.
The Fund also contributed Hillcrest, the former home of Martha Baird Rockefeller in Sleepy Hollow, New York, and funded its renovation from personal residence to state-of-the-art archival facility.
Mar 30, 2017 · The first was Hillcrest, the Westchester estate of JDR, Jr.’s second wife, Martha Baird Rockefeller. Upon her death in 1971, she left the 30-acre property to the RBF. In 1974, the Fund approved the use of the house for a state-of-the-art archive on philanthropy, financed its physical conversion, and gave the new Rockefeller Archive Center ...
Feb 12, 1977 · The Rockefeller Brothers Fund handed over $4.5 million three years ago for conversion to archives, and arranged for carefully landscaped construction, adjoining the house, of 11 concrete vaults.
Nov 2, 2019 · As an independent organization, the Center Opera Company continued to receive support from the Martha Baird Rockefeller Fund for Music, as well as from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Ford Foundation, among many other donors.
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The Rockefeller Archive Center (RAC) was established in 1974 as the result of efforts by the children of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. to gather in one institution the records of their family’s philanthropic work and to stimulate research into the ways in which these philanthropic efforts had impacted the nation and the world.
