It also came from individuals and groups including the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Foundation.

VOA: special.2009.09.28

The program received financial support from a private group, the Rockefeller Foundation.

VOA: special.2009.11.10

The awards are funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. Judith Rodin of the Rockefeller Foundation said finding innovative ideas and expanding them to a large scale has proven to be hugely effective.

VOA: standard.2010.04.28

In 1944,when many experts warned of mass starvation in developing nations where populations were expanding faster than crop production, Borlaug began work at a Rockefeller Foundation-funded project in Mexico to increase wheat production by developing higher-yielding varieties of the crop.

VOA: standard.2009.09.13