La Fundació Rockefeller, Rockefeller Foundation, és una fundació filantròpica privada amb seu a la 420 Fifth Avenue, de la ciutat de Nova York.[2] Va ser fundada pel propietari de la companyia Standard Oil, John D. Rockefeller («senior»), junt amb el seu fill John D. Rockefeller, Jr. («junior»), i per Frederick Taylor Gates, a l'Estat de Nova York el 14 de maig de 1913.[3] Des de fa cent anys s'ha dedicat a la missió de «promoure el benestar de la humanitat a tot el món».[1]
Berman, Edward H. The Ideology of Philanthropy: The influence of the Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller foundations on American foreign policy, New York: State University of New York Press, 1983.
Chernow, Ron, Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., London: Warner Books, 1998.
Dowie, Mark, American Foundations: An Investigative History, Boston: The MIT Press, 2001.
Fisher, Donald, Fundamental Development of the Social Sciences: Rockefeller Philanthropy and the United States Social Science Research Council, Michigan: University of Michigan Press, 1993.
Fosdick, Raymond B., John D. Rockefeller, Jr., A Portrait, New York: Harper & Brothers, 1956.
Fosdick, Raymond B., The Story of the Rockefeller Foundation, New York: Transaction Publishers, Reprint, 1989.
Harr, John Ensor, and Peter J. Johnson. The Rockefeller Century: Three Generations of America's Greatest Family. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1988.
Harr, John Ensor, and Peter J. Johnson. The Rockefeller Conscience: An American Family in Public and in Private, New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1991.
Jonas, Gerald. The Circuit Riders: Rockefeller Money and the Rise of Modern Science. New York: W.W. Norton and Co., 1989.
Kay, Lily, The Molecular Vision of Life: Caltech, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Rise of the New Biology, Nova York: Oxford University Press, 1993.
Lawrence, Christopher. Rockefeller Money, the Laboratory and Medicine in Edinburgh 1919-1930: New Science in an Old Country, Rochester Studies in Medical History, University of Rochester Press, 2005.
Nielsen, Waldemar, The Big Foundations, Nova York: Cambridge University Press, 1973.
Nielsen, Waldemar A., The Golden Donors, E. P. Dutton, 1985. Called Foundation "unimaginative ... lacking leadership and 'slouching toward senility.'"
Rockefeller, David, Memoirs, New York: Random House, 2002.
Shaplen, Robert, Toward the Well-Being of Mankind: Fifty Years of the Rockefeller Foundation, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1964.
Theiler, Max and Downs, W. G., The Arthropod-Borne Viruses of Vertebrates: An Account of The Rockefeller Foundation Virus Program, 1951-1970. (1973) Yale University Press. New Haven and London. ISBN 0-300-01508-9.