Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The Rockefeller Foundation is a private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. It was established by the six-generation Rockefeller family. The Foundation was started by Standard Oil owner John D. Rockefeller (\"Senior\"), along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (\"Junior\"), and Senior's principal oil and gas business and philanthropic advisor, Frederick Taylor Gates, in New York State on May 14, 1913, when its charter was formally accepted by the New York State Legislature. Its stated mission is \"promoting the well-being of humanity throughout the world.\"Its activities have included: Financially supported education in the United States \"without distinction of race, sex or creed\" Helped establish the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom; Established the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Harvard School of Public Health, two of the first such institutions in the United States; Established the School of Hygiene at the University of Toronto in 1927; Developed the vaccine to prevent yellow fever; Helped The New School provide a haven for scholars threatened by the NazisSome of its infamous activities include: Funding various German eugenics programs, including the laboratory of Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, for whom Josef Mengele worked before he went to Auschwitz. Construction of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute's Institute for Brain Research with a $317,000 grant in 1929, with continuing support for the Institute's operations under Ernst Rüdin over the next several years.As of 2015, the Foundation was ranked as the 39th largest U.S. foundation by total giving. By year-end 2008 assets were tallied at $3.1 billion from $4.6 billion in 2007, with annual grants of $137 million."@en }
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- Rockefeller_Foundation abstract "The Rockefeller Foundation is a private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. It was established by the six-generation Rockefeller family. The Foundation was started by Standard Oil owner John D. Rockefeller (\"Senior\"), along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr. (\"Junior\"), and Senior's principal oil and gas business and philanthropic advisor, Frederick Taylor Gates, in New York State on May 14, 1913, when its charter was formally accepted by the New York State Legislature. Its stated mission is \"promoting the well-being of humanity throughout the world.\"Its activities have included: Financially supported education in the United States \"without distinction of race, sex or creed\" Helped establish the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine in the United Kingdom; Established the Johns Hopkins School of Public Health and Harvard School of Public Health, two of the first such institutions in the United States; Established the School of Hygiene at the University of Toronto in 1927; Developed the vaccine to prevent yellow fever; Helped The New School provide a haven for scholars threatened by the NazisSome of its infamous activities include: Funding various German eugenics programs, including the laboratory of Otmar Freiherr von Verschuer, for whom Josef Mengele worked before he went to Auschwitz. Construction of the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute's Institute for Brain Research with a $317,000 grant in 1929, with continuing support for the Institute's operations under Ernst Rüdin over the next several years.As of 2015, the Foundation was ranked as the 39th largest U.S. foundation by total giving. By year-end 2008 assets were tallied at $3.1 billion from $4.6 billion in 2007, with annual grants of $137 million.".