UNDUE INFLUENCE

Jackson Hole
Preserve, Inc.
a
Rockefeller foundation

Undue Influence by Ron Arnold

Jackson Hole Preserve Inc.
30 Rockefeller Plaza. Rm. 5600
New York, NY 10112
Telephone: (212) 649-5819
Contact: Carmen Reyes - Treasurer
Private non-operating foundation
Fiscal Date: 12/31/97
1996 income: $1,098,870
Assets: $6,934,745
Total Giving: $881,000
EIN:131813818
Founded: 1940; Exempt since: April 1942
Files: Form 990PF
One of the Rockefeller "Mother Ships of the environmental movement."
Donated $500,000 to American Conservation Association, March 31, 1999.
Approved payment of $1,000,000 to ACA for 2000.

Officers, Directors and Trustees

  • Laurance S. Rockefeller, Honorary Chairman of the Board
  • Clayton N. Frye, Jr., Chairman and President
  • Antonia W. Grumbach, Secretary   Grumbach is an attorney with Patterson, Belknap, Webb & Tyler LLP, 1133 Avenue of the Americas, New York NY 10036-6710. She serves without salary but she is a partner in a firm that has received legal fees for services performed during the year.
  • Carmen Reyes, Treasurer  Compensation is as a part time employee (17 1/2 hours per week) rather than an officer. Salary $38,000, benefits $8,740.
  • Nash Castro, Trustee. The Office Center at Montebello, 400 Rella Blvd., Suite 115, Suffern, New York 10901.
  • Henry L. Diamond, Trustee. Beveridge & Diamond. Suite 700, 1350 I Street, NW, Washington, D.C. 20005. Salary $75,000, benefits $18,000.
  • Donal C. O'Brien, Jr., Trustee. Milbank, Tweed, Hadley & McCloy, 1 Chase Manhattan Plaza, New York, NY l0005
  • Ellen R. C. Pomeroy, Trustee. 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York 10112

Assets and investment portfolio, 1999

Rockefeller Balanced Fund                  $6,304,718
Draper Associates II - LP                      $147,761
Draper Fisher Jurvetson Fund V - LLP      $669,010
Rockefeller Taxable Bond Fund II               - 0 -
New Era of Networks, Inc                     $104,489
New Capital Group, Inc.                         $18,921
TOTAL                                           $7,224,899

Grants paid and approved, 1999 and 2000

Friends of the Hudson Valley, 189 Church Street, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 Costs of Publication of Hudson Valley books   $30,000

Greater Yellowstone Coalition, P.O. Box 1874, Bozeman, Montana 59771 - General Budget   $10,000

Historic Hudson Valley, 150 White Plains Road, Tarrytown, New York 10590 - General Budget   $25,000 in 1999, $25,000 in 2000

Jackson Hole Conservation Alliance, previously Jackson Hole Alliance for Responsible Planning - Box 2728, Jackson, Wyoming 83001 - General Budget  $10,000

Jackson Hole Land Trust, P.O BOX 2897, Jackson, Wyoming 83001 - General Budget    $35,000 in 1999, $35,000 in 2000

National Fish & Wlldlife Foundation, 1120 Connecticut Avenue, NW, Suite 900, Washington D.C. 20036 - General Budget      $10,000

American Conservation Association„ Inc., 30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, New York 10112 - Private Operating Foundation, General Budget        $500,000 in 1999, $1,000,000 in 2000

American Rivers, 801 Pennsylvania Ave. S.E., Suite 400, Washington, DC. 20003 - Greater Yellowstone Campaign     $10,000

Conservancy for for Historic Battery Park, 20 Broadway, Suite 3340, New York, New York 10271 - Restoration Battery Park and Castle       $10,000

The Conservation Fund, 1800 North Kent Street, Suite 1120, Arlington, Virginia      11109 - Conservation Curriculum Cost publication California Land Legacy   $25,000

The Environmentors Project, 5301 Broad Branch Road, NW, Washington D.C. 20015 - Costs of developing an educational manual or web site for students    $25,000

Fordham University Press, 2456 Belmont Avenue, University -Box L, Bronx New York 10458-5172 - Publication The Essential William H. Whyte    $18,200

National Parks & Conservation Association, 1776 Massachusetts. Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20036-1904 - General Budget       $50,000

National Park Foundation, 1101 Seventeenth Street NW, Suite 1102, Washington D.C. 20036 - Working Capital Revolving Fund     $250,000

Natural Resources Council of America, 1025 Thomas Jefferson Street, N W Suite 109, Washington D.C. 20007-0411 - General Budget    $10,000

Rails-to-Trails,1400 Sixteenth Street, N.W., Suite 30000000, Washington D.C. 20036 - "Rail-banking" Campaign Transportation Policy Reform     $35,000

Scenic America, 21 Dupont Circle, NW, Washington D. C. 20036 - Billboard Control Handbook      $10,000 in 1999, 10,000 in 2000

Scenic Hudson Inc., 9 Vassar Street, Poughkeepsie, New York 12601 - Promote tourism and revitalization in the Hudson       $30,000 in 1999, $50,000 in 2000

 

South Street Seaport Museum, 207 Front Street, New York, New York 10038 - General Budget   $25,000 in 1999, $10,000 in 2000

 

Urban Land Institute, 1025 Thomas Jefferson St NW, Suite 500 West, Washington D.C. 20007-5201 - Collaboration with Conservation Fund to foster development      $25,000 in 1999, $75,000 in 2000

 

Wildlife Conservation Society, 185th Street & Southern Boulevard, Bronx, New York 10460 - Conservation re Greater Yellowstone         $45,000 in 2000

TOTAL GRANTS                                                                           

$880,000 in 1999                          $1,538,200 in 2000

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