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The family’s fortune, established by America’s first billionaire John D. Rockefeller Sr., the founder of the Standard Oil ...

it was a permanent corporate philanthropy on a scale never before seen — a charitable trust to parallel the oil trust that had made it possible. The Rockefeller Foundation has given away about ...