Open The fund's major objective is to improve the well-being of all people through support of efforts in the United States and abroad that contribute ideas, develop leaders, and encourage institutions in the transition to global interdependence.
Attention is focused on locally based problems and grantees, but in the context of global concerns.
The fund makes grants in five areas. To qualify for a grant from the RBF, a prospective grantee in the United States must be either a tax-exempt organization or an organization seeking support for a project that would qualify as educational or charitable. A prospective foreign grantee must satisfy an RBF determination that it would qualify, if incorporated in the United States, as a tax-exempt organization or that a project for which support is sought would qualify in the United States as educational or charitable. A grantee must also be engaged in work that fits generally within the Fund's guidelines. A preliminary letter of inquiry is recommended for an initial approach to the Fund.