{"gt_parse": {"text_sequence": "'s funding of the education of black wome n at Spelman College in Atlanta.He was on his fathers renowned Rockefeller Foundation elected to the board in 1931 he subsequently became chairman of t his major philanthropic orga nization for twenty years and was responsible for changing the focus of the institution.The principal p hilanthropic institution he created w as the JDR III Fund in 1963 its majo r program being the Asian Cultural Program created in 1967 to encoura ge East-West cultu ral exchange. The Fund wa s wound-up upo n his death in 1 979 but the Cultural Pr ogram continued as the Asian Cultural Council whic h has provided grant assistance to more than 4000 Asian s and Americans in the area of the ar ts. Funding for its programs is derived from a combinati on of endowment income and contributions from individuals foundations and corporations in th e United States and Asia.In the mid-1950s J ohn III assumed the leadership of the Ex ploratory Committee for a Musical Arts Center a committee of civic"}}