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The Rockefeller Foundation released its 2025 impact report, Big Bets, Real Results, detailing a year of strategic investments aimed at lifting up some of the world’s most vulnerable people and solving humanity’s most persistent problems.
The report details the Foundation’s 2025 work, including big bets on Universal Energy Abundance (India, Zambia, Haiti):
With Foundation support, the Global Energy Alliance is helping scale India’s first standalone utility-scale battery energy storage system in New Delhi, India, which has helped 100,000+ people access reliable electricity.
In Zambia families now are able to operate their oil extractors using clean, affordable solar power — producing and selling cooking oils to their community, at a fraction of the cost. As result of investing modular, solar-powered mesh grids in northwest Haiti, 21,000 people were connected to reliable electricity.
Together, these innovations are providing the reliable power necessary to stabilize grids and support livelihoods.
Globally, the expected lifetime impact for all deployed and deployment-ready Alliance projects includes 91 million people reached with new or improved energy access, jobs and livelihoods improved for 3.1 million people, and approximately 296 million tonnes of carbon emissions prevented.
Regenerative School Meals (Global): In Makueni County, Kenya, the introduction of omena fish into school menus through Lattice Aquaculture is helping small-scale producers stabilize food supply chains and improve student nutrition.
The Foundation’s partnership with the World Food Programme is helping improve how children are fed in Benin, Burundi, Ghana, Honduras, India, and Rwanda, ensuring every plate of food creates positive ripple effects, and the results show up where they matter most: in classrooms and communities.
Climate-Smart Tech (Brazil, India, Kenya, United States): AI-powered app, FarmerChat, created by Digital Green, provides real-time, multilingual guidance, tailored to a farmer’s specific location and weather conditions. Last year, 83% of women users reported being much more confident investing in their farms because of FarmerChat, which had more than 1.6 million downloads and handled more than 10 million queries across six countries, including Brazil, India, and Kenya.
Across the United States, the Foundation supported Invest in Our Future to advance clean energy projects across 45 states, reaching more than 770 counties and 400 cities and towns
“As The Rockefeller Foundation marks 60 years of its Africa Regional Office, it reflects a broader shift in the future of development.
Amid aid cuts, geopolitical tensions and conflict, climate impacts, and political change, progress is becoming harder to sustain.
Against this backdrop, the focus is increasingly on strengthening African capacity across health, education, and energy, and on African-led solutions and leadership, alongside the role of philanthropic capital.
The Foundation’s latest Impact Report highlights how we are reimagining progress through mission-driven action and partnerships.”― William Asiko, Senior Vice President and head of The Rockefeller Foundation’s Africa Regional Office
AI for Civic Good (South Africa): The Foundation is investing in digital tools to increase civic participation.
In Cape Town, South Africa, through Turn.io, it’s collaborating with the city’s data analytics hub to build the country’s first AI-powered platform for residents to participate in local government—in their own language and on their own terms—reaching approximately 100,000 people.
