Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts is a nonprofit institution dedicated to fostering the arts of opera, music, dance, drama, and arts education. Its objective is not only to exist as a physical place where the arts are created and performed, but also to promote and facilitate access to the arts to as wide an audience as possible.

In general, each fellowship file contains an application form (or statement of financial need in the early years), letters of recommendation, a language competency form, transcripts, an indication of choice of graduate school, and questionnaires and survey material used to track the fellow's progress through graduate school and subsequent career. Approximately 50% of the Fellows responded to the 1977 questionnaire and 11% returned a 1997 summary status card. Form letters and correspondence regarding financial matters were not included in the scanning project. The collection includes 14,260 printed photographs of individual fellows and those are housed separately and are organized alphabetically by first letter of surname. Printed annual reports for the following years are part of the collection: 1993, 1995-98.

The records of the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation span the years 1956 to 2005, with the majority of the records from the late 1970s to the late 1990s. During this time, the Winthrop Rockefeller Foundation was making grants to organizations that were based in Arkansas and only did business in Arkansas.

The records of the William T. Grant Foundation span the years 1916-1999 and are comprised primarily of the Foundation's files of grantees (the bulk dating from 1970-1985) and administrative records (including annual reports and minutes) beginning in 1930. Also included in the collection are the papers of William T. Grant (correspondence, speeches and articles dating from 1916 to 1959), founder of the William T. Grant Foundation and W.T. Grant Company.

The collection consists of personal and office correspondence, clippings, conference information and proceedings, memoranda, and reports.

The Russell Sage Foundation records consist of correspondence, office files, reports, grant proposals, publications, photographs, and some digital media materials documenting the Foundation's activities during the years 1879-2002, with the bulk of the material from 1907-2000.

The Dean Rusk Papers document the non-official professional activities of Dean Rusk (1909-1994), carried out during his tenure as president of the Rockefeller Foundation from 1952 to 1961. There are no personal papers in this small collection.

The files found in this series include correspondence by members of the Rockefeller family and their representatives and the officials of various institutions. Most of the material is unsolicited requests for aid. The material on institutions in which the family took an active interest, such as the International Houses, includes analysis, reports, general correspondence, contributions, and administration.

The Rockefeller Sanitary Commission records date from 1909 to 1915. The subjects documented in these records include: dispensaries, health education, health inspection, health law and legislation, hookworm disease and treatment, philanthropy, public health planning, sanitary engineering, and state health systems.

This series contains a portion of Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller's political correspondence on state and national issues. The correspondence reflects his role as a national political figure and was filed separately from correspondence generated while serving as Governor of New York.