Founded in 1974, the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation, named after Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge, "supports and encourages those educational, cultural, social and environmental values that contribute to making our society more humane and our world more livable." According to the organization's website, in 2009, the foundation made $10.5 million in grants to 237 organizations related to arts, education, the environment and local Morristown initiatives.