The Rockford & Ellington Foundation · Since 2006
A bull's strength, turned toward the smallest hands.
One percent of everything we earn, before we pay ourselves.
In 2006, eight years after founding the firm, Edward Rockford and Charles Ellington made a commitment they wrote into the partnership deed itself: that one percent of Rockford & Ellington's revenue would be directed, every single year, to the education and health of children who would otherwise go without.
Not one percent of profit, which can be engineered to vanish. One percent of revenue, off the top, in good years and lean ones alike. It is the first cheque the firm writes each year, and the one the partners are proudest of.
- 1%
- of firm revenue pledged, every year
- $24.6M
- committed since 2006
- 180,000+
- children reached
- 14
- countries, on four continents
Where it goes
Three programmes, measured by outcomes, not intentions.
Classrooms, not promises
We fund schools, teachers and learning materials in under-served communities, then stay long enough to measure whether children actually finish.
Health that lets them learn
Clean water, nutrition and primary care, because a child cannot learn while hungry or unwell. Delivered with partners we audit ourselves.
A path beyond the gate
Scholarships and mentoring that carry promising students from primary school through to a profession, and often back to their own communities.
Accountability
We audit the giving as hard as we audit the book.
- Every grant tied to a measurable outcome: enrolment, completion, health.
- Independent annual audit, published in full to clients.
- Operating costs capped, so the overwhelming majority reaches the field.
- Partners visit programmes in person, not by report alone.