From 1897
Rockefeller had turned his interests toward philanthropy. He
endowed the University of Chicago and ultimately gave the school
more than 80 million dollars. He endowed major philanthropic
institutions, including the Rockefeller Institute for Medical
Research (later Rockefeller University) in New York City (1901),
the General Education Board (1902), the Rockefeller Foundation
(1913), and the Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial Foundation
(1918), named for his late wife. Rockefeller died on May 23,
1937, in Ormond Beach, Fla.