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The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation
Its FY2025 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant clustered by its grantee’s IRS cause code (NTEE), by year — across FY2017–2025.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k4 grants · $10k
- $10k–50k17 grants · $268k
- $50k–250k34 grants · $4.2M
- $250k+15 grants · $12M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC | $3,500,000 |
| CO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC | $3,000,000 |
| STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK | $1,000,000 |
| VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP | $800,000 |
| MYRIAD USA | $675,000 |
| CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION | $500,000 |
| GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER | $450,000 |
| PRATHAM USA | $415,000 |
| BUSINESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY | $276,400 |
| THE TREVOR PROJECT INC | $250,000 |
| UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC | $250,000 |
| TERREFORM ONE CORP | $250,000 |
| THE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL | $250,000 |
| EARTH ECHO INTERNATIONAL INC | $250,000 |
| GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP | $250,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your human-services grants (FY17–25, $3.7M) land where the poverty rate runs at 17%, against an area that typically sits at 10%. 96% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 7% of The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 49% of the giving stays in NY; read by stated purpose it is 45% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.
216 repeat relationships — 56 still active in FY2025, 160 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC5× · 2021–2025 · $13M · revenue +59%- SLSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC7× · 2019–2025 · $5.5M · revenue +34%
- PUPRATHAM USA9× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +20%
Funded once
- NYNew York Community Trust akaone grant, 2020 · $1.0M
- UFUN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · $250k
- JSJoan & Sandy Weill Medical College of Cornell Univone grant, 2020 · $250k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
The mission of the alliance for positive health is to reduce the impact and incidence of hiv/aids and other serious medical and social conditions in northeastern ny.
Vision: vivent health envisions an end to the hiv/aids epidemic.mission: to end hiv/aids by providing integratred, personalzied, judgment-free healthcare, social services, and effective prevention strategies.
The mission of aid atlanta is to reduce hiv infections and improve the quality of life of its members and the community by breaking barriers and building community. we fulfill that mission by providing an array of comprehensive services…
Hiv/aids counseling/assistance
The elizabeth glaser pediatric aids foundation (egpaf) is a proven leader in the fight against pediatric hiv/aids and has reached over 33 million pregnant women with services to prevent transmission of hiv to their babies. to date, egpaf…
Aids community resources, inc. d/b/a acr health, is a community-based organization providing prevention, education, and support services to people with chronic illnesses, including hiv/aids, and those at risk for contracting hiv, stds, and…
To strengthen the resilience and hope of our diverse community members by improving their health and well-being.
EMPOWERING LGBT PEOPLE, BUILDING STRONG COMMUNITY. NEW YORK CITY'S LESBIAN, GAY, BISEXUAL, & TRANSGENDER COMMUNITY CENTER EMPOWERS PEOPLE TO LEAD HEALTHY, SUCCESSFUL LIVES. The Center celebrates our community and advocates for justice and…
Services for aids patients
Alianza's mission is to empower hard-to-reach, vulnerable, and underserved populations through education and supportive services aimed at working with everyone we serve to achieve better outcomes and higher quality of life.
Our mission is to be the gateway to good health for those at risk of or affected by hiv/aids, for the lgbtq community, and for those seeking a welcoming healthcare home.
The center for comprehensive health practice, inc. provides accessible, community-based treatment that integrates primary healthcare with substance use and behavioral health services for all children, adolescents, adults, and families…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc and the most unlike its peers is The Health Foundation of Greater Indianapolis Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 35 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 1% of your grantees by number, and just 7% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
311 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 311 of the 389 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
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The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: The Mac AIDS Fund · Broadway Caresequity Fights AIDS Inc · AIDS United · The Elizabeth Taylor AIDS Foundation · Elton John AIDS Foundation Inc · Kent Richard Hofmann Foundation In · AIDS Healthcare Foundation · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Robin Hood Foundation · Direct Relief · The Keith Haring Foundation Inc · Drug Policy Alliance
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- The Center in Asbury Park Inc — 100% of income from government
- Inspirica Inc — 30% of income from government
- Save the Children Federation Inc — 30% of income from government
- Apnha Place to Nourish Your Health — 24% of income from government
- Hands On Hartford Inc — 20% of income from government
- Moveable Feast Inc — 18% of income from government
- International Youth Foundation — 17% of income from government
- Jacksonville Area Sexual Minority Youth Network Inc — 16% of income from government
- Cascade Aids Project — 13% of income from government
- Community Servings Inc — 12% of income from government
- Hyacinth Aids Foundation Inc — 9% of income from government
- President and Fellows of Harvard College — 7% of income from government
- University of Miami — 5% of income from government
- Legal Aid Service of Broward County Inc — 1% of income from government
- Partners in Health a Nonprofit Corporation — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.
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