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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.

$17M
Granted FY2025still arriving
70
Grants FY2025still arriving
13
States reached
$3.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
05Through PlinthRead
01What it funds
01100% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.

Health$21MPhilanthropy$20MInternational$19MYouth Development$9.7MEducation$7.9MEnvironment$7.4MFood & Nutrition$2.9MPublic Safety & Disaster$1.9MOther$0
02FY2025 · 70 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2025

  • Under $10k4 grants · $10k
  • $10k–50k17 grants · $268k
  • $50k–250k34 grants · $4.2M
  • $250k+15 grants · $12M
$125,000
Median grant
13
States reached
$30M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
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
UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC$250,000
EARTH ECHO INTERNATIONAL INC$250,000
THE TREVOR PROJECT INC$250,000
TERREFORM ONE CORP$250,000
THE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL$250,000
GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP$250,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 10%Open Arms of Minnesota: $25k → 11%NEW MEXICO AIDS SERVICES INC: $11k → 14%Hands On Hartford: $15k → 11%NE Indiana Positive Resource Connection Inc: $10k → 12%The Center in Asbury Park: $24k → 6%St Boniface Haiti Foundation (Health Equity Intl): $50k → 8%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $20k → 11%Albany Damien Center: $10k → 14%SHE'S THE FIRST: $650k → 20%NEW MEXICO AIDS SERVICES INC: $10k → 14%THE CENTER IN ASBURY PARK: $10k → 6%HEALTH EQUITY INTERNATIONAL: $35k → 8%OPEN ARMS OF MINNESOTA: $16k → 11%The Damien Center: $15k → 16%HAWAII ISLAND HIVAIDS FOUNDATION: $13k → 15%Community Servings Inc: $25k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $16k → 16%COMMUNITY SERVINGS INC: $15k → 16%Clare Housing: $35k → 11%CLARE HOUSING: $25k → 11%Heartland Human Care Services: $15k → 14%Larkin Street Youth Services: $35k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $26k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $25k → 10%LARKIN STREET YOUTH SERVICES: $15k → 10%HIPS: $25k → 14%A CHANCE IN LIFE INC: $100k → 17%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $100k → 17%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $100k → 17%HIPS: $15k → 14%JOHN JAY COLLEGE FOUNDATION INC: $100k → 17%A CHANCE IN LIFE: $50k → 17%SHE'S THE FIRST: $350k → 17%SHE'S THE FIRST: $200k → 17%SHE'S THE FIRST: $200k → 17%SHE'S THE FIRST: $200k → 17%She's The First: $125k → 17%She's The First: $125k → 17%She's The First: $125k → 17%She's The First: $100k → 17%She's The First: $25k → 17%Safe Horizon Inc: $25k → 17%SAFE HORIZON INC: $15k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $160k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $100k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $70k → 17%Hetrick-Martin Institute Inc: $50k → 17%HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $35k → 17%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
NH
WA
MN
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
OR
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IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
RI
CA
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CO
MO
KY
WV
VA
MD
AZ
NM
KS
AR
TN
NC
SC
DC
HI
OK
LA
MS
AL
GA
TX
FL
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving.
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Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 7% of The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 49% of the giving stays in NY; by stated purpose, 45%.

The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 14% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$72M · 217 repeat orgs$7.9M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +30% since the first grant, against +13% for those funded once.

217 repeat relationships: 56 still active in FY2025, 161 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2025 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

217
150

Total granted

$72M
$5.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+13%

Still filing today

94%
55%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2025, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $2.1M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24’25
HealthHuman ServicesInternationalEducationArts & CulturePhilanthropyOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    5× · 2021–2025 · $13M · revenue +59%
  • SL
    STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC
    7× · 2019–2025 · $5.5M · revenue +34%
  • PU
    PRATHAM USA
    9× · 2017–2025 · $3.1M · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • NY
    New York Community Trust aka
    one grant, 2020 · $1.0M
  • JS
    Joan & Sandy Weill Medical College of Cornell Univ
    one grant, 2020 · $250k
  • UF
    UN FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · $250k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

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Aids Council of Northeastern New York

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.

Health
2
Tpa Network Incorporated

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.

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3
Aid Atlanta Inc

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…

Health
4
The Philadelphia Center

Hiv/aids counseling/assistance

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5
Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric Aids Foundation

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…

Health
6
Aids Community Resources Inc D/B/a Acr Health

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…

Education
7
The Asian Americans for Community Involvement of Santa Clara County Inc

To strengthen the resilience and hope of our diverse community members by improving their health and well-being.

Health
8
Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center Inc

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…

Human Services
9
Calcutta House

Services for aids patients

Human Services
10
Alianza of New Mexico

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.

Human Services
11
Equitas Health Inc

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.

Health
12
Center for Comprehensive Health Practice Inc

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…

Health
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Voices of Community Activists & Leaders (Vocal-Ny) Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

311 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2025, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 311 of the 388 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
40
Early backer (in before they grew)
305/311
Grantees still filing
225/311
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

TIDES FOUNDATION: $7,110,502 · PhilanthropyTIDES FOUNDATIONCO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC: $6,000,000 · PhilanthropyCO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUND…STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC: $5,450,000 · PhilanthropySTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK I…PRATHAM USA: $3,140,000 · PhilanthropyPRATHAM USAONE TREE PLANTED INC: $1,125,000 · PhilanthropyROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,125,000 · Philanthropy+4 more: $495,000 · PhilanthropyTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $12,500,000 · Public Safety & DisasterTHE BREAST CAN…+1 more: $50,000 · Public Safety & DisasterMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,100,000 · InternationalMEDECINS SANS …CAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $1,625,000 · InternationalCAMFED USA FOU…VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,531,500 · InternationalVITAL VOICES G…International Rescue Committee INC: $1,205,000 · InternationalInternational …UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 · InternationalUNITED NATIONS…THE ASIA FOUNDATION: $850,000 · InternationalTHE ASIA FOUND…MYRIAD USA INC: $775,000 · InternationalMYRIAD USA INCTHE KAILASH SATYARTHI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $750,000 · InternationalTHE KAILASH SA…GIVE2ASIA: $623,550 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $555,000 · International+8 more: $1,400,000 · International+8 moreTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC: $2,180,000 · OtherTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INCBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $1,300,000 · OtherTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,050,000 · OtherNew York Community Trust aka: $1,000,000 · OtherELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $1,033,273 · OtherSHE'S THE FIRST INC: $2,100,000 · OtherSHE'S THE FIRST INCGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $1,588,000 · OtherGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC+135 more: $16,698,046 · Other+135 moreNEW VENTURE FUND: $6,000,000 · EnvironmentNEW VENTUR…CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,075,000 · EnvironmentCONSERVATI…Solutions Project Inc: $1,050,000 · EnvironmentSolutions …BUSINESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $1,239,217 · EducationGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $1,210,000 · EducationROOM TO READ: $1,150,000 · EducationECHOING GREEN INC: $900,000 · EducationSpelman College: $310,000 · EducationTERREFORM ONE CORPORATION: $250,000 · Education+9 more: $1,071,000 · EducationGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $2,285,000 · Arts & CultureEARTHECHO INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,560,000 · Arts & CultureJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $375,000 · Arts & CultureTHE GHETTO FILM SCHOOL INC: $250,000 · Arts & Culture+6 more: $450,000 · Arts & Culture
Philanthropy$24,445,502Public Safety & Disaster$12,550,000International$12,415,050Other$26,949,319Environment$9,125,000Education$6,130,217Arts & Culture$4,920,000

Showing the 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetTHE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC: $12,500,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetTIDES FOUNDATION: $7,110,502 over 9y, 0.3% of budgetNEW VENTURE FUND: $6,000,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC: $6,000,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetSTUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC: $5,450,000 over 7y, 8.2% of budgetPRATHAM USA: $3,140,000 over 9y, 1.8% of budgetGLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN: $2,285,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetTHE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC: $2,180,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetMEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC: $2,100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSHE'S THE FIRST INC: $2,100,000 over 9y, 35% of budgetCONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION: $2,075,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCAMFED USA FOUNDATION: $1,625,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetGOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC: $1,588,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetEARTHECHO INTERNATIONAL INC: $1,560,000 over 6y, 25% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $1,531,500 over 3y, 2.9% of budgetBROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC: $1,300,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetBUSINESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY: $1,239,217 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetGREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP: $1,210,000 over 5y, 5.8% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $1,205,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetROOM TO READ: $1,150,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $1,125,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC: $1,125,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSolutions Project Inc: $1,050,000 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY: $1,050,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC: $1,033,273 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetUNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC: $1,000,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetECHOING GREEN INC: $900,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetTHE ASIA FOUNDATION: $850,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetGirls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership: $800,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetMYRIAD USA INC: $775,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH AIR FUND: $750,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetTHE KAILASH SATYARTHI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA: $750,000 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $623,550 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetGRASSROOT SOCCER INC: $600,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $555,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetTREVOR PROJECT INC: $500,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetLOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER: $450,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC: $415,000 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH A NONPROFIT CORPORATION: $410,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEQUAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE: $375,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJOHN F KENNEDY CENTER FOR THE PERFORMING ARTS: $375,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetA CHANCE IN LIFEINC: $350,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetApla Health & Wellness: $331,239 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetEMPOWER-THE EMERGING MARKETS FOUNDATION: $320,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetSpelman College: $310,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNAACP EMPOWERMENT PROGRAMS INC: $300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED CEREBRAL PALSY ASSOCIATION OF NIAGARA COUNTY INC: $300,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetNAACP LEGAL DEFENSE & EDUC FUND INC: $250,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

  • Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds TIDES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds NEW VENTURE FUND ↗
  • Who funds CO-IMPACT PHILANTHROPIC FUNDS INC ↗
  • Who funds STUDENT LEADERSHIP NETWORK INC ↗
  • Who funds PRATHAM USA ↗
  • Who funds GLOBAL FUND FOR CHILDREN ↗
  • Who funds THE RESOURCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds MEDECINS SANS FRONTIERES USA INC ↗
  • Who funds SHE'S THE FIRST INC ↗
  • Who funds CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CAMFED USA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
  • Who funds EARTHECHO INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
  • Who funds VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds BROADWAY CARESEQUITY FIGHTS AIDS INC ↗
  • Who funds BUSINESS FOR SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY ↗
  • Who funds GREENWAVE ORGANIZATION CORP ↗
  • Who funds International Rescue Committee INC ↗
  • Who funds ROOM TO READ ↗
  • Who funds ONE TREE PLANTED INC ↗
  • Who funds ROCKEFELLER PHILANTHROPY ADVISORS INC ↗
  • Who funds Solutions Project Inc ↗
  • Who funds THE NATURE CONSERVANCY ↗
  • Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds ECHOING GREEN INC ↗
  • Who funds THE ASIA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Girls Leadership Institute Inc dba Girls Leadership ↗
  • Who funds MYRIAD USA INC ↗
  • Who funds FRESH AIR FUND ↗
  • Who funds THE KAILASH SATYARTHI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF AMERICA ↗
  • Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
  • Who funds GRASSROOT SOCCER INC ↗
  • Who funds INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TREVOR PROJECT INC ↗
  • Who funds LOS ANGELES LGBT CENTER ↗
  • Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

The Mac AIDS FundBroadway Caresequity …AIDS UnitedThe Elizabeth Taylor …Elton John AIDS Found…Kent Richard Hofmann …AIDS Healthcare Found…The Hyde and Watson F…Robin Hood FoundationDirect ReliefThe Keith Haring Foun…Drug Policy Alliance
The Mac AIDS FundNY249.4× affinity125 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

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no gov · 40%6%23%51%90%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 16%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
4get no government money at all
63report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.
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How do I get to The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation?

Find your warmest path to The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation through trustees and officers whose names appear on both boards. Search for your organization and Plinth traces the shortest route it can evidence.

Each link is a name appearing on two organizations’ public IRS 990 filings, matched on that name and, where the filings support it, on location. A same-state match has geographic support, which is a second matching feature rather than confirmation that the two are one person; a cross-state one is the likeliest to be two people who share a name. Every hop shows its tier, low-confidence and distant paths are held back rather than guessed, and it is worth confirming the person before you use the introduction.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 388 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2025, released 2025. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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