· Private foundation
The Ralph Lauren Corporate 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 it funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2017 to 2025.
Where the money goes
Grants by size, and the largest recipients.
By grant size · FY2025
- Under $10k2 grants · $13k
- $10k–50k26 grants · $530k
- $50k–250k8 grants · $497k
- $250k+3 grants · $2.8M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER | $1,500,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA | $1,000,000 |
| THE GEORGETOWN LOMBARDI COMPREHENSIVE CANCER CENTER | $263,741 |
| DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT | $100,000 |
| HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE | $75,000 |
| YOURCAUSE | $63,012 |
| SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE | $59,325 |
| LOS ANGELES REGIONAL FOOD PANTRY | $50,000 |
| MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| AVERA MCKENNAN HOSPITAL | $50,000 |
| AMERICAN RED CROSS | $50,000 |
| UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND - UNCF | $48,800 |
| NETWORK FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP | $44,000 |
| BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATAION | $35,000 |
| FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH | $25,000 |
Does the money reach high-need areas?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.
Its human-services grants (FY17–25, $1.1M) land where the poverty rate runs at 15%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 70% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
How this is measured
Which US states its grants reach
How this is measured
Who it funds again
Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.
Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +19% since the first grant, against +14% for those funded once.
70 repeat relationships: 36 still active in FY2025, 34 since wound down; 2 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, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $94k went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
How this is measured
Backed again, and grew
GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY4× · 2021–2025 · $5.6M · revenue +34%- SHSOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE2× · 2022–2025 · $4.7M · revenue +1% · 80% of their budget
- THTHE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC8× · 2017–2025 · $640k · revenue +18%
Funded once
- EAEMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION (COVID-19)one grant, 2021 · $6.8M
- UWUNITED WAY WORLDWIDEone grant, 2021 · $1.1M
- TNThe New Schoolgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $1.0M · revenue +35%
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.
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.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Provide clinical instruction to and supervision of medical school students, interns and residents and, incident thereto, rendering professional services.
Nyu is a private university with approximately 60,000 matriculating students in 20 schools and institutes. nyu's primary missions are education, research and scholarship, and patient care.
To educate students to be ethical and socially responsible leaders in a global community.
The University of New Haven is a student-centered comprehensive university with an emphasis on excellence in liberal arts and professional education. Our mission is to prepare our students to lead purposeful and fulfilling lives in a…
Operate a state-of-the-art, world-class genomic research center that creates and uses advanced genomics to understand the genetic basis of disease. for more information, see schedule o.
How this is measured
87 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. 87 of the 133 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.
Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee
Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing
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 GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds SOIL HEALTH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA ↗
- Who funds UNITED NATIONS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds UNITED NEGRO COLLEGE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds The New School ↗
- Who funds THE HETRICK-MARTIN INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds Spelman College ↗
- Who funds MOREHOUSE COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds THE MOSES H CONE MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds THE BREAST CANCER RESEARCH FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds WATERAID AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds THE DIGDEEP RIGHT TO WATER PROJECT ↗
- Who funds University of Chicago Cancer Research Foundation ↗
- Who funds EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds EXODUS SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds THE HAROLD P FREEMAN PATIENT NAVIGATION INSTITUTE INC ↗
- Who funds MOVEMBER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MLK HEALTH AND WELLNESS COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT CORPORATION ↗
- Who funds THE FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds THE MICHAEL J FOX FOUNDATION FOR PARKINSON'S RESEARCH ↗
- Who funds ELTON JOHN AIDS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds CITY PARKS FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds GOD'S LOVE WE DELIVER INC ↗
- Who funds PROJECT SUNSHINE 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.
Open a dossier: Jewish Communal Fund · The Goldman Sachs Charitable Gift Fund · The New York Community Trust · The Hyde and Watson Foundation · Altman Foundation · California Community Foundation · Morgan Stanley Global Impact Funding Trust Inc · American Express Foundation · Gs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund for Wealth Management Inc · Aetna Foundation Inc · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · The Ayco Charitable Foundation
How this is measured
How much its grantees rely on government
Each dot is one organization The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from The Ralph Lauren Corporate Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.
- Save the Children Federation Inc: 30% of income from government
- Boston Medical Center Corporation: 23% of income from government
- Hackensack Riverkeeper Inc: 0% of income from government
- Hands in for Youth Inc: 0% of income from government
How this is measured
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