Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation

About Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation

The Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation’s largest recent grants cluster around two linked priorities: gender justice and breast cancer disparities. In 2024 and 2025, it gave $3,000,000 to Co-impact Philanthropic Funds Inc for The Gender Fund, and it also committed $3,000,000 in both 2024 and 2025 to Breast Cancer Research Foundation Inc for the BCRF Disparities Initiative, including a year-two payment in a five-year program. That combination points to a funder that uses large, repeated awards to back both systemic equity work and medical research over time. The foundation also supports school-based leadership for young women at scale. Student Leadership Network received $1,000,000 grants in 2023, 2024, and 2025 for the Young Women’s Leadership Schools and affiliated programs. In a different but related lane, the foundation has funded Vital Voices Global Partnership, Conservation International Foundation, and Solutions Project Inc, showing interest in women’s leadership, climate justice, and intermediary-led grantmaking vehicles that can move money across multiple communities and issue areas. Its grantmaking suggests a preference for multi-year support, collaborative funds, and organizations that can carry programs beyond a single site or short-term initiative.

What Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation Funds

Women’s leadership is a recurring theme. The foundation gave $681,500 to Vital Voices Global Partnership in 2025 for the Vital Voices Visionaries Program, and it previously supported the organization with $400,000 in 2024 for VV Visionaries and $400,000 in 2023 for The Vital Voices Leadership Journey. In girls’ education, it backed Student Leadership Network with $1,000,000 in 2025 for The Young Women’s Leadership Schools and The Young Women’s Leadership Network affiliate schools. The same organization also received $1,000,000 in 2024 for the Young Women’s Leadership Schools (TYWLS) and the Young Women’s Leadership Network (YWLN) affiliate schools. The foundation also funds climate and livelihood work. It gave $787,372 to Tides Foundation in 2024 for Promoting Resilient Livelihoods for Smallholder Coconut Farmers in Mindanao, and $575,000 to Conservation International Foundation in 2023 for Facing the Climate Emergency with Women and Indigenous Peoples, Amazon Women’s Indigenous Fellows.

How Estee Lauder Companies Charitable Foundation Gives