Our
Challenges

Commitment per year

Laudes Foundation's active portfolio of grants in 2021 totalled EUR 220 million. This amount includes the EUR 70.7 million we invested in 2021, plus the active partnerships started in 2020, and the EUR 49.7 million of ongoing initiatives carried over from the now retired C&A Foundation.

See our 2021 commitment by:

Outcome

Actor

Industry

Total EUR 70.7m

*Building the field includes advocacy, strategic communications, effective philanthropy and strategy grants

Number of new partnerships

In 2021, Laudes Foundation financed 126* new partnerships globally.


*Partners that received more than EUR 50,000 in programmatic and core-support funding. 

52

Fashion

16

Built
Environment

36

Finance and
Capital Markets

21

Building
the field

Median grant size and average duration

The increase in median grant size and average grant duration since 2020, are a reflection of our commitment to building trust-based, longer-term partnerships with mission-aligned organisations, allowing them more flexibility and stability.

EUR 296K

CEP cohort benchmark**

EUR 232K

2021

EUR 200K

2020

Median grant size*

30 months

CEP cohort benchmark**

20 months

2021

18 months

2020

Average grant duration*

*Implementing and core support grants above EUR 50,000.

**Center for Effective Philanthropy custom cohort benchmark of Laudes Foundation (formerly C&A Foundation) grantee perception survey, published in 2020. 

Leverage and
co-funding

We mobilised additional funding from other donors (both private and public). In 2021, this translated into an additional EUR 48.5 million in leveraged funding, and EUR 49.6 million was secured in

co-funding.

Co-funding/Leverage

Source of funding

Geographic footprint of our active partner­ships

We fund partners working in 52 countries, yet our work often has a much broader geographic footprint. Nearly 50% of our active grants have impact beyond their home markets.


Our work in built environment and finance and capital markets focusses on countries within the European Union, European Economic Area (EEA), Switzerland and the UK, where we believe we can best leverage our networks to rally industry, investors and policymakers to enable and support new business models.


In the fashion industry, we work with global initiatives to influence brands and policymakers, while also supporting partners working in and with the apparel, textile and fibre-producing countries across South Asia, South-East Asia and Brazil, where workers and farming communities work and live.

Total in EUR

219.8m

All sectors

Built Environment

Fashion 

Finance and Capital Markets

Building the field