Aerin Lauder
Profile Summary
Aerin Lauder is a U.S. retail billionaire with an estimated net worth of ~$1.6B. SEC records link her to The Estée Lauder Companies and related Lauder-Zinterhofer trusts. RTB SEC EDGAR
Business & SEC Activity
SEC EDGAR lists 39 filings associated with Aerin Lauder, including 37 insider filings connected to The Estée Lauder Companies. A Form 4 reports changes in an insider's ownership of company securities; the listed filings include a Form 4 dated April 10, 2026. The record also includes Schedule 13D/A filings, which amend disclosures about substantial ownership stakes. SEC EDGAR
Philanthropy
Lauder Foundation Inc., based in New York, reported $1,644,333 in total assets and $1,525,028 in grants paid for tax year 2023. It reported $105,185 in revenue and $1,537,673 in expenses that year. ProPublica 990
Political Activity
Federal contribution records show 10 contributions totaling $50,200 from December 12, 1995, through September 2, 2019. The party breakdown was $42,700 to Democratic recipients, $5,000 to Republican recipients, and $2,500 to recipients with an unknown party designation; the largest listed recipient was the Democratic National Committee, at $35,400. FEC
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In the News
On July 24, 2026, Elle and Vogue published coverage of an East Hampton dinner hosted by Aerin Lauder celebrating Carolyn Murphy's 25 years with Estée Lauder. NewsAPI
U.S. Presence
Philanthropy
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Political Contributions
By Party
Every party on file is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $50,200.
Top Recipients
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SEC Filings
Associated Companies
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Recent Insider Filings
Score Breakdown
The giving score is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
How much sourced public record we hold about this person — net worth, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, Wikidata. It measures our coverage, not how open the person is. Each further kind of record scores higher, up to eight. Political donation records matched to a person by name alone are not counted: they may belong to someone else with the same name. From October 7, 2026, our own AI-written summary and the profile photo are not counted either — neither is a public record — so grades that leaned on them moved down that day.
Data: SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): Giving score = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Data coverage
Scored on 10/16/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
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