EY helps clients create long-term value for all stakeholders. Enabled by data and technology, our services and solutions provide trust through assurance and help clients transform, grow and operate.
At EY, our purpose is building a better working world. The insights and services we provide help to create long-term value for clients, people and society, and to build trust in the capital markets.
The EY Foundation’s mission is to support excellence in education, with a particular focus on higher education and preparation for professional service careers in business. The foundation focuses its support on quality educational institutions, encouraging leadership excellence; continuous improvement and innovation; quality; diversity; and accountability within these institutions.
The EY Foundation’s Matching Gifts for Higher Education Program matches contributions to accredited nonprofit colleges and universities made by active and retired partners, principals and employees.
$10.4m in gifts matched by the EY Foundation to US-based colleges and universities in 2024
$52m in matching gifts donated over the past five years
Since 2021, the EY Social Justice Fund has awarded grants to organizations addressing inequity, discrimination and racism. Grants aim to increase the engagement, access and influence of marginalized communities in education, technology, health care, the environment and economic empowerment.
In 2024, more than $1.4m was awarded to eight organizations.
The EY organization comes together to address disasters impacting our communitites. The EY Disaster Relief Fund was established to provide finacial assisitance to victims of disasters. The fund prioritizes EY organization employees affected by war, natural disasters or other events.
In FY24, a total of $2.6m was directed toward disaster relief efforts.
The EY Academic Resource Center (EYARC) is a state-of-the-art virtual resource center dedicated to providing university faculty the knowledge and tools they need to prepare their students for careers in professional services. To support staff from nonprofit higher education institutions, the EYARC gives them free resources and tools (including videos, lecture notes, case studies, data sets and analytics workbooks) focused on critical trends and topics impacting the business world and accounting profession. Leading accounting academics and retired EY US partners create the curriculum.
EY US launched the Career Path Accelerator in summer 2021 to address the declining pipeline of accounting professionals by helping to remove affordability and accessibility barriers that many students face in become a CPA. Through a partnership with Hult International Business School, an institution accredited by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, interns and incoming staff can take online courses to earn the necessary credits to meet each state’s business and general elective requirements at a low cost. The EY Foundation also offers scholarships for students who need additional assistance.
Since the program launched, approximately 1,000 students from various locations and service lines across the US have enrolled. The EY Foundation has also awarded more than $905,000 in scholarships to over 50% of enrolled students, with more than 75% of them coming from a variety of racial and ethnic backgrounds and 51% identifying as female.
In FY24, a total of $300K was awarded in scholarships.
