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The Geoffrey Beene Foundation was founded in 2006 by G. Thompson (“Tom”) Hutton, Esq. (under his discretionary authority as Executor of the Estate of Geoffrey Beene who died in 2004). The mission of the Foundation is to support critical philanthropic causes, the most important being the establishment in 2006 of the Geoffrey Beene Cancer Research Center at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center.
The Geoffrey Beene Foundation has also supported causes relating to educational scholarships, veterans, protection of women, children and their families, animal welfare, Alzheimer’s, heart disease, scientific awards for builders of science institutions, and initiatives relating to the fashion industry, such as the creation of the Council of Fashion Designers of America annual Geoffrey Beene Lifetime Achievement Award.