Robin Hood Foundation’s Big Benefit is always an incredible feat of creativity and technicality coming together. The Lumineers, Pink, and Pete Davidson brought heart, joy, and laughter to a night that hosted over 4,000 donors and raised over $73 million for NYC’s neediest families, alongside a newly announced $1 billion endowment to secure the foundation’s poverty-fighting mission permanently.

It was also our most sustainable Big Benefit yet: David Stark’s design incorporated over 60,000 donated household items, single-use plastics were replaced with 5,000 reusable plates and utensils and recyclable water cans, and beef was cut from all guest and crew meals — cutting catering emissions 60% year-over-year and 86% versus our 2024 baseline.

We donated 650 lbs. of food (542 meals, 687 kg CO2e avoided), composted all catering waste at a facility powering 5,000 homes and businesses, and shredded 118,000 sq. ft. of carpet onsite for recycling — cutting transport trucking