Cultivating and developing knowledge, ethics and sustainability.

The Fondazione Ernesto Illy is a corporate foundation, an expression of the entrepreneurial family, which carries out philanthropic activities in addition to the sustainable business model of the founding company, according to the principles of the stakeholder company and the benefit company.

Ethics is its founding value, respecting Humans and the Environment, with a sense of responsibility towards future generations.

“The only thing that matters is ethics.”
Ernesto Illy, January 28, 2008