The Melaleuca Foundation is the charitable arm of Melaleuca, Inc. The foundation helps Melaleuca fulfill its mission of enhancing lives beyond the company’s superior health and wellness products.
The foundation was founded in 2001 to help the forgotten families of 9/11. Since then, the foundation has continued to support worthy causes, such as supplying victims of natural disasters with food, supplies, and resources and donating to food banks and other nonprofits to feed hungry families.
The reach of the Melaleuca Foundation is global. From the United States to Australia, from South American to Europe—the foundation has worked with hundreds of nonprofits and donated millions of dollars to worthy causes to help those who cannot help themselves.
When wildfires devastated western Maui in 2023, Melaleuca was on the scene with thousands of pounds of beef and emergency supplies. The beef helped feed wildfires victims for months, and Melaleuca also donated generators to the American Red Cross to help the nonprofit update their emergency kits throughout the Hawaiian Islands.
Hurricane Helene devastated the southeast United States in 2024, and Melaleuca immediately put together a plan to get food and supplies delivered to the victims. A semi-truck full of beef, other food products, and nonfood products was sent to the hardest-hit locations throughout the region. The Melaleuca Foundation has run to the rescue after many other natural disasters, including the Australian bushfires, typhoons in the Philippines, and Hurricanes Milton, Otis, Ian, Michael, and Katrina.
The foundation has also supported law enforcement through donations of protective vests and other equipment. And during the California wildfires in January 2025, the foundation sent Melaleuca products to firefighters battling the blazes, as well as cash to customers who had lost homes.
Throughout the years, Melaleuca and the Melaleuca Foundation have worked with nonprofits like the Salvation Army, the American Red Cross, and various food banks and have donated millions of dollars and millions of pounds of food to help those in need and improve well-being in communities both local and across the country.
In recognition of both Melaleuca’s and the foundation’s efforts, the American Red Cross gave Melaleuca distinction as Corporate Partner of the Year. Melaleuca is also the recipient of the Salvation Arm’s highest recognition, the Others Award.
The Melaleuca Foundation is also the sole financial supporter of Santa Lucia Children’s Home, an orphanage in Quito, Ecuador, a unique orphanage in which children are placed in “homes” and cared for by a loving group of nuns who run it. The children often enter the orphanage scared, hungry, and emotionally broken, but they leave as happy children in good health.