Hilton Foundation

• Most of this foundation's grant dollars go to organisations it already funds: the filing shows 82% of grant dollars to organisations went to groups it had also funded in its earlier filings, which is a share of dollars rather than of grants.
• Its seven core programme areas are reached through its own proactive search rather than unsolicited proposals, so a cold approach to those areas is unlikely to get far, and the open route is the Good Neighbor Program, which takes online applications from eligible local non-profit organisations and Title 1 schools providing direct services in the Conejo Valley: Agoura Hills, Newbury Park, Oak Park and 5 more cities in California.
• Keep requests modest, since about 8 in 10 grants fall between $1,000 and $685,000, half of grants are $50,000 or less, and the Good Neighbor Program has a stated amount of $10,000.
• Individuals, organisations that discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national origin, gender, age, sexual orientation or disability, and requests for legislation or elections, for social or political issues outside the United States, for temporary exhibits, travel, surveys, films or publishing, for endowment funds, or for fundraising dinners, sponsorships or events should not apply to the Good Neighbor Program, and projects outside its geographic focus area are excluded from it too.

The largest grants to organisations in the foundation’s latest filing:

• Marywood University · To implement phase iv of the higher education for sisters in africa program for sisters in multiple countries in africa
  $3,500,0002024 tax year
• Marywood University · To implement phase vi of the sisters leadership development initiative in ten countries in africa and establish an investment fund for sisters education
  $2,860,4622024 tax year
• Norwegian Refugee Council USA · To support two-generation youth livelihoods and early childhood development programming in colombia, ecuador, and uganda
  $2,600,0002024 tax year
• Amazon Frontlines · For general operating support
  $2,500,0002024 tax year
• Lunione Internazionale Delle Superiore Generali · To support the education and training of sisters in interculturality, canon law, formation for synodality, advocacy communication, and formation for practical action on anti-trafficking, integral ecology, migration, and theology
  $2,325,0002024 tax year
• Universidad de los Andes · To scale-up a community-based psychosocial model promoting maternal mental health and early childhood development among refugees and forcibly displaced persons in colombia
  $2,300,0002024 tax year
• Uptime Catalyst Facility · To scale-up performance-based contracting for safe water service delivery and influence regional and global financing of rural water services
  $2,300,0002024 tax year
• Brilliant Corners · To expand its operating capacity to serve as a larger fiscal intermediary in the homelessness sector in los angeles county
  $2,255,0002024 tax year

Grants to organisations listed in the foundation’s Form 990-PF filings. Grants to individuals are not shown.

Figures from the foundation’s IRS Form 990-PF filings. Assets are at fair market value at year end. The document icon links to each year’s filing on ProPublica Nonprofit Explorer.