Funding search · EIN 943100217 · Westlake Village, CA

Conrad N Hilton Foundation

A private foundation (files IRS Form 990-PF). Most private foundations do not take unsolicited applications; the route in is usually a program officer.

3,937
grants reported
$978.1M
total given
2022–2024
filing years
$50,000
median grant

Based on grants this organization reported to the IRS for tax years 20222024. This is what they filed, not a complete record of their giving, and recent years may be incomplete because filings lag.

What they fund

youthdevelopmentangelessistersthroughserviceshomelessnesscapacity

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Funding pattern

What this funder pays for, at what size, and how to position adjacent work. Read from their filings, with every number checked against the record.

Where the money goes

  • Homelessness and supportive housing systems in Los Angeles County
  • Early childhood development in Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique
  • Education and leadership formation for Catholic sisters
  • Safe rural water service delivery in Ghana and Uganda
  • Foster youth transition, opportunity youth employment, refugee two-generation programs

Typical grant

Median grant is $50,000 and the middle half runs $4,050 to $300,000, but that low end reflects a large tail of small and matching gifts. The strategic program grants that carry the money sit at $750,000 to $3.5 million, usually multi-year and tied to a named phase or scale-up. Repeat funding is the norm: Marywood University, Catholic Relief Services, United Way of Greater Los Angeles, Brilliant Corners, Strathmore, Mercy Corps and Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors all appear more than once, often with several concurrent grants.

Their words

Phrases from their own grant descriptions, worth speaking back to them.

  • early childhood development
  • scale-up
  • safely managed water
  • Catholic sisters
  • two-generation
  • systems

Positioning adjacent work

  • Anchor to one named geography they already fund: LA County, Ghana, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Colombia or Uganda.
  • Frame research as embedding into government systems and service delivery, not standalone studies. They fund Mathematica, Stanford, UNC, UCLA that way.
  • Ask $750,000 to $1.5 million over multiple years for a defined phase with dissemination built in.
  • Name the population precisely: children 0-3, transition-aged foster youth, opportunity youth, or forcibly displaced caregivers.

Worth knowing: California recipients dominate by count (1,579 of 3,937 grants), and within that Los Angeles County homelessness work is the biggest domestic bet. Catholic sisters funding is a founder-driven legacy channel with its own recurring grantee set, including the affiliated Conrad N Hilton Fund for Sisters, and it operates through long relationships rather than open competition.

10 grants matching “aviation · $7.0M

  • $1.0M

    Air Serv International · Remington, VA · 2024

    To improve humanitarian flight operations in sudan, south sudan, and northern uganda for vital relief delivery and personnel transport, while enhancing the aviation professional development program at uganda's entebbe i read all
  • $1.0M

    Women in Aviation International · Germantown, OH · 2024

    To expand scholarships, offer leadership development, and promote science, technology, education, and mathematics education to provide more opportunities for women to pursue careers in the aviation industry

  • $500,000

    Kiddie Hawk Air Academy · Littleton, CO · 2023

    To bolster programming to recognize aspirational aviation achievements among youth, and fostering inspiration among their peers

  • $250,000

    Luftfahrt Ohne Grenzen · 2023

    To support sudden-onset disasters and existing humanitarian projects in greece, iraq, north macedonia, and romania with aviation services

  • $1.4M

    Direct Relief · Santa Barbara, CA · 2022

    To strengthen aviation resources to respond to increasing demands for high-value medical products from its network of healthcare providers globally

  • $1.0M

    Mission Aviation Fellowship · Nampa, ID · 2022

    To support humanitarian aviation and medical transport services serving remote areas of africa, central and southeast asia, and latin america

  • $645,000

    Aviation Connection USA Corp · Royal Palm Beach, FL · 2022

    To support the development and implementation of aviation connection's stem program in the united states

  • $600,000

    Women in Aviation International · Germantown, MD · 2022

    To support the launch of a new education program and assist members with career advancement through the technical skills training scholarship program

  • $500,000

    Women in Aviation International · Germantown, MD · 2022

    To strengthen the stem movement for youth through media, build industry partner coalition, and cultivate female aviation champions by introducing and educating children to aviation opportunities

  • $125,000

    Naval Aviation Museum Foundation · Nas Pensacola, FL · 2022

    To support the development of starbase pensacola to provide stem programming to 5th grade students in escambia country, florida

Top recipients

Repeat recipients are the strongest signal of whether a funder has an open door or quietly re-funds the same organizations.

  • United Way23 grants · $29.5M
  • Marywood University7 grants · $18.7M
  • The Task Force for Global Health2 grants · $15.6M
  • Brilliant Corners10 grants · $15.3M
  • Mercy Corps15 grants · $14.4M
  • Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors21 grants · $11.6M
  • The Regents of the University of California16 grants · $10.1M
  • Catholic Relief Services9 grants · $10.0M
  • Southern California Grantmakers43 grants · $10.0M
  • Norwegian Refugee Council USA3 grants · $9.0M

Giving over time

$413.3M
2022
$278.8M
2023
$286.0M
2024

Grant history

The 100 largest of 3,937 grants.

  • $15.5M

    The Task Force for Global Health · Decatur, GA · 2022

    To support an avoidable blindness fund that will support trachoma elimination in mali, niger, and tanzania, and see the completion of the cameroon cataract performance bond

  • $6.2M

    United Way · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To support direct investments in physical infrastructure and service delivery in faith and community-based organizations and targeted daytime/shelter service locations, and oversee implementation and evaluation

  • $5.0M

    International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2022

    To support a nurturing children program in uganda, kulea watoto, integrate early childhood care and development with economic wellbeing programming

  • $4.1M

    United Way · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To develop and deploy a series of market level workforce solutions that expand recruitment, increase retention, and improve operational capacity within the homeless service sector in los angeles county

  • $4.0M

    Sesame Workshop · New York, NY · 2022

    To support inclusion and belonging for refugee and migrant-hosting communities by nurturing early learning environments

  • $3.5M

    Marywood University · Scranton, PA · 2022

    To implement phase vi of the sisters leadership development initiative in ten countries in africa and establish an investment fund for sisters education

  • $3.5M

    Marywood University · Scranton, PA · 2024

    To implement phase iv of the higher education for sisters in africa program for sisters in multiple countries in africa

  • $3.3M

    Norwegian Refugee Council USA · Washington, DC · 2022

    To support two-generation youth livelihoods (8,600 youth) and early childhood development programming (6,000 children) in colombia, ecuador, and uganda

  • $3.1M

    United Way · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    To support direct investments in physical infrastructure and service delivery in faith and community-based organizations and targeted daytime/shelter service locations, and oversee implementation and evaluation

  • $3.1M

    Norwegian Refugee Council USA · Washington, DC · 2023

    To support two-generation youth livelihoods and early childhood development programming in colombia, ecuador, and uganda

  • $2.9M

    Marywood University · Scranton, PA · 2022

    To implement phase iii of the higher education for sisters in africa program

  • $2.9M

    New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department · Santa Fe, NM · 2022

    To strengthen a comprehensive cross-department prenatal to age 3 systems agenda including, home visiting services, support to tribal communities, and improved data

  • $2.9M

    Marywood University · Scranton, PA · 2024

    To implement phase vi of the sisters leadership development initiative in ten countries in africa and establish an investment fund for sisters education

  • $2.8M

    King Baudouin Foundation United States · New York, NY · 2022

    To support the world health organization to strengthen health systems to deliver and monitor services that support nurturing care for young children and to ensure global validity of the global scale for early development

  • $2.8M

    Marywood University · Scranton, PA · 2023

    To implement the higher education for sisters in africa program

  • $2.7M

    United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2022

    To embed early childhood development within existing systems and service delivery mechanisms at national and sub-national levels in kenya, tanzania, and mozambique, and to provide global and regional leadership and tech read all
  • $2.6M

    United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2023

    To embed early childhood development (ecd) within existing systems and service delivery mechanisms at national and sub-national levels in kenya, tanzania, and mozambique, and to provide global and regional leadership an read all
  • $2.6M

    Norwegian Refugee Council USA · Washington, DC · 2024

    To support two-generation youth livelihoods and early childhood development programming in colombia, ecuador, and uganda

  • $2.5M

    Amazon Frontlines · San Francisco, CA · 2024

    For general operating support

  • $2.5M

    One Acre Fund · Brooklyn, NY · 2023

    For general operating support (2023 hilton humanitarian prize recipient)

  • $2.5M

    Stiftelsen Flyktninghjelpen · 2022

    For general operating support

  • $2.4M

    Marywood University · Scranton, PA · 2023

    To implement the sisters leadership development initiative in ten countries in africa and establish an investment fund for sisters education

  • $2.4M

    Brac USA · New York, NY · 2022

    To support the scaling up of integrated two-generational programming for refugee and host communities in uganda

  • $2.4M

    Brilliant Corners · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    To advance strategic planning and leverage public investment within los angeles county's housing for health and the office of diversion and reentry to support people experiencing and at-risk of homelessness

  • $2.4M

    Path · Seattle, WA · 2022

    For continued support for scaling stream chlorine generator technology in healthcare facilities in ethiopia, ghana, and uganda; and the development of sustainability strategies and proof points for inclusion in governme read all
  • $2.3M

    Lunione Internazionale Delle Superiore Generali · 2024

    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 read all
  • $2.3M

    Universidad De Los Andes · 2024

    To scale-up a community-based psychosocial model promoting maternal mental health and early childhood development among refugees and forcibly displaced persons in colombia

  • $2.3M

    Uptime Catalyst Facility · 2024

    To scale-up performance-based contracting for safe water service delivery and influence regional and global financing of rural water services

  • $2.3M

    Jobs for the Future · Boston, MA · 2022

    To support the high roads training fund, a public-private partnership that supports the creation of high roads training partnerships as a strategy to tie worker training to job quality

  • $2.3M

    Mercy Corps · Portland, OR · 2022

    To promote social cohesion between refugee and host communities and foster mutually beneficial interactions through economic opportunities, improved livelihoods, and strengthened community-led governance structures in g read all
  • $2.3M

    National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company · Kansas City, MO · 2022

    To support and expand the global sisters report, an online publishing and exchange platform dedicated to sharing stories for and about catholic sisters and their mission, and to facilitating communications across the gl read all
  • $2.3M

    Brilliant Corners · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    To expand its operating capacity to serve as a larger fiscal intermediary in the homelessness sector in los angeles county

  • $2.2M

    United Way · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    To support the homeless response system in achieving operational excellence and expanding upstream solutions to homelessness in los angeles county

  • $2.2M

    Catholic Charities Diocese of San Diego · San Diego, CA · 2022

    To grow the faith in action network, a partnership between catholic sisters and catholic charities in san diego that weaves outreach ministries into a safety net of support that ensures the whole person well-being of vu read all
  • $2.1M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    To the mayors migration council, a project of rockefeller philanthropy advisors, inc., to help launch the global cities fund children and caregivers initiative, expand direct funding to city projects, and strengthen inf read all
  • $2.1M

    Catholic Relief Services · Baltimore, MD · 2024

    To strengthen the capacity of women religious in kenya, zambia, malawi, tanzania, and ghana in sustainable comprehensive responses for children and their families in early childhood development

  • $2.1M

    Ccf Community Initiatives Fund · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    For the la 4 la fund, a project of the ccf community initiatives fund, to accelerate the pace of housing development for people experiencing homelessness

  • $2.1M

    Ltsc Community Development Corporation · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    To support housing preservation work across the los angeles region and increase the organizations capacity in its multi-pronged approach to homelessness in little tokyo

  • $2.1M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2022

    To the mayors migration council, a project of rpa, to help launch the global cities fund children and caregivers initiative, expand direct funding to city projects, and strengthen infrastructure to provide technical ass read all
  • $2.1M

    Stichting Irc International Water and Sanitation Centre · 2023

    To support the community water and sanitation agency in its growth as a professionalized public utility in ghana, playing a stronger regulatory role within the sector in the context of rural water reforms in ghana

  • $2.0M

    Mercy Corps · Portland, OR · 2024

    To support venezuelan and colombian youth access employment and leadership opportunities in cartagena, medellin, valledupar, and other nearby municipalities

  • $2.0M

    Sesame Workshop · New York, NY · 2024

    To support inclusion and belonging for refugee and migrant-hosting communities by nurturing early learning environments

  • $2.0M

    World Vision · Federal Way, WA · 2024

    To extend the safe water enterprise model to more systems in asutifi north, expand service delivery to asunafo north, and co-design and pilot a drinking water sustainability fund for the rural water sector

  • $2.0M

    Aquaya Institute · San Anselmo, CA · 2023

    To support water quality testing in partnership with local laboratories and universities

  • $2.0M

    Mercy Corps · Portland, OR · 2023

    To support 10,000 venezuelan and colombian youth access employment and leadership opportunities in cartagena, medellin, and valledupar

  • $2.0M

    Splash International · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To implement a safe water delivery model for schools in bahir dar, ethiopia and create the groundwork to replicate the model into the rural safe water focal districts in amhara region

  • $2.0M

    Acumen Fund · New York, NY · 2022

    To support investments and provide technical assistance to refugee owned and serving businesses in uganda and ethiopia

  • $2.0M

    Africa Public Health Foundation · 2022

    For continued support of the africa cdc covid-19 equitable vaccine roll-out

  • $2.0M

    Duke University · Durham, NC · 2022

    To support covid-19 test-and-treat demonstrations using oral anti-viral medications in four low- and middle-income countries in sub-saharan africa in collaboration with the global alliance on vaccine equity

  • $2.0M

    Harvard University · Cambridge, MA · 2022

    To translate the newest scientific findings on prenatal to 3 child development into common language that can be understood and used by decision-makers and the public to better support families with young children

  • $2.0M

    Mercy Corps · Portland, OR · 2022

    To support 10,000 venezuelan and colombian youth access employment and leadership opportunities in cartagena, medellin, and valledupar

  • $2.0M

    National Center for Youth Law · Oakland, CA · 2022

    To support a collective impact campaign that will increase access to reproductive and sexual health care, economic assets/financial supports, improve wellbeing outcomes, and reduce unwanted pregnancies and child removal read all
  • $2.0M

    The African Alliance for HIV Prevention · 2022

    To support ports 2 arms, a community powered covid-19 vaccine and treatment equity tracking tool in rwanda, malawi, zambia, and south africa in collaboration with the global alliance on vaccine equity

  • $1.9M

    Zero To Three National Center for Infants Toddlers and Families · Washington, DC · 2022

    To scale the healthysteps holistic pediatric care model in los angeles county and advocate for improved local and national policies and financing to improve early childhood development outcomes

  • $1.9M

    Catholic Relief Services · Baltimore, MD · 2023

    To strengthen the capacity of women religious in kenya, zambia, malawi and ghana in sustainable comprehensive responses for children and their families in early childhood development

  • $1.9M

    International Rescue Committee · New York, NY · 2023

    To support a nurturing children program in uganda, kulea watoto, integrate early childhood care and development with economic wellbeing programming

  • $1.8M

    Safe Water Network · New York, NY · 2022

    To continue implementation of social enterprise model for safely managed water in ghana, with global knowledge generation

  • $1.8M

    Path · Seattle, WA · 2022

    To provide technical assistance to government and local partners to design, test, implement, and monitor integrated early childhood development interventions within national/sub-national health systems in mozambique and read all
  • $1.8M

    Irc International Water and Sanitation Centre · 2022

    To continue to provide systems strengthening and hub support to ethiopia, ghana, uganda and globally

  • $1.7M

    New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department · Santa Fe, NM · 2023

    To strengthen a comprehensive cross-department prenatal to age 3 systems agenda including, home visiting services, support to tribal communities, and improved data

  • $1.7M

    Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors · New York, NY · 2024

    For the international resource for impact and storytelling, a project of rockefeller philanthropy advisors, inc., to support a consortium of partners to enable young mothers and their young children to thrive in kenya, read all
  • $1.7M

    Brac USA · New York, NY · 2023

    To support the scaling up of integrated two-generational programming for refugee and host communities in uganda

  • $1.7M

    Sightsavers · Boston, MA · 2022

    To support the tanzania national trachoma program to eliminate the trichiasis backlog in six districts in arusha and manyara region

  • $1.7M

    Water4 · Oklahoma City, OK · 2022

    To renew service delivery model in wassa east, ghana and advocate for contractual arrangement

  • $1.7M

    United States Fund for Unicef · New York, NY · 2024

    To embed early childhood development (ecd) within existing systems and service delivery mechanisms at national and sub-national levels in kenya, tanzania, and mozambique, and to provide global and regional leadership an read all
  • $1.6M

    Catholic Relief Services · Baltimore, MD · 2022

    To equip local faith-based leaders and organizations to deliver quality early childhood development services and strengthen inter-faith networks in kenya, mozambique, and tanzania, with a targeted impact for 19,800 care read all
  • $1.6M

    County of Los Angeles Department of Public Health · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    To streamline available funding sources for home visitation programs in los angeles county and to stabilize and strengthen the early care and education system for children birth through age 3 through workforce supports read all
  • $1.6M

    Corporation for Supportive Housing · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    To support a multifaceted plan to address chronic homelessness in los angeles county through increasing access to and development of supportive housing, increased alignment with healthcare systems and statewide policy a read all
  • $1.6M

    Brilliant Corners · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    To expand its operating capacity to serve as a larger fiscal intermediary in the homelessness sector in los angeles county

  • $1.6M

    Stichting Irc International Water and Sanitation Centre · 2023

    To continue to provide systems strengthening and hub support to ethiopia, ghana, uganda and globally

  • $1.6M

    Brilliant Corners · San Francisco, CA · 2023

    To advance strategic planning and leverage public investment within los angeles county's housing for health and the office of diversion and reentry to support people experiencing and at-risk of homelessness

  • $1.6M

    Water4 · Oklahoma City, OK · 2023

    To renew service delivery model in wassa east, ghana and advocate for contractual arrangement

  • $1.6M

    Catholic Charities of Chicago · Chicago, IL · 2022

    To launch the peace corner mentoring program, which will help disadvantaged youth and their families navigate the critical period of early adolescence

  • $1.6M

    New Mexico Early Childhood Education and Care Department · Santa Fe, NM · 2024

    To strengthen a comprehensive cross-department prenatal to age 3 systems agenda including, home visiting services, support to tribal communities, and improved data

  • $1.6M

    Stanford University · Stanford, CA · 2024

    To elevate parent voices for regional (los angeles county) and statewide decision-making through launching a monthly statewide parent need survey for families with young children

  • $1.5M

    World Vision · Federal Way, WA · 2023

    To extend the safe water enterprise model to more systems in asutifi north, expand service delivery to asunafo north, and co-design and pilot a drinking water sustainability fund for the rural water sector

  • $1.5M

    The Aspen Institute · Washington, DC · 2023

    For ascend at the aspen institute to advance two generation policies and programs that address the needs of both young children and young parents

  • $1.5M

    Lunione Internazionale Delle Superiore Generali · 2023

    To continue support for the education and training of sisters in interculturality, anti-human trafficking, canon law and theology and to provide ongoing pandemic support for catholic sisters

  • $1.5M

    Zero To Three National Center for Infants Toddlers and Families · Washington, DC · 2023

    To scale the healthysteps holistic pediatric care model in los angeles county and advocate for improved local and national policies and financing to improve early childhood development outcomes

  • $1.5M

    Brac USA · New York, NY · 2024

    To support the scaling up of integrated two-generational programming for refugee and host communities in uganda

  • $1.5M

    Strathmore University Foundation · 2024

    To provide entrepreneurship education, training, and coaching to catholic sisters in order to build the financial sustainability of their charitable ministries

  • $1.5M

    The Regents of the University of California · Los Angeles, CA · 2024

    To support the california policy lab in improving performance metrics to drive data-driven decision-making and advancing knowledge in predictive modeling and prevention strategies for individuals experiencing homelessne read all
  • $1.5M

    Millennium Water Alliance · Washington, DC · 2023

    To launch a collective impact initiative for achieving safe water coverage across three woredas in ethiopia

  • $1.5M

    Path · Seattle, WA · 2023

    To transition paths support to integrate early childhood development services within health systems to government and local partners in kenya and mozambique

  • $1.5M

    The Regents of the University of California · Los Angeles, CA · 2023

    To support the california policy lab in improving performance metrics to drive data-driven decision-making and advancing knowledge in predictive modeling and prevention strategies for individuals experiencing homelessne read all
  • $1.5M

    Alima USA · New York, NY · 2022

    To provide free nutritional treatments and primary healthcare to children under five and pregnant/lactating women in tanganyika province, and establish a rapid response mechanism team for deployment across five province read all
  • $1.5M

    Aquaya Institute · San Anselmo, CA · 2022

    To support the real water quality assurance fund

  • $1.5M

    Brilliant Corners · San Francisco, CA · 2022

    To support 300 new interim housing beds and 55 motel-based interim housing slots for individuals experiencing homelessness with a serious mental health disorder, who are being diverted from los angeles county jail

  • $1.5M

    Firelight Foundation · Scotts Valley, CA · 2022

    To provide support to community-based organizations delivering early childhood development services to communities in zambia and malawi

  • $1.5M

    Millennium Water Alliance · Washington, DC · 2022

    To launch a collective impact initiative for achieving safe water coverage across three woredas in ethiopia

  • $1.5M

    Resilient Cities Catalyst · New York, NY · 2022

    To support the design and development of the california project prep program, a collaborative effort to develop a pipeline of equity- and resilience-building shovel worthy projects eligible for federal and state funding

  • $1.5M

    The Power of Nutrition · 2022

    To test approaches to providing integrated parenting support (nutrition, responsive caregiving and cash grants) in malawi

  • $1.5M

    The Regents of the University of California · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To support the california policy lab in improving performance metrics to drive data-driven decision-making and advancing knowledge in predictive modeling and prevention strategies for individuals experiencing homelessne read all
  • $1.5M

    United Way · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To support direct investments in physical infrastructure and service delivery in faith and community-based organizations and targeted daytime/shelter service locations, and oversee implementation and evaluation

  • $1.5M

    United Way · Los Angeles, CA · 2022

    To support implementation of the los angeles county affordable housing solutions agency and develop new financial instruments for permanent housing construction

  • $1.5M

    Uptime Catalyst Facility · 2022

    To scale-up and promote performance-based contracting for district-wide safe water service delivery

  • $1.5M

    Wateraid America · New York, NY · 2022

    To expand pilot on the handpump riser technology for safe water delivery in uganda to show proof of concept and secure government support

  • $1.5M

    Winrock International Institute for Agricultural Development · North Little Rock, AR · 2022

    To demonstrate a scalable revenue model for community solar water pumping in ethiopia

  • $1.5M

    World Vision · Federal Way, WA · 2022

    To improve and strengthen wash project design and implementation at healthcare facilities in ethiopia through the safe and friendly environment for healthcare facilities project

  • $1.5M

    X Prize Foundation · Culver City, CA · 2022

    To provide funding for the prize purse and operating budget support for xprize wildfire, a new competition that aims to catalyze the development of a technological solution for detecting and extinguishing a wildfire aut read all

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