· Private foundation
Hilton Global Foundation
Its FY2024 filing reports that it funds preselected organizations and did not take unsolicited requests; check the foundation's own site before ruling it out.
What you funded, over time
Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year — across FY2019–2024.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under $10k5 grants · $25k
- $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
- $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
- $250k+14 grants · $5.4M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| GLOBAL IMPACT | $1,484,512 |
| DC CENTRAL KITCHEN | $400,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $350,000 |
| NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION | $350,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $300,000 |
| SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON | $300,000 |
| THE FELIX PROJECT | $300,000 |
| CLEAN MEMPHIS | $300,000 |
| FOUNDATION MAROCAINE DE LEDUCATION POUR LEMPLOI | $276,000 |
| WORLD WILDLIFE FUND | $250,000 |
| SEDRA FOUNDATION | $250,000 |
| SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE | $250,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | $250,000 |
| DOWN'S SYNDROME ASSOCIATION | $224,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, then read against the area’s typical level.
Your US giving — 73% of grant dollars ($12M). The need read here covers only this US portion; the 27% that went abroad ($4.4M) is mapped below.
Your human-services grants (FY20–23, $109k) land where the poverty rate runs at 13%, against an area that typically sits at 11%. 100% of those dollars go to grantees based in above-average-need neighborhoods. Most of your grants land in higher-need ZIPs.
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty linein the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP; grantee ZIP can differ from where services are delivered.
Which US states your grants reach
Beyond the US — 27% of all-years giving ($4.4M)
29 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are actually delivered. Need from public data — U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA — shown as context about the area, never attributed to your giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
Where the work is directed
The same grants, placed two ways — where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose earmarks the money.
About 20% of Hilton Global Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked, by their stated purpose, for a different county than the recipient’s own address — money that lands at a nonprofit in one place but is meant to do its work in another. Read by recipient address, 16% of the giving stays in VA; read by stated purpose it is 13% — less of the work is directed home than the recipients' locations suggest.
Recipient view: each grant at its grantee’s ZIP, mapped to a county. Directed view: each grant at the county its stated purpose names, falling back to the recipient’s county when the purpose names no place; US grants only. A county shows only if it carries the top 95% of that view’s dollars. Purposes are read from the foundation’s own 990 grant descriptions.
Who you back again
Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.
19 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 22 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.
Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant
First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.” Theme is the grantee’s IRS cause.
Backed again, and grew
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC3× · 2020–2024 · $740k · revenue +28%- TDTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC3× · 2019–2024 · $607k · revenue +85%
- SSSECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON2× · 2023–2024 · $550k · revenue +7%
Funded once
- CTCLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INCgraduatedone grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue +39%
- BBBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AMone grant, 2023 · $300k
- WRWAKATIPU REFORESTATION TRUSTone grant, 2023 · $251k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.
The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matchesthat aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.
Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.
Wri is committed to creating change that improves people's lives and ensures the natural world can thrive. (see schedule o)wri's bold vision requires a formula for success we call "count it. change it. scale it.":- count it: our work is…
Actionaid is an international network building a just, equitable, and sustainable world in solidarity with communities on the frontlines of poverty and injustice. actionaid usa is the u.s. branch of actionaid international, which works in…
Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.
Friends of the earth strives for a more healthy and just world by defendng the environment and human health while advancing social and economic justice by conducting research and education, transforming the economy so it protects the…
To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.
Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)
To strenghten people's ability to guarantee their individual and collective right to a healthy environment, via the development, implementation, and effective enforcement of national and international law.
Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.
Clean international partners globally to deliver innovative solutions, education, and engagement to protect and provide water worldwide.
For over 60 years, counterpart international has partnered with communities worldwide to turn local ideas into lasting solutions, connecting local vision with global opportunity. (continued on schedule o)we believe people closest to the…
To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clean the World Foundation Inc and the most unlike its peers is Para La Naturaleza Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
For each theme you fund, this compares how the sector’s money is shifting with how your own giving is shifting.
Sector change and giving change are each shown relative to their own range, growing (right) or shrinking (left); both normalized, so inflation isn’t mistaken for growth.
Your grantees are a median of 27 years old; the field is 16. You back the established end — and your money leans older still.
The field is 22% startups (under 5 years old) — 3% of your grantees by number, and just 1% of your money.
The orgs you fund almost never close — 0.0% lost their exemption, against 13% of the field you don’t fund.
Age = years since IRS exemption (a founding proxy). “Closed” = auto-revocation for 3 years of non-filing — a floor on closure, not proof, and bigger established orgs lapse least. Association, not causation.
63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.
Each one resolved to its own IRS returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.
Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2025, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 63 of the 155 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.
Where your money sits — by cause, then by grantee
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them
A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.
- Who funds INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Global Impact ↗
- Who funds WORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC ↗
- Who funds THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON ↗
- Who funds CLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC ↗
- Who funds CLEAN MEMPHIS INC ↗
- Who funds GLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE ↗
- Who funds STREETS INTERNATIONAL INC ↗
- Who funds AMERICAN HOTEL & LODGING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
- Who funds HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GIVE2ASIA ↗
- Who funds THE AHLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WATERAID AMERICA INC ↗
- Who funds MILLENNIUM WATER ALLIANCE ↗
- Who funds TEAM RUBICON INC ↗
- Who funds THE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
- Who funds VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
- Who funds HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST ↗
- Who funds OCEAN CONSERVANCY ↗
The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.
Open a dossier: Conrad N Hilton Foundation · Globalgiving Foundation Inc · The Coca-Cola Foundation Inc · National Arbor Day Foundation · Tides Foundation · Assurant Foundation · Global Impact · Ge Aerospace Foundation · Silicon Valley Community Foundation · Jpmorgan Chase Foundation · Shell USA Company Foundation · The Blackbaud Giving Fund
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.
Government reliance of your grantees
Every dot is one organization Hilton Global Foundation funds. Left–right is the share of its income from government; up–down is the share from you. Bigger dots raise more. Filter to federal or a single department — and drag the year to watch it move.
- National Marine Sanctuary Foundation — 88% of income from government
- International Youth Foundation — 17% of income from government
- Clean the World Foundation Inc — 0% of income from government
Government income is each org’s traced federal awards (USASpending — grants and contracts) plus state payments (open checkbooks) as a share of its total revenue (IRS Form 990); the self-reported government-grant line (990 line 1e) is carried for cross-check: a grantee that reports government grants we could not trace to a source is left off the chart rather than shown as receiving none. An association, not a claim that your grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first — a floor, not a census; state records exist for 9 states, so a grantee outside them shows no state figure (dimmed) rather than a false zero. Federal award amounts are obligations, which can span years, so a single-year share is indicative. 990 filings lag 12–24 months.