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Hilton Global Foundation at a glance

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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.

$6.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
9
States reached
$1.5M
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
0192% classified

What it funded, over time

Every grant placed by its stated purpose and the recipient’s mission, by year, FY2019 to 2024.

International$5.1MEnvironment$2.9MFood & Nutrition$1.2MYouth Development$966kEmployment$933kPhilanthropy$636kEducation$551kScience & Tech$550kOther$0
02FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under $10k5 grants · $25k
  • $10k–50k6 grants · $150k
  • $50k–250k9 grants · $1.1M
  • $250k+14 grants · $5.4M
$165,000
Median grant
9
States reached
$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOBAL IMPACT$1,484,512
DC CENTRAL KITCHEN$400,000
NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION$350,000
INTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION$350,000
Individual grant recipient$350,000
Individual grant recipient$300,000
THE FELIX PROJECT$300,000
CLEAN MEMPHIS$300,000
SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON$300,000
FOUNDATION MAROCAINE DE LEDUCATION POUR LEMPLOI$276,000
Individual grant recipient$250,000
WORLD WILDLIFE FUND$250,000
SEDRA FOUNDATION$250,000
SCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE$250,000
DOWN'S SYNDROME ASSOCIATION$224,000
02The need
03

Does the money reach high-need areas?

Each grant placed by the hardship in its grantee’s ZIP, against the area’s typical level.

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.

show:

Its 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 its grants land in higher-need ZIPs.

area typical 11%ENVISION FOUNDATION: $1k → 16%LOVE BEYOND WALLS: $53k → 13%CATHEDRAL KITCHEN: $5k → 12%AMERICAN RED CROSS: $50k → 14%0%20%40%50%more need →
grant to an above-average-need area below average· circle size = grant amount
How this is measured
Matched: human-services grants are those whose grantee’s IRS cause code is Human Services. Placed by people below the poverty line in the grantee’s ZIP, averaged from the tracts in that ZIP.

Which US states its grants reach

VT
WA
IL
WI
MI
NY
MA
NV
IN
OH
PA
NJ
CT
CA
MO
KY
VA
MD
AZ
KS
AR
TN
DC
HI
LA
AL
GA
TX
FL

Beyond the US: 27% of all-years giving ($4.4M)

29 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
United Kingdom$1.4M · 14 grants
Indonesia$667k · 6 grants
Malaysia$377k · 4 grants
Morocco$276k · 1 grant
United Arab Emirates$253k · 4 grants
New Zealand$252k · 3 grants
China$251k · 2 grants
Philippines$187k · 5 grants
Australia$144k · 4 grants
South Africa$120k · 3 grants
How this is measured
US grants placed by each grantee’s ZIP, which can differ from where services are delivered. Need from public data (U.S. Census/ACS, CDC PLACES, Eviction Lab, USDA), shown as context about the area, never attributed to the funder’s giving. International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same 990 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
04

Where the work is directed

The same grants placed two ways: where each recipient sits, and where its stated purpose sends the money.

About 20% of Hilton Global Foundation’s grant dollars are earmarked for a different county than the recipient’s own address. By recipient address, 16% of the giving stays in VA; by stated purpose, 13%.

Hilton Global Foundationlessmore of its giving
Placed by recipient address · 27% directed abroad (not shown)
How this is measured
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 funder’s own 990 grant descriptions.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
$6.2M · 19 repeat orgs$7.6M to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +28% since the first grant, against +11% for those 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

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
111

Total granted

$6.2M
$4.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+11%

Still filing today

68%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 39% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; $3.2M went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

Where new relationships form · theme of each grantee’s first grant

’19’20’21’22’23’24
EnvironmentInternationalPhilanthropyEmploymentHuman ServicesEducationOther
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). 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 INC
    3× · 2020–2024 · $740k · revenue +28%
  • TD
    THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC
    3× · 2019–2024 · $607k · revenue +85%
  • SS
    SECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON
    2× · 2023–2024 · $550k · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • CT
    CLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INCgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · $350k · revenue +39%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AM
    one grant, 2023 · $300k
  • WR
    WAKATIPU REFORESTATION TRUST
    one grant, 2023 · $251k
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent IRS filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Conservation International Foundation

Ci works to spotlight and secure the critical benefits that nature provides to humanity.

Environment
2
World Resources Institute

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…

International
3
Actionaid Usa

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…

Social Science
4
Wildaid Inc

Wildaid's mission is to inspire change and empower the world to protect wildlife and vital habitats from critical threats.

Animals
5
Friends of the Earth

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…

Environment
6
The Global FoodBanking Network

To nourish the world's hungry through uniting and advancing food banks.

International
7
Pact Inc

Pact is a nonprofit organization that builds evidence-based, data-driven, and community-led solutions for human development (continued in schedule o)

International
8
Asociacion Interamericana Para La Defensa Del Ambiente

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.

Crime & Legal
9
Rainforest Trust

Rainforest trust saves endangered wildlife and protects our planet by creating rainforest reserves through partnerships, community engagement, and donor support.

International
10
Clean International Inc

Clean international partners globally to deliver innovative solutions, education, and engagement to protect and provide water worldwide.

International
11
Counterpart International Inc

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…

International
12
Environmental Investigation Agency

To establish and promote programs to protect the global climate, forests, wildlife and the natural environment, through research, advocacy, and investigation.

International
How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Clean the World Foundation Inc; 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.
05the grantee network

63 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2025.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 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.

Each grantee is resolved to its own IRS returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
36/63
Grew since first funded

Where the money sits, by cause and then by grantee

THE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $607,190 · OtherTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INCSECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON: $550,000 · OtherSECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTONIndividual grant recipient: $375,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $350,000 · OtherBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF AM: $300,000 · OtherONLY A PAVEMENT AWAY CIO: $300,000 · OtherTHE FELIX PROJECT: $300,000 · OtherFOUNDATION MAROCAINE DE LEDUCATION POUR LEMPLOI: $276,000 · OtherWAKATIPU REFORESTATION TRUST: $251,000 · OtherSEDRA FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherFUNDACION PARA EL ESTUDIO DE L - BIO SUR FOUNDATION: $250,000 · OtherSCHOLARS OF SUSTENANCE: $250,000 · OtherIndividual grant recipient: $250,000 · Other+103 more: $3,154,612 · Other+103 moreINTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $2,072,528 · InternationalINTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATIONGlobal Impact: $2,007,336 · InternationalGlobal ImpactCLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 · InternationalCLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INCWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $347,500 · InternationalWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INCSTREETS INTERNATIONAL INC: $200,000 · International+8 more: $644,000 · International+8 moreWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $740,000 · EnvironmentWORLD WILDLI…NATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION: $350,000 · EnvironmentNATIONAL MAR…GLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE: $250,000 · EnvironmentGLOBAL WATER…KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC: $100,000 · EnvironmentKEEP AMERICA…HAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $100,000 · EnvironmentHAWAIIAN ISL…OCEAN CONSERVANCY: $100,000 · EnvironmentOCEAN CONSER…THE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $62,500 · Environment+6 more: $44,000 · EnvironmentHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $167,500 · PhilanthropyMAUI UNITED WAY: $167,500 · PhilanthropyONE TREE PLANTED INC: $50,000 · PhilanthropyTent Foundation Inc: $50,000 · Philanthropy+2 more: $10,000 · PhilanthropyCLEAN MEMPHIS INC: $300,000 · Community ImprovementTHE AHLA FOUNDATION: $165,000 · EducationTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $50,000 · EducationThe Black Culinarian Alliance Inc: $45,000 · Education+1 more: $5,000 · EducationMILLENNIUM WATER ALLIANCE: $150,000 · Arts & CultureTHE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 · Arts & Culture
Other$7,463,802International$5,621,364Environment$1,746,500Philanthropy$445,000Community Improvement$300,000Education$265,000Arts & Culture$250,000

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%$1.0M$10M$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetINTERNATIONAL YOUTH FOUNDATION: $2,072,528 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetGlobal Impact: $2,007,336 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetWORLD WILDLIFE FUND INC: $740,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE DC CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $607,190 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetSECOND SERVINGS OF HOUSTON: $550,000 over 2y, 23% of budgetCLEAN THE WORLD FOUNDATION INC: $350,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetNATIONAL MARINE SANCTUARY FOUNDATION: $350,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWORLD CENTRAL KITCHEN INC: $347,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCLEAN MEMPHIS INC: $300,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetGLOBAL WATER CHALLENGE: $250,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSTREETS INTERNATIONAL INC: $200,000 over 1y, 23% of budgetAMERICAN HOTEL & LODGING ASSOCIATION: $170,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetHAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION: $167,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAUI UNITED WAY: $167,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetGIVE2ASIA: $166,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE AHLA FOUNDATION: $165,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetWATERAID AMERICA INC: $160,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMILLENNIUM WATER ALLIANCE: $150,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetTEAM RUBICON INC: $111,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC: $100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetVITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC: $100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHOMEBOY INDUSTRIES: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MEMORIAL FOUNDATION INC: $100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetHAWAIIAN ISLANDS LAND TRUST: $100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOCEAN CONSERVANCY: $100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDIRECT RELIEF: $75,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Rescue Committee INC: $72,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPLANET WATER FOUNDATION: $64,336 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE POTOMAC CONSERVANCY INC: $62,500 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetECO-SOAP BANK: $62,421 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetLove Beyond Walls Inc: $52,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetTHE HOWARD UNIVERSITY: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE URBAN ALLIANCE FOUNDATION INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetONE TREE PLANTED INC: $50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAmerican National Red Cross & Its Constituent Chapters and Branches: $50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTent Foundation Inc: $50,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetThe Black Culinarian Alliance Inc: $45,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetRole Model Movement Inc (NFP): $40,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWATERORG: $40,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD FORWARD INC: $30,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOcean Rescue Alliance Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetJobs for America's Graduates Inc: $30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNATIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOUNDATION INC: $30,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetSafe Place International: $25,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetDAVIS MEMORIAL GOODWILL INDUSTRIES: $15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOLF RIVER CONSERVANCY INC: $10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOME INC: $7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood Bank of Eastern Michigan: $5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, 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 HAWAII COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAUI UNITED WAY ↗
  • 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 KEEP AMERICA BEAUTIFUL INC ↗
  • Who funds VITAL VOICES GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP INC ↗
  • Who funds HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES ↗

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Conrad N Hilton Found…Globalgiving Foundati…The Coca-Cola Foundat…National Arbor Day Fo…Tides FoundationAssurant FoundationGlobal ImpactGe Aerospace Foundati…Silicon Valley Commun…Jpmorgan Chase Founda…Shell USA Company Fou…The Blackbaud Giving …
Conrad N Hilton FoundationCA19.8× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

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

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

How much its grantees rely on government

Each dot is one organization Hilton Global Foundation funds: left to right is the share of its income from government, bottom to top the share from Hilton Global Foundation. Bigger dots raise more.

2024
’20’21’22’23’24’25
no gov · 50%3%13%28%50%funder's share of their income ↑0%25%50%75%100%share of the org’s income from government →median 17%
  • 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
no gov moneyreceives it· size = income
5get no government money at all
14report government grants on their 990 we could not trace to a source (not plotted)
1rely on government for over half their income
typical government reliance, FY20–25
How this is measured
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 a grant caused the public funding. Coverage is precision-first, a floor rather than 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 to 24 months.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from IRS e-file XML, the funder’s own 990/990-PF, and from the multi-year returns of the 155 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program-service reporting (Form 990, Part III), read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without an EIN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears.

Generated from the IRS Form 990-PF e-file return for fiscal year 2024, released 2024. Filings run roughly 12 to 24 months behind; figures are dated accordingly.

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The unnamed billions
grants reported with no recipient in the public record
The regranting layer
51% of grant dollars land in the regranting layer
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$9.7B circulates between donor-advised funds
The endowment market
who holds foundation money, and what just moved
The camps
funders cluster by geography, not ideology
By state
where grant money is based, and what stays home