Total
$42,400,000
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Our Grantmaking in 2017
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$9,350,000
This amount represents our total giving for youth substance use prevention and early intervention.
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$1,545,000
This amount represents our total giving for the year to date for achieving healthy and productive lives for transition-age youth in foster care.
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$5,800,000
This amount represents our total giving for increasing access to safe water for vulnerable and disadvantaged communities.
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$1,935,000
This amount represents our total giving for preventing avoidable sight loss from cataracts and blinding trachoma.
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$8,700,000
This amount represents our total giving for ending chronic homelessness in Los Angeles County.
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$1,200,000
This amount represents our total giving for building a global Catholic sisterhood to advance human development.
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$1,000,000
This amount represents our total giving for supporting disaster preparedness, relief, and long-term recovery.
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$1,476,000
This amount represents our total giving for non-priority grantmaking which includes small and matching discretionary grant programs for board members, staff and members of the Hilton family.
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$0
This amount represents our total giving for revitalizing Catholic schools serving low-income families.
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$305,000
This amount represents our total giving for building career pathways for youth in the hospitality sector
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Young Children Affected by HIV and AIDS
$8,800,000
This amount represents our total giving for the year to date for improving early childhood development outcomes for young children affected by HIV and AIDS.
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$3,780,000
This amount represents our total giving for seeking a cure and improving quality of life for those who live with multiple sclerosis.
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Catholic Sisters
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Foster Youth
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Homelessness
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Substance Use Prevention
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Young Children Affected by HIV and AIDS
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Avoidable Blindness
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Safe Water
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Catholic Education
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Disaster Relief & Recovery
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Hospitality
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Multiple Sclerosis
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Other
This total represents grant payment activity during the selected fiscal year. However, approximately 90% of the money awarded in our priority program areas is part of multi-year commitments, so a grant may appear in multiple years of activity. The list below provides additional information about specific projects approved and/or paid during the fiscal year selected, including the project start date and the length of our commitment.
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National Institutes of Health
$585,000 through June 2022
to study how to reduce chronic inflammation in MS patients. www.nih.gov
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Regents of the University of Colorado
$120,000 through June 2019
to study mechanisms regulating MS-related myelin injury and repair in cortical lesions. www.ucdenver.edu
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World Vision
$800,000 through May 2018
to support a strategic partnership with IRC to plan and implement comprehensive water projects in the planned district-based programs in Ghana, Mali and Niger. www.worldvision.org
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Baylor College of Medicine
$120,000 through June 2019
to study how targeting the Wnt receptor complex may increase myelin repair in MS patients. www.bcm.edu
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Jibu, L3C
$1,000,000 through July 2027
to make a program related investment (PRI) into Jibu, a social franchise providing safe water in Uganda and Mali.
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Partnership for a Drug Free America
$750,000 through June 2019
to equip parents with resources to address youth substance use. www.drugfree.org
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Sisters of Mercy of the Americas
$840,000 through December 2019
to support programs and build organizational capacity of the inter-congregational Leadership Collaborative to prepare young sisters for leadership positions. www.sistersofmercy.org
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PATH
$8,200,000 through June 2021
to scale up early childhood development services as part of health systems in Mozambique, Kenya, and Zambia. www.path.org
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The New York Opportunity Network, Inc.
$500,000 through May 2018
for general operating support to facilitate the organization's strategic growth plan. http://opportunitynetwork.org
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Massachusetts General Hospital
$120,000 through June 2019
to develop imaging markers of axonal damage and myelin integrity in MS patients using ultra-high gradient MRI techniques. http://www.massgeneral.org/
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Washington University
$120,000 through June 2019
to identify biomarkers in cerebrospinal fluid that may predict MS disease progression and responses to therapy. http://www.wustl.edu
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center
$120,000 through June 2019
to apply advanced imaging to the study of the cervical spinal cord in patients with MS. https://ww2.mc.vanderbilt.edu/
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Johns Hopkins University
$120,000 through June 2019
to identify new biomarkers of inflammation and neurodegeneration using the plasma of patients with MS. http://www.jhu.edu
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University of Southern California
$120,000 through June 2019
to study the potential of angiotensin 1-7 to promote oligodendrocyte progenitor cell remyelination. http://www.usc.edu
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Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
$395,000 through June 2022
to study astrocytic regulation of immune cell activity during central nervous system inflammation. http://icahn.mssm.edu
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Johns Hopkins University
$620,000 through June 2022
to use advanced imaging techniques to study what role astrocytes cells in the cortex may play in promoting remyelination in MS. http://www.jhu.edu
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University of California, San Francisco
$120,000 through June 2019
to study misfolded tau aggregates found in the brains of MS patients. http://www.ucsf.edu
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Case Western Reserve University
$120,000 through June 2018
to study the unifying mechanisms all remyelinating molecules have in common and to share findings with the field of MS research. https://case.edu/
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New York Stem Cell Foundation, Inc.
$120,000 through June 2019
to study the properties of oligodendrocyte progenitor cells in MS. http://www.nyscf.org
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Regents of the University of California, Irvine
$120,000 through June 2019
to study whether lower GlcNAc levels promote the progression of MS by preventing oligodendrocyte formation and reducing remyelination. http://www.research.uci.edu/about/index.html