Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize
A $3 million unrestricted prize to a nonprofit alleviating human suffering. There is no application: a third party who knows the work must nominate the organisation during an open nomination window.
- Indicative award
- $3M (total award)The page states the prize is $3 million, described as the world's largest annual humanitarian award to nonprofit organizations.
- Timing
- Annual cycleAnnual cycle · May, AprPublished deadline: 2027-04-30 — 259 days awayThe nomination window for the 2028 Prize runs May 1, 2026 through April 30, 2027. Nomination is by signed letter of at most four pages submitted through the foundation's nominations portal.
- Who can apply
- Community organisation, Practitioner
- Eligibility
- Nominees must be nonprofits (not individuals) with 501(c)(3) or international equivalent status, five years of operation, five consecutive years of audited financials, and annual expenditures over $750,000. Academic institutions, prior recipients, local chapters of larger bodies, and programmes without independent tax status are ineligible. Nominators must have direct knowledge of the work and no employment, board-payment, founder, or family tie to the nominee.
- SSWR clusters
- Topics
- humanitarian relief · global nonprofits · unrestricted funding
- Apply at
- https://www.hiltonfoundation.org/prize/nomination/
- This entry
- Curated by the working group. Written 2026-08-07. The funder link has not yet been machine-checked.
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