Dillon Henry Foundation

About Dillon Henry Foundation

The Dillon Henry Foundation’s giving is built around a single international partner: Action Kivu received three of the largest recent grants, including $142,195 in 2023, $137,705 in 2024, and $117,846 in 2025. That repeated support points to a funder that favors sustained backing over a broad portfolio. The organization’s work connects to Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo, where the foundation’s stated focus centers on NGOs operating in the region and on humanitarian assistance and community rebuilding in post-conflict settings. Alongside that core relationship, the foundation also makes smaller grants to a mix of education, child welfare, human rights, and environmental organizations. Its recent awards include support for Surfrider Foundation, several universities, and partnerships tied to children, peacebuilding, and rights work. The pattern suggests a grantmaker that combines a concentrated international commitment with a limited set of additional general-support awards. The structured program descriptions also show recurring support for Congo Peace School, Rwandan Orphans Project, CASA of Los Angeles, Jewish World Watch, and WITNESS, which together indicate interest in education, trauma support, child protection, advocacy, and humanitarian work.

What Dillon Henry Foundation Funds

A clear theme in the foundation’s recent grants is support for education and child-focused work. It gave $3,000 to University of California - Riverside in 2024 and another $3,000 in 2023 as general support, while also making smaller awards to University of California - Davis, University of California - Los Angeles, and Santa Monica College. Another strand is humanitarian and peacebuilding work connected to the Democratic Republic of Congo. The foundation’s program descriptions link it to Congo Peace School, including support for building and operating the school to provide education, trauma support, and nonviolence training for street children. It also lists a partnership with Jewish World Watch for humanitarian and genocide-response work, including clinics serving victims in the Congo and Darfur. Environmental support appears as a separate topic area through a $15,000 grant to Surfrider Foundation in 2025. The foundation also shows child-welfare support through its CASA of Los Angeles partnership.

How Dillon Henry Foundation Gives