The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust is a foundation established in 1999 and administered by four trustees selected by Leona Helmsley. The Trust supports a wide range of organizations, with a major focus on health and medical research, in addition to conservation, education, social services and cultural access.http://www.helmsleytrust.org/about-us ABOUT US
Donations and Grants Since 2009, the trust has spent over $850 million on rural health care in the Midwest and Rocky Mountain regions of the US, focusing on psychiatric, cardiac and cancer care.
In October 2014, the trust announced $9.6 million in grants to the Technion, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, The Weizmann Institute of Science and The Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs (JCPA).
In April 2022, the Trust, announced a $22.5 million donation to the Neglected tropical diseases fund, The END Fund. The aim of the donation was to aid in the supporting 1.7 billion people affected by EDN's such as onchocerciasis (river blindness) and lymphatic filariasis (LF) across Ethiopia, Sudan and South Sudan.
In June 2026, the Trust awarded a $29 million grant to the Weizmann Institute of Science to support the reconstruction of research facilities damaged during an Iranian missile strike on the institute's campus in 2025.
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