Helen M. McLoraine
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Helen Myers McLoraine was the founder of The Pioneer Fund, a philanthropic organization "with a focus on figure skating, higher education assistance and medical research". She was a private investor in the gas and oil industry since the 1950s and became an early female figure in business leadership. After its establishment in the 1960s, she has maintained The Pioneer Fund through her own estate and from private donations.
The Helen M. McLoraine Figure Skating Scholarship Program provides $150,000 per year in undergraduate university scholarships to students who have competed in a USFS qualifying competition. Olympic medalist Scott Hamilton
was a benefactor of The Pioneer Fund's support of figure skating and currently serves on its board of directors.
Ongoing scholarships have been funded at Regis University
, The Denver Foundation, and Girls Inc. In addition, The Pioneer Fund supports the Helen McLoraine Developmental Chair in Neurobiology at the Salk Institute and has provided continued research and postdoctoral grants. According to IRS returns, The Pioneer Fund provided $8.3 million in donations in 2009.
The Helen M. McLoraine Figure Skating Scholarship Program provides $150,000 per year in undergraduate university scholarships to students who have competed in a USFS qualifying competition. Olympic medalist Scott Hamilton
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was a benefactor of The Pioneer Fund's support of figure skating and currently serves on its board of directors.
Ongoing scholarships have been funded at Regis University
Regis University
Regis University is a private, co-educational Roman Catholic, Jesuit university in the United States. Founded by the Society of Jesus in 1877, it is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities...
, The Denver Foundation, and Girls Inc. In addition, The Pioneer Fund supports the Helen McLoraine Developmental Chair in Neurobiology at the Salk Institute and has provided continued research and postdoctoral grants. According to IRS returns, The Pioneer Fund provided $8.3 million in donations in 2009.
Significant contributions
- Multiple Myeloma Research Consortium ($1.5 million)
- Brain Research Foundation ($1.5 million) for atypical dementia research at the University of ChicagoUniversity of ChicagoThe University of Chicago is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890...
- International Rett Syndrome Foundation ($1 million matching gift)
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Foundation for Parkinson's Research gift to make possible a $2 million research grant for the Clinical Discovery Program - University of ColoradoUniversity of ColoradoThe University of Colorado system is a system of public universities in Colorado consisting of three universities in four campuses: University of Colorado Boulder, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, and University of Colorado Denver in downtown Denver and at the Anschutz Medical Campus in...
($1 million) to establish the Pre-Collegiate Pioneer Fund Scholarship Program - Scott Hamilton Cancer alliance for Research, Education and Survivorship at the Taussig Cancer Center of the Cleveland Clinic ($5 million from McLoraine's will)
- Pituitary Network Association