In 2002, the Helen Diller Family Program in Jewish Studies donated $5 million to establish an endowment for a visiting Israeli scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley. In 2003, the Dillers donated $35 million to fund The Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Care Center at the UC San Francisco complex on the biomedical campus of Mission Bay. Since 1999, the Dillers have donated $200 million via their family foundation named after his wife, The Helen Diller Family Foundation. Other major gifts have funded Jewish studies programs at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz, the renovation of the Julius Kahn playground at the Presidio, and a new preschool in the San Francisco Jewish Community Center. Since 2007, the Diller Teen Tikkun Olam Awards have recognized Californian Jewish teens who are outstanding role Models in their communities.