The Hall Family Foundation has committed $18-million toward the University of Kansas’s effort to win federal recognition for its cancer center, reports The Kansas City Star.

The gift amounts to nearly a fifth of the school’s $92-million goal in its campaign to achieve a National Cancer Institute designation. Two-thirds of the money from the Kansas City foundation will be used to recruit scientists and researchers to the center; the remainder pays for a building the foundation purchased in 2008 and is donating to house a clinical-trials facility.