Funding to universities by the Oak Foundation

According to our research of its university funding between 2014-2020:

• ·Oak has given $74.6m to 65 universities in 14 countries; 93% of funding went to 58 universities in North America and Europe.

• The biggest country beneficiary was the US which awarded $43.4m to 33 universities and colleges.

• The second biggest country beneficiary was the UK. 13 British universities received $17.4m in Oak funding.

• The third biggest country beneficiary was Canada.  5 Canadian universities shared $3.1m over the past 10 years.

• John Hopkins University is the single biggest recipient of Oak funding.

• The top three recipient institutions are John Hopkins University ($11.5m), Oxford ($8.9m) and the University of North Carolina (Chapel Hill) ($6m).

• 31% ($22.8m) went to European universities, making Europe the second biggest regional recipient of giving after North America. 20 universities in 6 European countries benefitted from Oak funding. 76% of European funding landed up at UK universities

• Oak $2.3m to three African universities – Makerere (Uganda), Mpumalanga (South Africa) and the University of Cape Town (South Africa).

• In the Latin America and Caribbean region, Oak awarded $1.5m to two institutions in Belize and Brazil.

The prevention of child sexual abuse is a major focus of the Foundation’s efforts.  It runs two sub-programmes to: (1) promote, advance and scale up solutions to reduce child sexual abuse; and (2) engage with and hold global institutions accountable to prevent abuse and to end impunity for child sexual abuse. The single biggest award in our seven year review of Oak funding was made in 2020 to John Hopkins University. Oak gifted $10.3m for a programme to identify and evaluate the most promising child sexual abuse perpetration prevention interventions.