College Foreign Gift Reporting

College Foreign Gift and Contract Report

Section 117 of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) requires institutions of higher education that receive Federal financial assistance to disclose semiannually to the U.S. Department of Education any gifts received from and contracts with a foreign source that, alone or combined, are valued at $250,000 or more in a calendar year. The statute also requires institutions to report information when owned or controlled by a foreign source.

Over 30 years ago, Congress enacted these disclosure requirements to promote public transparency about the role of foreign funding in U.S. higher education. Additional information related to Section 117 can be found on the Department’s website.

The interactive data displayed below reflects foreign gifts and contracts that institutions of higher education reported to the Department through the updated reporting portal, which became available for data entry on June 22, 2020. It therefore displays all foreign gifts and contracts reported between April 6, 2023, and October 13, 2023, no matter when the underlying transaction took place. Additionally, in accordance with 20 U.S.C. 1011f(e), certain foreign gift and contract information reported to the Department constitutes public records, including the information displayed below and additional historic data. A complete copy of all such public records may be downloaded here. Please note that all data, new and historic, is self-reported by institutions.

School Name:

State:

Transaction Type:

Country:

Gift Contract/Amount:

Gift/Start Date:

School Name	State	Transaction Type	Is this funding from a government?	Country	Gift Contract/Amount	Gift/Start Date	Contract End Date	Legacy Data	DonationID	Details
Samford University	AL	Gift	No	CANADA	500,000	06/02/2023	11/30/-0001	No	0	More details
Arizona State University	AZ	Gift	No	INDONESIA	250,000	03/17/2023	11/30/-0001	No	1	More details
Arizona State University	AZ	Gift	No	INDONESIA	250,000	03/17/2023	11/30/-0001	No	2	More details
San Francisco State University	CA	Gift	Yes	KUWAIT	73,316	04/28/2023	11/30/-0001	No	3	More details
Stanford University	CA	Gift	No	SINGAPORE	10,000,000	01/25/2023	11/30/-0001	No	4	More details
Stanford University	CA	Gift	No	SINGAPORE	1,000,000	04/11/2023	11/30/-0001	No	5	More details
Stanford University	CA	Gift	No	NETHERLANDS	20,000,000	05/30/2023	11/30/-0001	No	6	More details
Stanford University	CA	Gift	No	JAPAN	75,000	04/07/2023	11/30/-0001	No	7	More details
Stanford University	CA	Gift	No	JAPAN	200,000	03/28/2023	11/30/-0001	No	8	More details
Stanford University	CA	Gift	No	JAPAN	30,000	02/15/2023	11/30/-0001	No	9	More details
School Name	State	Transaction Type		Country	Gift Contract/Amount	Gift/Start Date

*Walden University and Schiller International University have reported themselves as Non-U.S. Owned/Controlled Institutions. Walden University has reported to the Department that it was purchased by a U.S. corporation on August 12, 2021.

Questions and Comments

If you have technical questions or access issues related to the Section 117 electronic reporting portal, please contact our information technology office at ForeignGiftsAccess@ed.gov.

For all other questions about the Department’s Section 117 efforts, please contact our compliance team at ForeignSourceReporting@ed.gov or send to:

U.S. Department of Education
Office of Federal Student Aid
Attn: HEA Section 117 Compliance
830 First Street, N.E.
Washington, DC 20002

Current and Archival Copies of All Public Section 117 Records through: