CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – The University of Virginia is 30th in the nation out of 555 higher learning institutions in reporting of foreign funding disclosures at just under $500-million.
A new U.S. Department of Education release said “These disclosures are required by Section 117 of the Higher Education Act (Section 117), which obligates universities receiving Federal financial assistance to disclose foreign source gifts and contracts with a value of $250,000 or more annually to the Department.
Out of the $499,578,299 submitted to the USDOE by the Dec. 16, 2025 deadline, $15,916,584 of it is from what the feds designate “countries of concern”.
All of it is in 26 transactions in China.
The largest foreign funding disclosure at UVA in the report was $59.6-million in Switzerland, followed by $51.4-million in Ireland, $44.2-million in Japan, and $41.5-million in Germany to round out the top-five.
The release declared, “The Trump Administration has taken unprecedented measures to bring transparency and accountability to foreign funding disclosures as required by law. The new portal allows the American people, Congress, and the media to inspect and analyze key features of disclosed foreign funding, including gifts and contracts received from parties designated as entities of concern by the U.S. Department of State among other federal agencies. It includes 11 additional data elements—a 61% increase in data points made available to the public.”
The 555 institutions reported $67.6-billion worth of foreign disclosures over 221 countries with the top-five Qatar, China, Germany, England, and Saudi Arabia.
According to the release, “Covering the period from 1986 through December 16, 2025, Harvard University has disclosed that it received more money from counterparties located in countries of concern (as identified at 42 U.S.C. § 19221(a)(1)) than any other institution of higher education, totaling over $610 million. Harvard is followed by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (over $490 million), New York University (over $462 million), Stanford University (over $418 million), and Yale University (over $400 million).”
