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Foreign Funding Scrolly


Harvard's Foreign Funding in 2026
376 transactions

Each dot is one foreign gift or contract Harvard reported in 2026. $163 million in all, from 40 countries.

Gifts and contracts

217 gifts, $119.4 million. 159 contracts, in black, $43.7 million. Contracts carry terms; gifts generally do not.

Forty countries

53 transactions from China. 50 from the United Kingdom. 42 from Singapore. Switzerland sent 16.

Sized by dollars

Switzerland’s 16 transactions are worth $42.7 million — more than China’s 53 and the U.K.’s 50 together. Singapore’s 42 come to $2.9 million.

What the money was for

$49.7 million for research institutes and academic programs. $25.9 million for faculty posts and professorships. $8.8 million for financial aid. The rest carries no stated restriction.

The aid money

64 of the 78 aid records pay tuition for one named student, $1.8 million in all. The 14 that state a country or regional preference come to $6.9 million. China accounts for one $45,667 contract.

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