The Oak Foundation is a charitable foundation headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland. It was founded in 1983 by billionaire Alan M. Parker, co-founder of the duty-free company DFS Group.[2][3]
 Oak Foundation logo | |
| Formation | 1983 |
|---|---|
| Founder | Alan M. Parker |
| Focus | Charitable grants |
| Headquarters | Geneva, Switzerland. |
| Coordinates | 46°13′25″N 6°06′35″E / 46.2236°N 6.1097°E |
President | Douglas Griffiths[1] |
| Revenue | USD 383 million (grants made) |
| Website | oakfnd.org |
The foundation makes grants in eight major program areas plus two country-level programs (in Denmark and Zimbabwe).[4] In 2025, the Oak Foundation reported making roughly one thousand grants in 33 countries totaling US$383 million.[5]
Oak Foundation's support for issues such as climate justice[6] and human rights has attracted criticism from conservative organizations[7] and governments such as Russia's, where in January 2026 it was announced that the Oak Foundation was classified as undesirable in Russia[8] under the Russian undesirable organizations law.
References
edit- ↑ Oak Foundation has announced the appointment of Douglas Griffiths as the new President of Oak Foundation. alliancemagazine.org, 21 November 2018.
- ↑ Jon Nordheimer: Millions of Dollars Couldn't Keep DFS Group Together. New York Times 12 March 1997.
- ↑ "Oak Foundation | Devex". www.devex.com. Retrieved 16 April 2026.
- ↑ November 2025, Miguel Antonio Tamonan // 17 (17 November 2025). "The Oak Foundation's top grantees in low- and middle-income countries". Devex. Retrieved 16 April 2026.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ↑ "Home page". Annual Report 2025. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
- ↑ "A new focus for climate philanthropy: interview with Florence Tercier and Anne Henshaw". Alliance magazine. 7 June 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2026.
- ↑ "The Left's Green Giant: Meet the Oak Foundation". Retrieved 16 April 2026.
- ↑ "OAK Foundation". Inoteka. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
External links
edit- Oak Foundation website
- Oak Foundation European Foundation Center