Oak Foundation

Oak Foundation
Formation1983 (1983)
FounderAlan M. Parker
FocusCharitable grants
HeadquartersGeneva, Switzerland.
Coordinates46°13′25″N 6°06′35″E / 46.2236°N 6.1097°E / 46.2236; 6.1097
President
Douglas Griffiths[1]
RevenueUSD 383 million (grants made)
Websiteoakfnd.org

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]

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

  1. ^ Oak Foundation has announced the appointment of Douglas Griffiths as the new President of Oak Foundation. alliancemagazine.org, 21 November 2018.
  2. ^ Jon Nordheimer: Millions of Dollars Couldn't Keep DFS Group Together. New York Times 12 March 1997.
  3. ^ "Oak Foundation | Devex". www.devex.com. Retrieved 16 April 2026.
  4. ^ 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)
  5. ^ "Home page". Annual Report 2025. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
  6. ^ "A new focus for climate philanthropy: interview with Florence Tercier and Anne Henshaw". Alliance magazine. 7 June 2016. Retrieved 16 April 2026.
  7. ^ "The Left's Green Giant: Meet the Oak Foundation". Retrieved 16 April 2026.
  8. ^ "OAK Foundation". Inoteka. Retrieved 12 April 2026.
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