Oak Foundation

Oak Foundation
Formation1983; 43 years ago (1983)
FounderAlan M. Parker
PurposeCharitable grants
HeadquartersGeneva, Switzerland.
Coordinates46°13′25″N 6°06′35″E / 46.2236°N 6.1097°E / 46.2236; 6.1097
President
Douglas Griffiths
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.

The foundation makes grants in eight major program areas plus two country-level programs (in Denmark and Zimbabwe). In 2025, the Oak Foundation reported making roughly one thousand grants in 33 countries totaling US$383 million.

Oak Foundation's support for issues such as climate justice and human rights has attracted criticism from conservative organizations and governments such as Russia's, where in January 2026 it was announced that the Oak Foundation was classified as undesirable in Russia 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.