NEW: The Education Department just launched a searchable database of foreign gifts and contracts reported by U.S. universities.

The portal includes only the gifts and contracts reported since June this year. Link below has a jump to the historical data.

https://sites.ed.gov/foreigngifts/ 

The launch of the portal is coming hours before a major announcement by @BetsyDeVosED on the findings of the ongoing investigation into undisclosed foreign gifts and contracts to U.S. universities. DOJ and State Dept. will be at the 3 p.m. event.

DOE is investigating 12 elite universities over failure to disclose foreign gifts. Case Western U. failed to report foreign gifts and contracts for 12 years. Stanford began anonymizing gifts after it opened a center in Beijing in 2012.

I crunched the historical data and the numbers from the new DOE portal. Below are the top 20 universities in terms of the amount of gift and contract money they reported accepting from China. Harvard leads with $115 million.

And here are the top 20 universities in terms of total foreign gifts and contracts reported. Carnegie Mellon is #1 with nearly $1.61 billion in foreign funds reported.

U.S. universities reported taking a total of $19.6B from foreign sources.

And here are the top 20 countries in terms of total gifts to and contracts with U.S. universities (as reported by the schools.)