International body
Government of Qatar
Documented money flows
- Government of Qatar to BGR Government Affairs, LLC, fee, $420,000, Six months ending 30 November 2025. Exhibit 822
- Government of Qatar to Bachner Group LLC, fee, $420,000, Six months ending 30 November 2025. Exhibit 822
- Government of Qatar to Brookings Institution, donation, $14,800,000, Four-year agreement signed 2013. Exhibit 846
- Government of Qatar to U.S. colleges and universities, payment, $8,800,000,000, Cumulative to 23 February 2026. Exhibit 847
Findings that rest on exhibits naming this entity
- POL-6.11: The New York Times reported on 6 September 2014 that at least 64 foreign governments, state-controlled entities or officials had contributed to 28 major U.S. research organizations since 2011, at least $92 million according to institutional disclosures, government documents and foreign lobbying reports. The Times reported that the organizations did not disclose the terms of their agreements and had not registered under FARA. Brookings and the Atlantic Council told the Times that their scholars are independent.
- POL-6.17: Under Section 117 of the Higher Education Act, Qatar was on 23 February 2026 the largest country of attribution for reported foreign gifts and contracts at U.S. colleges and universities, about $8.8 billion in about 1,300 transactions, and China was second at about $4.9 billion in about 8,000. The Education Department opened 19 Section 117 investigations from 2019 to 2021 under the first Trump Administration, none under the Biden Administration and four to date under the second Trump Administration.
Exhibits naming this entity
- Exhibit 846 6 September 2014 (web date 7 September). Eric Lipton, Brooke Williams and Nicholas Confessore, The New York Times: Foreign Powers Buy Influence at Think Tanks
- Exhibit 847 25 March 2026. Congressional Research Service: Section 117 of the Higher Education Act: Reporting of Foreign Gifts and Contracts, CRS In Focus IF12927 (updated 25 March 2026)