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- Nike co-founder Phil Knight and wife pledge record $2B to Oregon cancer center, university says</p>
<p>August 14, 2025 at 9:13 PM</p>
<p>1 / 2Oregon Cancer Research KnightFILE - This June 28, 2016 file photo shows the Oregon Health & Science University Campus in Portland, Ore. (Mark Graves/The Oregonian via AP, File)</p>
<p>PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) — Nike co-founder Phil Knight and his wife Penny Knight have pledged to donate $2 billion to Oregon Health & Science University's Knight Cancer Institute, the school announced Thursday, describing it as the largest single gift to a U.S. university.</p>
<p>"This gift is an unprecedented investment in the millions of lives burdened with cancer, especially patients and families here in Oregon," OHSU President Shereef Elnahal said in a statement.</p>
<p>The donation will help ensure patients have access to various resources, including psychological, genetic and financial counseling, symptom management, nutritional support and survivorship care, the university statement said.</p>
<p>"We couldn't be more excited about the transformational potential of this work for humanity," the Knights said in the statement.</p>
<p>The university described it as the "largest single donation ever made to a U.S. university, college or academic health center." It surpasses the $1.8 billion given by Michael Bloomberg to Johns Hopkins in 2018, described by that university at the time as the largest single contribution to a U.S. university.</p>
<p>Bloomberg also donated an additional $1 billion to Johns Hopkins last year, covering tuition, living expenses and fees for students from families under certain income levels.</p>
<p>The magnitude of the donation will allow the Knight Cancer Institute to become a self-governed entity with its own board of directors within OHSU, the university said.</p>
<p>Knight is Oregon's richest man. In 2013, he and his wife pledged $500 million to the cancer institute if the university matched it within two years. The match was met following $200 million in bonds from the Oregon Legislature, $100 million from then-chair of Columbia Sportswear Gert Boyle and donations from some 10,000 people, the university said.</p>
<p>Universities across the country are struggling with moves from President Donald Trump's administration to cancel or freeze research grants at universities.</p>
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