Section 117 Ledger

Who received it (top 25 of 528)

Where it came from (top 20 of 188 source countries)

Qatar leads by dollars; the United Kingdom leads by transaction count. The foreign-government share shows how much of each country's total was flagged as coming from the government itself. Hong Kong is reported separately from China in the source and kept separate here — the same classification gap the farmland register carries.

The anonymity built into the law

For ordinary disclosures, Section 117 requires the source country and a government flag — not the name of the donor or counterparty. Only 2.9 percent of the disclosed dollars carry a named source, and those names are foreign government entities in restricted transactions. The rest of the ledger reads “a foreign source in China,” “a foreign source in Qatar” — by design. The largest named government sources:

The trend

Reporting behavior changed over time (thresholds, enforcement pushes, two reporting systems), so the trend reflects disclosure intensity as well as money flows. Full series from 1981 ships in the JSON.

What this data is, and is not

• Self-reported disclosures; the department does not independently verify amounts or classifications. 6 records carry receipt dates after 2026 (obvious typos, excluded from the year trend); 38 records are negative adjustments totaling $1,416,681.
• For non-restricted transactions the statute requires the source COUNTRY and a government flag — not the donor or counterparty name. Most of the ledger is therefore attributable only to "a foreign source in <country>". The named-entity share is computable from restrictedGovernmentSources.
• The file is cumulative across two reporting systems (Legacy flag); reporting thresholds and enforcement intensity changed over time, so year-over-year comparisons partly reflect reporting behavior, not only money flows. Data as of 2025-02-28; ED refreshes on an occasional snapshot cadence.
• Country labels are as filed; this compilation folds United Kingdom constituent labels (England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland) into United Kingdom and preserves raw values per country. Hong Kong is reported separately from China in the source and is kept separate here — the same classification gap documented in the farmland register.
• Transaction types disclosed: Contract ($37.44B), Gift ($13.67B), Restricted Contract ($8.49B), Restricted Gift ($2.79B), Real Estate ($15.9M).

Machine access

The full ledger — all 528 institutions, 188 countries, the 45-year trend, named government sources, and the caveats — ships as one keyless JSON document, CC0, self-describing under meta.schema.

import requests
ledger = requests.get('https://ai-analytics.org/section117/index.json').json()
harvard = next(i for i in ledger['institutions'] if 'Harvard' in i['name'])
print(harvard['amount'], harvard['topCountries'])

Also listed in the Voidly datasets manifest. Primary source: Department of Education Section 117 public records (as of 2025-02-28).