Education

Harvard Financial Pain Grows as Blavatnik Joins Donor Revolt

  • Billionaire pauses gifts to school amid antisemitism furor
  • University is still richest in US with $51 billion endowment
WATCH: Bill Ackman amps up pressure on Harvard.Source: Bloomberg

The list of Harvard University’s disaffected donors has added another billionaire: Len Blavatnik.

His family foundation has given at least $270 million to Harvard, but it’s pausing donations in the wake of university President Claudine Gay’s widely derided congressional testimony on antisemitism, according to a person with direct knowledge of the matter.