In October 2016, it was announced Phil Knight and his wife Penny will contribute $500 million to establish the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact. The donation will be dispersed over a ten-year period. At the time it was the largest donation to a public research university. Knight gave an additional $500 million to the Knight Campus in 2021. In 2022, Steve Ballmer made a large gift of $425 million to fund a new institute for children's behavioral health. UO's recent gifts are among the largest in higher education history. All gifts were received during Schill's tenure as president.
