Phil Knight
American billionaire and co-founder of Nike
Source: Wikidata — retrieved 10/11/2026 (wikidata)Dispute
Profile Summary
A net worth stated in this summary may be out of date.
Wikidata identifies Phil Knight as an American billionaire and co-founder of Nike, with an estimated net worth of ~$40.8B. Wikidata Nike identifies him as its co-founder and chairman emeritus. Nike
Business & SEC Activity
Nike says it designs and sells athletic footwear, apparel, and equipment worldwide under the Nike, Jordan, and Converse brands. Nike SEC filings identify Knight as an insider associated with Nike and show 697 insider filings; Form 4 filings report changes in an insider's ownership of a public company’s securities. SEC EDGAR Recent Form 4 filings include filings dated February 13, 2026, February 4, 2026, and December 30, 2025. SEC EDGAR
Philanthropy
OPB and OHSU say Knight has given at least $2.7B to OHSU’s Knight Cancer Institute since 2008. OPB The amount is described as a conservative floor and does not include certain other gifts and pledges. OPB
U.S. Presence
Business
Designs and sells athletic footwear, apparel, and equipment worldwide under the Nike, Jordan, and Converse brands.
Source: NikeDirect Giving
At least $2.7B given to OHSU's Knight Cancer Institute over the years (conservative floor — excludes Stanford and a 2025 $2B pledge not yet disbursed).
Direct gifts made outside a private foundation (no 990 filing) — counted in the giving score.
Political Contributions
These figures cover the 100 most recent of 987 federal contributions on file, not the full record. The total, party split, top recipients and dates below are all computed over that sample, so each is a floor rather than a complete figure.
By Party (in the sample)
Every party in this sample is listed here. The bars are rounded for display; unrounded they total exactly $3,066.53.
Top Recipients (in the sample)
Matched by name only. These donations are matched to this person by name only, so some may belong to a different person with the same name: FEC filings can include a donor's employer and city, but our matching does not check them against what we know about this person.
SEC Filings
Associated Companies
Entities appearing alongside this person in SEC full-text search — an association, not necessarily ownership or control. Follow each link to the primary SEC record to judge for yourself.
Recent Insider Filings
Score Breakdown
The giving score is a weighted average of 2 components. The formula is open and versioned — the weight percentages below show how much each component contributes to the final score.
Evidenced charitable giving — built on what they actually give each year, not parked assets. Dominated by generosity (annual giving relative to net worth — the share of your fortune you give), plus the absolute scale of that giving, plus a small nudge for signing the Giving Pledge (a commitment, not a realized action).
Data: ProPublica 990 charitable disbursements, net worth, The Giving Pledge registry
How much sourced public record we hold about this person — net worth, SEC filings, foundation 990s, news coverage, Wikidata. It measures our coverage, not how open the person is. Each further kind of record scores higher, up to eight. Political donation records matched to a person by name alone are not counted: they may belong to someone else with the same name. From October 7, 2026, our own AI-written summary and the profile photo are not counted either — neither is a public record — so grades that leaned on them moved down that day.
Data: SEC EDGAR, ProPublica 990s, GDELT / NewsAPI, Wikidata
Formula (v2): Giving score = 65% x Philanthropy + 35% x Data coverage
Scored on 10/16/2026 on a 0–100 scale. The score uses only the signals we have populated data for. Goal Impact, Controversy, and Community Approval are deferred until that data exists — Phase 1 goal adoption, controversy detection, and community votes respectively.
All data is sourced from public records. Each section links to its original source. View on Wikidata