Top administrators at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology continued to approve donations made by disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein after he was a convicted sex offender, and worked to keep his contributions out of the public eye in an effort to protect the college, according to a new a report detailing the Epstein’s relationship with MIT released Friday.

MIT commissioned Boston-based law firm Goodwin Procter to conduct an investigation that focused specifically on “interactions between Jeffrey Epstein and the Institute.” MIT’s president, L. Rafael Reif, requested the probe in September.

The report reveals that Epstein, who died by suicide on Aug. 10 while awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges, made 10 donations to the college between 2002 and 2017 totaling $850,000, and that several MIT administrators knew and approved of the contributions. With the exception of one $100,000 donation, all of those contributions had been made after he was convicted of sex crimes.

The report states three top administrators — Gregory Morgan, Jeffrey Newton and Israel Ruiz — were “aware of and approved” Epstein’s donations to Media Lab Director Joi Ito, who helped facilitate the some of the contributions.

Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Engineering Systems and Physics Seth Lloyd also accepted donations from Epstein, including two $50,000 contributions in 2012 intended to support his work. Lloyd did not inform MIT that Epstein was the source of the donations, according to the report.

Lloyd also received a $60,000 sum from Epstein, a gift that he deposited into his personal bank account that was not part of the total amount given to the college, the report states. Lloyd also solicited another donation from Epstein in 2017, totaling $125,000.

In an effort to protect the college’s reputation, Morgan, Newton and Ruiz “debated whether to accept Epstein’s post-conviction donations to the Media Lab," in good faith, before approving them, the report states. But they insisted that the donations “remain relatively small and unpublicized."

“Regardless of their intent, these administrators were aware of the risk that the donations might become public, but did not adequately consider the potential damage accepting donations from a convicted sex offender could cause to the MIT community,” the report states.

Epstein’s donations — and his visits to the campus — took place unbeknownst to Reif, the report states. Additionally, the report finds that no one else within the college’s central administration were aware of any of Epstein’s visits.

Because MIT had no policy with respect to controversial donors in place at the time, the decision to accept Epstein’s post-conviction donations cannot be judged to be a policy violation.

“But it is clear that the decision was the result of collective and significant errors in judgment that resulted in serious damage to the MIT community,” the report states.

The report says that Reif described the decision to accept donations from Epstein as a mistake. In a statement issued Friday, shared alongside the report, Reif said that Epstein was able to cultivate deep ties with members of the MIT community is “distressing and unacceptable.”

“This moment stands as a sharp reminder of human fallibility and its consequences,” he said. “However, I believe this day can also mark the start of a new process of shared learning, reflection, repair and rebuilding.”