COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY as FEC employer text: $8.8 million

A private-university legal name on Schedule A

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. Faculty, staff, hospital affiliates, and others type COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY in the employer box. The $8,849,740 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not Columbia’s operating budget, not tuition, and not a NAICS 6113 rollup of all colleges.

People who typed COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN, BARNARD, TEACHERS COLLEGE, STUDENT, or PROFESSOR without the university name sit in other rows. Alumni who list a later private employer are not in these 1,089 donors unless a receipt still carried COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY.

1,089 donors and 40,160 lines

1,089 unique donors produced 40,160 COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY contribution lines totaling $8,849,740. That is on the order of 37 itemized receipts per donor. Line volume sits between UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON and UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA in paperwork shape, still as a separate stored string. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and campus PAC filings are outside the $8,849,740 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Repeat names among 40,160 lines are expected.

Harvard, Stanford, and UC stay on their own pages

HARVARD UNIVERSITY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, and UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON are separate school-name keys. Combining them with COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY would invent a higher-education recode. This page stays at $8,849,740 for COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the school — professor, physician, researcher, retired — as typed. TEACHER remains a generic-title row that may include K-12 staff who never named Columbia.

Donor table without grant inference

The COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach an NIH grant, a tuition policy, or a motive to that line. The FEC field is not a campus HR export.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This guide does not assign a partisan percentage to the school name. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts only.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $8,849,740, 40,160 contributions, 1,089 donors, top employer COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Unitemized gifts, state races, and campus PACs are omitted.

Compare HARVARD UNIVERSITY and UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON on the industry index. Occupation breakdowns show titles beside COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Cite $8,849,740 from FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS colleges table.

Barnard, Teachers College, and Harvard stay out

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY is not BARNARD, not TEACHERS COLLEGE, not COLUMBIA PRESBYTERIAN, and not HARVARD UNIVERSITY. Those strings sit on other keys. The $8,849,740 total, 40,160 contribution lines, and 1,089 donors describe this school legal name only. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA and UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON remain sibling school-name rows. STUDENT and PROFESSOR without the university name sit elsewhere.

Unitemized gifts, state races, campus PACs, and endowment activity stay outside the $8,849,740. Occupation pages show titles beside COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Alumni who still type the school name remain in the 1,089. The FEC field is not a campus HR export and not NAICS 6113. Repeat names among 40,160 lines are expected.

Open the COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY donor table for disclosed names and committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not an NIH-grant or tuition-policy inference. Cite $8,849,740, 40,160 contributions, and 1,089 donors from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports. Do not add affiliate names to this school string.

Researchers who want a Columbia-family recode must list BARNARD, TEACHERS COLLEGE, and hospital-affiliate names as separate additions. HARVARD UNIVERSITY and UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON stay on their own pages. The $8,849,740 figure does not absorb those rows. It stays on COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY as 1,089 donors and 40,160 lines. Follow recipient committees on the school donor table. Party share is not computed on the industry headline. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, self-reported employer text, not NAICS 6113, not the endowment, and not a campus PAC.

Questions

How much have COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $8,849,740 to the COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY employer string, from 40,160 contributions and 1,089 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a campus PAC and not a NAICS higher-education total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted from that figure.

Does this include Barnard or Teachers College as typed?

Only if the receipt grouped to COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Affiliate names such as BARNARD or TEACHERS COLLEGE are other stored strings when filers typed them. STUDENT and PROFESSOR without the university name sit in other keys. Figures here are limited to this FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this Columbia endowment or PAC spending?

No. The $8,849,740 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY. Endowment management and campus PAC filings are other categories. Coverage is itemized federal receipts only. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts only.

How many unique donors listed COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY?

The rollup counts 1,089 donors and 40,160 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count — on the order of 37 itemized receipts per donor. This is not a campus employee census. Coverage is itemized federal receipts only. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.