MIT as FEC employer text: $7.3 million

Three letters that are not a tech-industry code

Faculty, staff, lab employees, and others type MIT in the employer box. LobbyVault ranks that grouped text. The $7,257,813 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not Massachusetts Institute of Technology spelled out if stored as a longer string, not INTEL CORPORATION, and not a NAICS colleges rollup.

People who typed MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY, STUDENT, PROFESSOR, or ENGINEER without the acronym sit in other rows if stored that way. Alumni who list a later private employer are not in these 523 donors unless a receipt still carried MIT.

Lincoln Laboratory and other lab letterheads, if stored as longer strings, sit outside MIT. So does ENGINEER as a title. The $7,257,813 total is the three-letter acronym only.

523 donors and 34,215 lines

523 unique donors produced 34,215 MIT contribution lines totaling $7,257,813. That is on the order of 65 itemized receipts per donor. Recurring itemized gifts can produce that ratio. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a faculty-versus-lab split. UCLA remains a separate campus acronym.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and any separate Institute-related committee filings are outside the $7,257,813. Unitemized gifts never appear.

523 unique donors produced 34,215 lines. Repeat itemized gifts dominate that ratio. The packet does not publish how many of the 523 people were on Institute payroll in any single year.

UCLA, Cornell, and engineer title rows

UCLA, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, and CORNELL UNIVERSITY are separate employer-name keys. Combining them with MIT would mix distinct campus fields. This page stays at $7,257,813 for MIT only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the acronym. ENGINEER, PROFESSOR, and STUDENT remain other industry keys when those words were placed in the employer box. INTEL CORPORATION is a company string, not a campus synonym.

Donor table

The MIT donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a research grant, a defense contract, or a motive to that line. Former employees who still type MIT share the string with current staff. The FEC field is not a registrar file.

Repeat names are expected among 34,215 lines from 523 people. Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the campus string.

MIT on a contribution line is three letters. It is not INTEL CORPORATION and not ENGINEER. The donor table’s 34,215 lines from 523 people can include lab staff, faculty, and alumni who still type the acronym. The $7,257,813 headline does not split those roles. Follow committees for party and office.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $7,257,813, 34,215 contributions, 523 donors, top employer MIT. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts. State filings are omitted.

The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare UCLA and CORNELL UNIVERSITY on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles next to this employer.

MIT is not Intel and not every engineer

The three-letter campus acronym MIT grouped $7,257,813 from 523 donors and 34,215 lines. INTEL CORPORATION is a company string. ENGINEER is a title string. People who typed MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY as a longer legal name sit in that other key if stored that way. This page does not merge those fields.

UCLA, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, CORNELL UNIVERSITY, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, and HARVARD UNIVERSITY stay on their own campus pages. STUDENT and PROFESSOR may include Institute-affiliated people who never typed MIT. Unitemized gifts and campus PAC documents stay out.

The donor table lists disclosed names and committees. LobbyVault does not attach a research grant or a defense contract to a large gift. Alumni who still type MIT remain in the 523. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS higher-education industry.

Keep MIT’s $7,257,813, 34,215 contributions, and 523 donors on this campus acronym. INTEL CORPORATION, UCLA, and CORNELL UNIVERSITY stay on their own pages. Unitemized gifts remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside the acronym. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source, not a NAICS higher-education total.

Questions

How much have MIT-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $7,257,813 to the MIT employer string, from 34,215 contributions and 523 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the Institute’s endowment and not a NAICS higher-education total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this MIT’s institutional political spending?

No. The $7,257,813 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to MIT. It is not the Institute’s treasury and not a campus PAC document. LobbyVault does not fold those categories into this industry row. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include Intel employees or all engineers?

No. INTEL CORPORATION and ENGINEER are separate strings. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text MIT. People who typed only PROFESSOR or STUDENT are in those other rows. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed MIT?

The rollup counts 523 donors and 34,215 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a faculty-plus-staff headcount from the Institute. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.