UCLA as FEC employer text: $7.4 million

An acronym, not the UC system

Faculty, staff, medical-center employees, and others type UCLA in the employer box. LobbyVault ranks that grouped text. The $7,408,907 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not the UC Office of the President, not UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA as a longer string, and not a NAICS colleges rollup.

People who typed UCLA MEDICAL CENTER, UC LOS ANGELES, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, STUDENT, or PROFESSOR without the acronym sit in other rows if stored that way. Alumni who list a later private employer are not in these 863 donors unless a receipt still carried UCLA.

Medical-center staff who typed a hospital dba instead of UCLA are absent from these 863 donors on those receipts. The acronym is convenient and incomplete. LobbyVault does not expand it into the University of California system.

863 donors and 41,075 lines

863 unique donors produced 41,075 UCLA contribution lines totaling $7,408,907. That is on the order of 48 itemized receipts per donor — dense relative to many firm-name rows with similar dollars. Recurring itemized gifts can produce that ratio. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a split among campus, hospital, and extension payrolls.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and any separate campus-related committee filings are outside the $7,408,907. Unitemized gifts never appear.

41,075 lines from 863 people means many repeat itemized gifts. The packet does not say which share came from faculty, staff, or medical-center payrolls. Do not invent that split.

Other campus strings in the same index

STANFORD UNIVERSITY, HARVARD UNIVERSITY, MIT, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, and CORNELL UNIVERSITY are separate employer-name keys. Combining them with UCLA would be a researcher-built higher-education recode. This page stays at $7,408,907 for UCLA only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the acronym. STUDENT, PROFESSOR, PHYSICIAN, and MD remain other industry keys when those words were placed in the employer box.

Donor table

The UCLA 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 federal contract, or a motive to that line. Former employees who still type UCLA share the string with current staff. The FEC field is not a registrar or HR export.

Repeat names are expected among 41,075 lines from 863 people. Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the campus string.

Campus acronym pages reward careful reading of the donor table. Two people with similar titles may have typed UCLA on one receipt and UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA on another. Only the UCLA-grouped lines sit in the $7,408,907. The 41,075 contribution count is those lines, not a registrar export of 863 employees.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $7,408,907, 41,075 contributions, 863 donors, top employer UCLA. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts. State filings are omitted.

The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare other campus-name rows on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles next to this employer.

Acronym coverage and what the $7,408,907 omits

UCLA as three letters is shorter than UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES or UCLA MEDICAL CENTER. Those longer strings, if stored, are other keys. The $7,408,907 total from 863 donors and 41,075 lines is only the acronym grouping. It is not the UC system and not endowment value.

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

The donor table lists disclosed names and committees. LobbyVault does not attach a research grant to a large gift. Alumni who still type UCLA remain in the 863. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS higher-education industry.

Keep UCLA’s $7,408,907, 41,075 contributions, and 863 donors on this campus acronym. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, MIT, and UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN 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 UCLA-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $7,408,907 to the UCLA employer string, from 41,075 contributions and 863 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the campus 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 UCLA’s institutional political spending?

No. The $7,408,907 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to UCLA. It is not the university’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 Stanford, MIT, or all UC campuses?

No. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, MIT, and longer UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA strings are separate keys. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text UCLA. People who typed only STUDENT or PROFESSOR 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 UCLA?

The rollup counts 863 donors and 41,075 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a faculty-plus-staff headcount from the campus. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.