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UNIVERSITY OF IOWA money in federal elections

Contributors who listed UNIVERSITY OF IOWA on federal itemized receipts account for $3.7M ($3,693,312), according to FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The cluster is 16,544 contributions from 463 donors. UNIVERSITY OF IOWA is a public-campus employer string as typed, not a NAICS colleges-and-universities total, not the university’s PAC, and not UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS or IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY as sibling campus keys.

Key figures

  • UNIVERSITY OF IOWA as FEC employer text totals $3.7M ($3,693,312) from 463 donors.
  • 16,544 contribution lines sit under that public-campus string.
  • IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY and UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS are separate FEC keys.
  • The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS industry or campus PAC total.

Campus name as stored, not a higher-ed recode

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. UNIVERSITY OF IOWA is the campus as committees stored it on individual receipts. The $3,693,312 total is those itemized gifts. It is not tuition revenue, not a Big Ten athletic budget, and not a NAICS educational-services category covering every Iowa public campus.

People who typed U OF IOWA, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS, UIHC, IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY, or PROFESSOR without the campus sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not collapse those spellings into this key. Researchers who want a combined Iowa-system family must recode after export. Top employer matches UNIVERSITY OF IOWA.

463 donors and 16,544 lines

463 unique donors produced 16,544 UNIVERSITY OF IOWA contribution lines totaling $3,693,312. That is on the order of 36 itemized receipts per donor and a mean gift near $223. Mean per donor is about $7,977. The packet does not publish a faculty-versus-staff split, a hospitals-versus-main-campus cut, or a cycle year.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and any campus-affiliated committee PAC filings are outside the $3,693,312 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Coverage is federal itemized individual receipts only.

Iowa State and UIHC stay on other pages

IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY, UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS, and PROFESSOR are separate employer-name or title keys. Combining them with UNIVERSITY OF IOWA would mix a campus, a medical-center suffix, a sibling public university, and a job title. This page stays at $3,693,312 for UNIVERSITY OF IOWA only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the campus. PROFESSOR, PHYSICIAN, and STUDENT exist as industry keys when donors put the function in the employer box instead of UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. State filings are omitted from the $3,693,312.

Donor table without campus inference

The UNIVERSITY OF IOWA donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a college, a hospital privilege, or a motive to that line. Alumni, retirees, and current staff who type the campus share the string. The FEC field is not a registrar file and not an HR roster.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the campus string. Repeat names among 16,544 lines from 463 people are expected. People who typed IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY are not in these 463 unless a receipt also grouped to UNIVERSITY OF IOWA.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $3,693,312, 16,544 contributions, 463 donors, top employer UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts. State filings are omitted.

The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Open IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY as a sibling campus page. Use occupation breakdowns for titles stored next to this employer. About 36 itemized gifts per person and a mean gift near $223 are arithmetic on the packet.

Iowa City campus string versus Iowa State and UIHC

UNIVERSITY OF IOWA keyed $3.7M from 16,544 contributions and 463 donors. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY and UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS remain other keys. The 463 unique donors are matching text, not a headcount of faculty plus staff. Occupation breakdowns list titles stored beside the campus.

Keep $3,693,312, 16,544 contributions, and 463 donors on this campus spelling. U OF IOWA and UIHC stay on their own pages unless they grouped here. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. Unitemized gifts remain omitted.

Read $3,693,312 as the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA cluster only. About 36 gifts per person, a mean gift near $223, and about $7,977 per donor are packet arithmetic. A thick receipt file is consistent with repeat itemized gifts; the packet does not publish a hospitals-versus-main-campus split. Unitemized gifts and committee PAC filings sit outside the $3.7M unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string.

LobbyVault does not recode Iowa State or UIHC into this campus key. The FEC field is not a NAICS colleges-and-universities total. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Open the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA donor table for line-level detail. All industries lists other campus-employer strings without merging them here.

Questions

How much have UNIVERSITY OF IOWA-listed donors given federally?
LobbyVault attributes $3,693,312 to the UNIVERSITY OF IOWA employer string, from 16,544 contributions and 463 donors. These are itemized individual receipts on FEC.gov, not a campus PAC and not a NAICS colleges-and-universities total. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
Is Iowa State included in this total?
No. IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY is a separate grouped string. The $3.7M total is only receipts whose employer text grouped to UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. LobbyVault does not merge sibling public campuses into this row. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault.
Does this include University of Iowa Hospitals staff?
Only if the grouped employer text is UNIVERSITY OF IOWA. UNIVERSITY OF IOWA HOSPITALS and UIHC are separate keys if stored that way. A receipt counted here carries the campus string as grouped. Staff who typed only PHYSICIAN sit in that title row instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
How many unique donors listed UNIVERSITY OF IOWA?
The rollup counts 463 donors and 16,544 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not an employee headcount of the university. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.