How much have University of Pennsylvania filers given federally?

The UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA industry cluster totals $4,780,435 in itemized FEC contributions, from 23,844 contributions and 751 donors. Filers listed that full campus name as employer or occupation. It is a text rollup, not an institutional budget line. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

Does this include people who wrote Penn or UPenn?

Not unless those spellings were ingested as the same key. This page’s $4,780,435 is the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA string. Check all industries for abbreviated campus labels stored separately. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

How many unique donors are in this cluster?

LobbyVault counts 751 donors and 23,844 contributions. Unique-donor count is matching disclosure text, not a count of faculty, staff, or alumni. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

Is this NAICS for private universities?

No. FEC individual files do not carry NAICS. LobbyVault industries group employer/occupation self-reports. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA is the typed string. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

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University of Pennsylvania money in federal elections

Filers who listed UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA as employer or occupation on federal campaign reports account for $4,780,435 in itemized receipts on FEC.gov. The cluster contains 23,844 contributions and 751 donors—more unique people than several peer campus strings with similar dollars. Mean gift size is about $200; mean per donor is about $6,365. The school name is FEC text, not a NAICS education code.

Key figures

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA FEC strings sum to $4,780,435.
23,844 contributions came from 751 donors.
About $200 per gift and $6,365 per donor on a simple mean.
Penn and UPenn abbreviations are not assumed to be in this total.
The label is FEC free text, not NAICS.

A wider donor roster at $4,780,435

Seven hundred fifty-one donors produced 23,844 contributions, about 32 itemized gifts per person. That is a broader unique-person base than campus clusters that concentrate dollars in a few hundred filers. $4,780,435 ÷ 751 ≈ $6,365 per donor, lower than some peer universities in this same packet wave because the denominator is larger.

Penn Medicine, Wharton, or a hospital legal name can file as different industry keys. This total is UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA only. Top employer matches that full string.

Why “Penn” is not this slug

Filers who wrote Penn, UPenn, or U. of Pennsylvania sit in other keys if ingest kept the spellings separate. Searchers should not assume $4,780,435 is every Philadelphia-campus affiliation on FEC.gov. It is one employer/occupation string in LobbyVault’s industry index.

Occupation breakdowns still matter for titles (professor, physician, student) that co-occur with this employer text. The industry page does not recode those titles into NAICS.

Twenty-three thousand rows

Each of the 23,844 contributions is an itemized federal transaction. Repeat PAC gifts and multi-cycle activity add rows without adding donors. The packet has no year field, so this guide does not assign the dollars to a cycle.

Committee types and recipients are on FEC.gov line items and on the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA donor table, not in the four packet facts.

What the table is not

It is not the university’s treasury, not a student-government poll, and not lobbying disclosure. $4,780,435 is the itemized sum tagged to this self-reported campus string.

All industries lists other school names. Occupation breakdowns list titles. The donor table lists people.

Source

Industry UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA; $4,780,435; 23,844 contributions; 751 donors; top employer UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Use the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA donor table for the 751 unique donors and 23,844 itemized contributions behind $4,780,435. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Penn, UPenn, Penn Medicine, and Wharton can be other keys. Occupation breakdowns list professor, physician, and student titles. All industries is the place to find abbreviated campus labels stored separately. Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. The unique-person roster is wider than several peer campus strings with similar dollars, which lowers the per-donor mean to about $6,365. Mean gift size about $200 is total divided by 23,844 contributions. Pennsylvania state filings are a different system. This guide does not assign $4,780,435 to a cycle year. Refunds can move the snapshot. Adding unknown Penn abbreviations would invent a combined campus total. The 751-donor count is matching text, not a count of faculty, staff, or alumni. Cite the full campus spelling only.

Full campus spelling versus Penn abbreviations

UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA keyed $4,780,435 from 23,844 contributions and 751 donors. The unique-person roster is wider than several peer campus strings with similar dollars, which lowers the per-donor mean to about $6,365. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Penn, UPenn, Penn Medicine, and Wharton can be other keys. The 751 unique donors are matching text, not a count of faculty, staff, or alumni. Pennsylvania state filings are a different system. Top employer matches the full campus string.

Open the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA donor table for names and committees. All industries is the place to find abbreviated campus labels stored separately. Occupation breakdowns list professor, physician, and student titles. Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. This guide does not assign $4,780,435 to a cycle year. Refunds can move the snapshot. The four facts stay $4,780,435, 23,844 contributions, 751 donors, and top employer UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Adding unknown Penn abbreviations would invent a combined campus total. Repeat the four facts when citing this page: $4,780,435, 23,844 contributions, 751 donors, top employer UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA. Unitemized gifts remain omitted. The donor table, all industries, and occupation breakdowns are the only internal links this packet authorizes. Abbreviated Penn keys stay on other slugs. Mean gift size about $200 remains total divided by 23,844 contributions. Top employer matches UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA on FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Questions

How much have University of Pennsylvania filers given federally?: The UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA industry cluster totals $4,780,435 in itemized FEC contributions, from 23,844 contributions and 751 donors. Filers listed that full campus name as employer or occupation. It is a text rollup, not an institutional budget line. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.
Does this include people who wrote Penn or UPenn?: Not unless those spellings were ingested as the same key. This page’s $4,780,435 is the UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA string. Check all industries for abbreviated campus labels stored separately. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.
How many unique donors are in this cluster?: LobbyVault counts 751 donors and 23,844 contributions. Unique-donor count is matching disclosure text, not a count of faculty, staff, or alumni. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.
Is this NAICS for private universities?: No. FEC individual files do not carry NAICS. LobbyVault industries group employer/occupation self-reports. UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA is the typed string. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

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