Yale University money in federal elections

642 donors and $4,982,646

Six hundred forty-two unique donors produced $4,982,646, about $7,761 each if the total is divided evenly. Twenty-three thousand four hundred thirty-seven contributions against 642 people is about 37 itemized gifts per donor. Mean contribution size is about $213. Those three derived ratios use only the packet’s total, contribution count, and donor count.

Campus employer strings mix faculty, staff, hospital affiliates, and people who list a school after they leave. The FEC form does not timestamp employment against payroll. The 642-donor figure is therefore a count of matching disclosure text, not a faculty census and not a count of current Yale employees.

Free-text employer fields on FEC.gov

Individual contribution records on FEC.gov include employer and occupation as uncoded strings. YALE UNIVERSITY is one such string. Yale School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven, or a department abbreviation can file as different industry slugs if ingest keeps them separate. This page’s $4,982,646 belongs only to the YALE UNIVERSITY key.

Occupation pages cut the same universe by job title. A professor who wrote Yale in the employer box can appear in both views. This industry page does not merge those cuts; it reports the employer-string aggregate alone.

Row volume at 23,437 contributions

Contribution count counts transactions, not people. PAC deductions, several candidates, and several cycles all add rows. The packet does not disclose how many of the 23,437 rows are earmarked, refunded, or redesignated. For that, read the filings on FEC.gov and the YALE UNIVERSITY donor table.

This guide does not name election years because the packet facts do not include years. Dollar and count totals are snapshot aggregates from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

What not to infer

Do not treat $4,982,646 as a university PAC, a lobbying total, or a measure of student political activity. The public record here is itemized federal receipts tagged to one employer/occupation string. Motive and policy preference are not in the facts.

Peer campus strings live under all industries. Job titles live under occupation breakdowns. Line items live on the YALE UNIVERSITY donor table.

Source

Industry YALE UNIVERSITY; total $4,982,646; 23,437 contributions; 642 donors; top employer YALE UNIVERSITY. Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

The YALE UNIVERSITY donor table is the name-level overlay for the 642 unique donors and 23,437 itemized contributions that sum to $4,982,646. Unitemized gifts, Connecticut state committees, and hospital or school-name variants stored as other keys stay outside that figure. Occupation breakdowns cut by professor, physician, and student when those titles were filed. All industries places this campus string beside other universities. Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. This guide does not assign the dollars to an election year because the packet has no year field. Mean gift size about $213 and about 37 itemized gifts per donor are arithmetic only. Refunds and employer recodes can move historical amounts. Cite $4,982,646 only for the YALE UNIVERSITY key. Do not fold unnamed Yale-New Haven strings into this total without a documented recode. The 642-donor count is not a faculty roster.

What itemization leaves out of the campus total

YALE UNIVERSITY itemized federal receipts sum to $4,982,646 from 23,437 contributions and 642 donors. Unitemized gifts, Connecticut state committees, and hospital or school-name variants are outside that figure. A filer who wrote Yale School of Medicine or Yale-New Haven as a different key is not folded in. The 642 unique donors are a matching count, not a faculty roster. Mean gift size about $213 and about 37 itemized gifts per donor are arithmetic on the packet facts. They do not measure endowment spending or student activity fees.

Open the YALE UNIVERSITY donor table for disclosed names and committees. Use all industries to place this campus string beside other universities. Use occupation breakdowns for professor, physician, and student titles. Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. This page does not assign $4,982,646 to an election year because the packet has no year field. Refunds and employer recodes on FEC.gov can move the snapshot. The four facts stay $4,982,646, 23,437 contributions, 642 donors, and top employer YALE UNIVERSITY.

Questions

How much have Yale University filers given in federal races?

The YALE UNIVERSITY industry cluster totals $4,982,646 in itemized contributions on FEC.gov, across 23,437 contributions from 642 donors. Those filers listed YALE UNIVERSITY as employer or occupation. The figure is a text rollup, not an institutional expenditure. 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 Yale-labeled donors are there?

LobbyVault counts 642 donors in this cluster. They produced 23,437 contributions. Donor count is unique people whose disclosed employer/occupation text matched YALE UNIVERSITY, not a count of faculty or staff on payroll. 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 higher education?

No. FEC individual files do not carry NAICS. LobbyVault industry pages group the employer string filers typed. YALE UNIVERSITY is that string. Related campus or hospital names may appear as other slugs. 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 the $4,982,646 include Yale’s endowment or treasury?

The packet facts do not include endowment or treasury figures. They sum itemized federal contribution amounts tagged to the YALE UNIVERSITY employer/occupation string. Contributor identity is on each FEC row, visible via the donor table. 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.