How much have BOSTON UNIVERSITY-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $3,593,662 to the BOSTON UNIVERSITY employer string, from 22,341 contributions and 489 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 Boston College included in this total?

No. BOSTON COLLEGE is a separate grouped string. The $3.6M total is only receipts whose employer text grouped to BOSTON UNIVERSITY. LobbyVault does not merge sibling Boston campuses into this row. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Does the BU acronym sit inside this row?

Only if those receipts grouped to BOSTON UNIVERSITY. BU as an acronym is a separate grouped key if filers used it. A receipt counted here carries the two-word campus stamp. Staff who typed only PROFESSOR 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 BOSTON UNIVERSITY?

The rollup counts 489 donors and 22,341 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.

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BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Total Donated

$3,593,662

Contributions

22,341

Unique Donors

489

Top Employer

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Filers who listed BOSTON UNIVERSITY on federal campaign reports account for $3.6M ($3,593,662) in itemized receipts on FEC.gov. The cluster holds 22,341 contributions and 489 donors. BOSTON UNIVERSITY is the private-campus employer string as typed, not a NAICS colleges-and-universities total, not the university’s PAC, and not BOSTON COLLEGE, BU, or NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY as sibling Boston-campus keys.

Key figures

BOSTON UNIVERSITY as FEC employer text totals $3.6M ($3,593,662) from 489 donors.
22,341 contribution lines sit under that two-word campus stamp.
BOSTON COLLEGE and the BU acronym are separate FEC keys.
The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS industry or campus PAC total.

Two-word campus stamp, not a Boston-higher-ed recode

Four hundred eighty-nine unique donors produced 22,341 contributions totaling $3,593,662. About 46 itemized gifts per person and a mean gift near $161 describe the arithmetic — one of the thicker receipt patterns in this packet wave. BOSTON COLLEGE, BU as an acronym, BOSTON UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, and HARVARD UNIVERSITY can exist as other keys. They are not inside $3,593,662 unless they grouped to BOSTON UNIVERSITY.

Top employer matches BOSTON UNIVERSITY. The FEC field records what was typed, not a registrar legal name. LobbyVault does not recode BOSTON COLLEGE or BU into this two-word stamp. Researchers who want a combined Boston-private-campus family must recode after export. The 22,341-line count is consistent with repeat itemized gifts under a campus payroll stamp.

489 donors and 22,341 lines

22,341 lines from 489 people is a very thick receipt pattern. Mean per donor is about $7,349. Repeat payroll deductions can inflate contribution counts without raising unique donors. The packet does not publish a faculty-versus-staff split, a medical-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 $3,593,662 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts only.

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Questions

How much have BOSTON UNIVERSITY-listed donors given federally?: LobbyVault attributes $3,593,662 to the BOSTON UNIVERSITY employer string, from 22,341 contributions and 489 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 Boston College included in this total?: No. BOSTON COLLEGE is a separate grouped string. The $3.6M total is only receipts whose employer text grouped to BOSTON UNIVERSITY. LobbyVault does not merge sibling Boston campuses into this row. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault.
Does the BU acronym sit inside this row?: Only if those receipts grouped to BOSTON UNIVERSITY. BU as an acronym is a separate grouped key if filers used it. A receipt counted here carries the two-word campus stamp. Staff who typed only PROFESSOR 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 BOSTON UNIVERSITY?: The rollup counts 489 donors and 22,341 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.

Cycle-over-Cycle Trend

2018 · $329,749 2016 · $249,238 2008 · $187,745 2012 · $186,391 2014 · $123,368 2004 · $100,954 2010 · $81,490 2006 · $38,534 2000 · $37,842 1996 · $37,155

BOSTON UNIVERSITY political contributions by election cycle.
Cycle	Total	Contributions	Donors
1980	$5,250	7	6
1982	$2,050	3	2
1984	$6,000	7	3
1986	$8,000	9	4
1988	$12,500	17	11
1990	$7,185	16	11
1992	$21,525	52	22
1994	$24,275	39	27
1996	$37,155	60	35
1998	$30,925	49	22
2000	$37,842	51	30
2002	$37,090	62	20
2004	$100,954	146	68
2006	$38,534	60	32
2008	$187,745	286	118
2010	$81,490	136	65
2012	$186,391	391	114
2014	$123,368	288	61
2016	$249,238	2,054	90
2018	$329,749	2,303	81

Top Donors

Top BOSTON UNIVERSITY donors ranked by total donated.
#	Name	Total	Contributions	City / State	Occupation	History
1	ESCH, ROBIN	$55,664	140	CONCORD, MA	RETIRED	2004–2014
2	WESTLING, JON	$34,750	51	LEXINGTON, MA	—	1986–2002
3	SILBER, JOHN	$28,150	38	BROOKLINE, MA	—	1990–2012
4	WEISS, ANDREW MR.	$27,750	3	BROOKLINE, MA	PROFESSOR OF ECONOMICS	2004–2014
5	ROSENBERG, LYNN A MS.	$27,500	29	BROOKLINE, MA	EPIDEMIOLOGIST	2004–2014
6	TAUBER, ALFRED J	$27,500	2	BOSCAWEN, NH	PROFESSOR	2008–2012
7	FRASER, DONALD C	$21,000	11	BOSTON, MA	—	1998–2008
8	SHULMAN, LAWRENCE	$20,800	55	BOSTON, MA	—	1992–2014
9	DUPRE, DENISE	$17,500	9	WEST NEWTON, MA	—	1996–2014
10	KLEIN, ADAM	$17,200	36	BEVERLY HILLS, CA	—	2000–2014
11	HATCH, ELIZABETH	$15,750	14	IPSWICH, MA	EPIDEMIOLOGIST	2004–2012
12	JAFFE, CONRADE	$15,608	57	CHARLESTOWN, MA	TEACHER	2010–2014
13	SANDSON, JOHN I	$15,425	26	BOSTON, MA	—	1980–1996
14	MCPHERSON, BRUCE	$14,739	26	CAMBRIDGE, MA	—	1980–2012
15	GILES, ROSCOE	$14,500	33	JAMAICA PLAIN, MA	PROFESSOR	2008–2012
16	YOUNG, DAVID W	$14,160	35	ARLINGTON, MA	—	1988–2014
17	DELLHEIM, CHARLES	$13,000	31	NEWTON CENTRE, MA	PROFESSOR	2008–2014
18	HILLMAN, CAROL	$12,800	19	FRAMINGHAM, MA	—	1996–2012
19	SKOCPOL, WILLIAM	$12,271	30	CAMBRIDGE, MA	PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS	2004–2014
20	KAPER, TASSO J	$11,850	13	BEVERLY, MA	PROFESSOR	2004–2014
21	MANOVE, MICHAEL	$11,800	20	BOSTON, MA	—	2002–2014
22	SULAK, LAWRENCE RICHARD	$10,900	5	BROOKLINE, MA	PHYSICIST	2008–2012
23	BEATTY, JEFFREY	$10,760	8	BELMONT, MA	PROFESSOR	2004–2010
24	FRIEDMAN, PAULA	$10,750	18	BROOKLINE, MA	—	1994–2014
25	DEWINTER, TED	$10,200	10	GREENVILLE, NH	—	1996–2010
26	PESARESI, MICHELLE	$10,000	1	NEWTON, MA	STUDENT	2008
27	EPSTEIN, LESLIE	$9,800	6	BROOKLINE, MA	PROFESSOR/WRITER	2008–2014
28	EDMONDS, DEAN S JR	$9,725	11	WESTON, MA	—	1980–2012
29	GROSSBERG, STEPHEN	$9,700	38	NEWTON HIGHLANDS, MA	—	1992–2014
30	LUCKEN, KRISTEN R MRS.	$9,600	4	NEWTON, MA	PH.D. STUDENT	2008–2012
31	MERKEL, PETER	$9,300	6	WEST NEWTON, MA	PHYSICIAN	2004–2012
32	SALANT, DAVID J	$8,475	16	NEWTON, MA	—	2002–2012
33	MCANENY, DAVID B	$8,200	11	BOSTON, MA	SURGEON	2004–2014
34	SKOCPOL, WILLIAM J	$8,050	20	CAMBRIDGE, MA	—	1996–2014
35	HOLT, CHRISTINA	$6,800	7	CAMBRIDGE, MA	PHYSICIAN	2004–2012
36	ROSENBERG, LYNN A	$6,610	19	BROOKLINE, MA	EPIDEMIOLOGIST	2004–2014
37	HENDERSON, JEFFREY	$6,317	13	BOSTON, MA	PROFESSOR	2004–2014
38	DAVIDSON, OLGA M	$6,200	3	BOSTON, MA	PROFESSOR	2010
39	MEENAN, ROBERT F	$6,000	18	NEWTON, MA	—	1992–2014
40	YANAI, ITAI	$6,000	7	FRAMINGHAM, MA	—	1994–2008
41	LOECHLER, EDWARD	$5,750	18	BROOKLINE, MA	PROFESSOR	2006–2014
42	LAWSON, MICHAEL E	$5,750	16	CONCORD, MA	PROFESSOR	2008–2014
43	EDMONDS, DEAN S DR JR	$5,750	8	NAPLES, FL	PROFESSOR OF PHYSICS	2008–2014
44	BAUM, MICHAEL J	$5,732	13	BROOKLINE, MA	—	1992–2000
45	ALLAIRE, SARALYNN	$5,609	15	CHESTNUT HILL, MA	PROFESSOR	2008–2016
46	TRACKMAN, PHILIP	$5,300	8	NEWTON, MA	PROFESSOR	2008–2014
47	SEBASTIANI, PAOLA	$5,250	10	BOSTON, MA	PROFESSOR	2012
48	COCKBURN, IAIN	$5,100	7	CAMBRIDGE, MA	PROFESSOR	2008–2012
49	ROTHSTEIN, THOMAS	$5,055	14	NEWTON, MA	PHYSICIAN-SCIENTIST	2004–2014
50	AHLEN, STEVEN P	$5,050	11	BROOKLINE, MA	—	1992–2016

Top Recipients

Top political committees that received BOSTON UNIVERSITY donations.
#	Committee	Total	Contributions
1	ACTBLUEC00401224	$587,656	1,003
2	EMILYS LISTC00193433	$221,760	131
3	OBAMA FOR AMERICAC00431445	$133,725	810
4	DSCCC00042366	$89,102	722
5	FORWARD MAJORITY ACTIONC00631549	$75,519	15
6	DNC SERVICES CORP / DEMOCRATIC NATIONAL COMMITTEEC00010603	$75,070	815
7	FIGHT FOR THE PEOPLE PACC00703975	$72,581	603
8	BILL FOSTER FOR CONGRESSC00435099	$70,147	172
9	DCCCC00000935	$53,724	434
10	PRIORITIES USA ACTIONC00495861	$50,500	25
11	FORWARD MAJORITY ACTIONC00631556	$50,000	9
12	OBAMA VICTORY FUNDC00451393	$44,372	137
13	HARRIS VICTORY FUNDC00744946	$40,628	301
14	OBAMA VICTORY FUND 2012C00494740	$38,798	405
15	WARREN FOR SENATE, INC.C00500843	$34,987	531
16	HILLARY FOR AMERICAC00575795	$32,300	300
17	JOHN KERRY FOR PRESIDENT INCC00383653	$27,250	507
18	KERRY VICTORY 2004C00398198	$26,200	15
19	HILLARY VICTORY FUNDC00586537	$23,459	244
20	WINREDC00694323	$22,002	225
21	REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEEC00003418	$20,037	77
22	KUSTER FOR CONGRESS, INCC00462861	$19,750	82
23	MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN PACC00580100	$19,019	63
24	LEONARDO DRS PACC00275123	$19,000	11
25	NRSCC00027466	$17,201	51