CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Total Donated
$5,990,437
Contributions
21,866
Unique Donors
540
Top Employer
CORNELL UNIVERSITY
Contributors who listed CORNELL UNIVERSITY on federal itemized receipts account for $5,990,437, according to FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The cluster is 21,866 contributions from 540 donors. CORNELL UNIVERSITY is a campus legal name as typed, not a NAICS higher-education total, not Weill Cornell as a separate string if stored that way, and not the university’s endowment. UCLA, MIT, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, STANFORD UNIVERSITY, and HARVARD UNIVERSITY are sibling campus keys.
Key figures
- CORNELL UNIVERSITY as FEC employer text totals $5,990,437 from 540 donors.
- 21,866 contribution lines sit under that campus string.
- UCLA, MIT, and UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN are separate FEC keys.
- The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS higher-education industry.
Ithaca spelled as a university, not Cornell Tech alone
Faculty, staff, medical-college employees, and others type CORNELL UNIVERSITY in the employer box. LobbyVault ranks that grouped text. The $5,990,437 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not CORNELL without UNIVERSITY, not WEILL CORNELL, and not a NAICS colleges rollup.
People who typed CORNELL, CORNELL TECH, WEILL CORNELL MEDICINE, STUDENT, or PROFESSOR without the full campus name sit in other rows if stored that way. Alumni who list a later private employer are not in these 540 donors unless a receipt still carried CORNELL UNIVERSITY.
Ithaca campus and medical-college staff share CORNELL UNIVERSITY when they type the full name. Weill-only letterheads, if stored separately, sit elsewhere. The $5,990,437 total is the campus legal name only.
540 donors and 21,866 lines
540 unique donors produced 21,866 CORNELL UNIVERSITY contribution lines totaling $5,990,437. That is on the order of 40 itemized receipts per donor. MIT remains a separate three-letter campus acronym. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a campus-versus-medical-college split.
Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and any separate university-related committee filings are outside the $5,990,437. Unitemized gifts never appear.
540 unique donors produced 21,866 lines. Repeat itemized gifts explain the ratio. The packet does not publish a medical-college share of those 540 people.
Full analysis: CORNELL UNIVERSITY as FEC employer text: $6.0 million →
Questions
- How much have CORNELL UNIVERSITY-listed donors given federally?
- LobbyVault attributes $5,990,437 to the CORNELL UNIVERSITY employer string, from 21,866 contributions and 540 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the university’s 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 Cornell’s institutional political spending?
- No. The $5,990,437 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to CORNELL UNIVERSITY. 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 MIT, UCLA, or all students?
- No. MIT, UCLA, and STUDENT are separate strings. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text CORNELL UNIVERSITY. People who typed only PROFESSOR or PHYSICIAN 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 CORNELL UNIVERSITY?
- The rollup counts 540 donors and 21,866 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a faculty-plus-staff headcount from 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.