MIT

Three letters that are not a tech-industry code

Faculty, staff, lab employees, and others type MIT in the employer box. LobbyVault ranks that grouped text. The $7,257,813 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not Massachusetts Institute of Technology spelled out if stored as a longer string, not INTEL CORPORATION, and not a NAICS colleges rollup.

People who typed MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, MIT LINCOLN LABORATORY, STUDENT, PROFESSOR, or ENGINEER without the acronym sit in other rows if stored that way. Alumni who list a later private employer are not in these 523 donors unless a receipt still carried MIT.

Lincoln Laboratory and other lab letterheads, if stored as longer strings, sit outside MIT. So does ENGINEER as a title. The $7,257,813 total is the three-letter acronym only.

523 donors and 34,215 lines

523 unique donors produced 34,215 MIT contribution lines totaling $7,257,813. That is on the order of 65 itemized receipts per donor. Recurring itemized gifts can produce that ratio. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a faculty-versus-lab split. UCLA remains a separate campus acronym.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and any separate Institute-related committee filings are outside the $7,257,813. Unitemized gifts never appear.

523 unique donors produced 34,215 lines. Repeat itemized gifts dominate that ratio. The packet does not publish how many of the 523 people were on Institute payroll in any single year.

Questions

How much have MIT-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $7,257,813 to the MIT employer string, from 34,215 contributions and 523 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the Institute’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 MIT’s institutional political spending?

No. The $7,257,813 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to MIT. It is not the Institute’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 Intel employees or all engineers?

No. INTEL CORPORATION and ENGINEER are separate strings. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text MIT. People who typed only PROFESSOR or STUDENT 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 MIT?

The rollup counts 523 donors and 34,215 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a faculty-plus-staff headcount from the Institute. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.