PRINCETON UNIVERSITY

517 people, 22,265 itemized gifts

Twenty-two thousand two hundred sixty-five contributions from 517 donors implies about 43 disclosed transactions per person. That ratio matches other large campus strings where recurring itemized gifts accumulate under one employer spelling. It does not prove a university-run program. Each row is a contributor’s FEC disclosure with PRINCETON UNIVERSITY in the employer or occupation box.

$4,949,026 is the sum of those itemized amounts. The packet does not break out faculty versus staff, undergraduates versus alumni, or Princeton Plasma Physics versus the main campus. Those distinctions would require reading occupation text and addresses on the donor table, not this four-number rollup.

Campus names as FEC “industries”

The Commission’s individual files do not classify employers into education NAICS codes. Contributors type a school name. LobbyVault ranks those strings. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY is both the industry label and the top employer in the facts, so the bucket is that exact campus phrasing.

Abbreviations (Princeton, PU) and unit names can appear as other slugs. Do not assume this $4,949,026 captures every filer with a Princeton affiliation. It captures the matching string.

Questions

How much federal political money is tied to Princeton University filers?

The PRINCETON UNIVERSITY cluster totals $4,949,026 in itemized FEC contributions, from 22,265 contributions and 517 donors. Filers listed that employer or occupation string. It is a self-report 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 Princeton-labeled donors are in this data?

LobbyVault counts 517 donors producing 22,265 contributions. Unique-donor count is people whose text matched PRINCETON UNIVERSITY, not a payroll headcount of the university. 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.

Why is a university listed as an industry?

LobbyVault industries are FEC employer/occupation self-reports. Universities, banks, and job titles share the same index because FEC.gov does not attach NAICS to those fields. PRINCETON UNIVERSITY is the typed campus name. 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 every Princeton-affiliated spelling?

No. This total is the PRINCETON UNIVERSITY key only: $4,949,026. Other abbreviations or unit names, if stored as separate keys, are other industry pages. Check all industries for neighboring strings. 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.