UCLA

An acronym, not the UC system

Faculty, staff, medical-center employees, and others type UCLA in the employer box. LobbyVault ranks that grouped text. The $7,408,907 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not the UC Office of the President, not UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA as a longer string, and not a NAICS colleges rollup.

People who typed UCLA MEDICAL CENTER, UC LOS ANGELES, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, STUDENT, or PROFESSOR without the acronym sit in other rows if stored that way. Alumni who list a later private employer are not in these 863 donors unless a receipt still carried UCLA.

Medical-center staff who typed a hospital dba instead of UCLA are absent from these 863 donors on those receipts. The acronym is convenient and incomplete. LobbyVault does not expand it into the University of California system.

863 donors and 41,075 lines

863 unique donors produced 41,075 UCLA contribution lines totaling $7,408,907. That is on the order of 48 itemized receipts per donor — dense relative to many firm-name rows with similar dollars. Recurring itemized gifts can produce that ratio. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a split among campus, hospital, and extension payrolls.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and any separate campus-related committee filings are outside the $7,408,907. Unitemized gifts never appear.

41,075 lines from 863 people means many repeat itemized gifts. The packet does not say which share came from faculty, staff, or medical-center payrolls. Do not invent that split.

Questions

How much have UCLA-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $7,408,907 to the UCLA employer string, from 41,075 contributions and 863 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the campus 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 UCLA’s institutional political spending?

No. The $7,408,907 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to UCLA. 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 Stanford, MIT, or all UC campuses?

No. STANFORD UNIVERSITY, MIT, and longer UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA strings are separate keys. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text UCLA. People who typed only STUDENT or PROFESSOR 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 UCLA?

The rollup counts 863 donors and 41,075 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a faculty-plus-staff headcount from the campus. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.