UNIVERSITY OF UTAH

A small donor set and $4,848,699

Three hundred seventy-one unique donors is a thinner roster than several peer campus strings with similar dollar totals. The dollars still reach $4,848,699 because contribution volume is high: 21,127 itemized rows, about 57 per donor as a simple ratio, with a mean gift near $230. Recurring itemized activity under one employer spelling can produce that shape without any inference about a coordinated plan.

Hospital, athletic, and research-unit names may appear as other industry keys if filers typed them instead of UNIVERSITY OF UTAH. This total does not absorb those variants. Top employer in the facts is UNIVERSITY OF UTAH, matching the industry label.

Self-report, not a state-university budget line

Utah state accounts and university treasuries are not the source of this rollup. FEC.gov records individual and committee itemized receipts where the employer/occupation string matched. Most institutional treasury gifts to federal candidates are prohibited. The $4,848,699 is the contributor-level string sum.

Occupation fields (professor, physician, student) are a separate cut. Use occupation breakdowns for titles. This page stays on the employer string.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tagged to University of Utah filers?

The UNIVERSITY OF UTAH industry cluster totals $4,848,699 in itemized FEC contributions, from 21,127 contributions and 371 donors. Filers listed that campus name as employer or occupation. It is a text rollup from FEC.gov, not a university 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.

Why so many contributions from 371 donors?

Contribution count records each itemized gift. Recurring gifts and multi-cycle activity produce 21,127 rows from 371 people, about 57 transactions per donor as a ratio. Unique-donor count remains 371 inside this employer string. 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.

Is this NAICS for public universities?

No. FEC individual contribution files do not carry NAICS. LobbyVault industries group the employer/occupation text filers wrote. UNIVERSITY OF UTAH is that text. 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 the $4,848,699 come from the University of Utah itself?

The packet facts do not attribute the total to the institution. They sum itemized amounts whose employer/occupation string matches UNIVERSITY OF UTAH: $4,848,699 from 371 donors. Contributor names are on the donor table and on FEC.gov. 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.