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UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Total Donated

$8,069,612

Contributions

37,390

Unique Donors

943

Top Employer

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON

Contributors who listed UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON on federal itemized receipts account for $8,069,612, according to FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The cluster is 37,390 contributions from 943 donors. UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON is a public-university name as typed, not a NAICS higher-education total, not the university’s endowment, and not a campus PAC. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, and HARVARD UNIVERSITY are sibling school-name rows. Packet facts for this page are $8,069,612, 37,390 contributions, and 943 donors, with top employer UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Unitemized gifts never appear in that total. LobbyVault indexes FEC.gov individual receipts, not the UW abbreviation and not NAICS colleges and universities.

Key figures

  • UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON as FEC employer text totals $8,069,612 from 943 donors.
  • 37,390 contribution lines sit under that public-university name.
  • UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA and COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY are separate FEC keys.
  • The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS higher-education sector.

A Pacific Northwest campus name on Schedule A

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. Faculty, staff, medical-center affiliates, and others type UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON rather than UW, Harborview, or a college legal name. The $8,069,612 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not UW’s operating budget, not tuition, and not a NAICS 6113 rollup of all colleges.

People who typed UW, UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON MEDICAL CENTER, STATE OF WASHINGTON, TEACHER, or PROFESSOR without the university name sit in other rows. Alumni who list a later private employer are not in these 943 donors unless a receipt still carried UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON.

943 donors and 37,390 lines

943 unique donors produced 37,390 UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON contribution lines totaling $8,069,612. That is on the order of 40 itemized receipts per donor. Line volume sits in the same paperwork neighborhood as other large public-university strings, still as a separate stored key. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and campus PAC filings are outside the $8,069,612 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Repeat names among 37,390 lines are expected.

Full analysis: UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON as FEC employer text: $8.1 million

Questions

How much have UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON-listed donors given federally?
LobbyVault attributes $8,069,612 to the UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON employer string, from 37,390 contributions and 943 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a campus PAC and not a NAICS higher-education total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted from that figure.
Does this include people who typed UW?
Only if the receipt grouped to UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. The abbreviation UW is another stored string when filers typed it. STATE OF WASHINGTON, if present as typed, would be a different government-employer key. Figures here are limited to this FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault.
Is this UW endowment or PAC spending?
No. The $8,069,612 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON. Endowment management and campus PAC filings are other categories. Coverage is itemized federal receipts only. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts only.
How many unique donors listed UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON?
The rollup counts 943 donors and 37,390 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count — on the order of 40 itemized receipts per donor. This is not a campus employee census. Coverage is itemized federal receipts only. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer 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.

Industry ties

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Cycle-over-Cycle Trend

UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON political contributions by election cycle.
CycleTotalContributionsDonors
1980$25011
1998$50021
2000$20011
2006$1,00021

Top Donors

Top UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON donors ranked by total donated.
#NameTotalContributionsCity / StateOccupationHistory
1DAY, ROBERT W DR$2501SEATTLE, WA1980

Top Recipients

Top political committees that received UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON donations.
#CommitteeTotalContributions
1FRIENDS OF MARIAC00349506$1,0001
2REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEEC00003418$5001
3CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE FOR SENATOR WARREN G MAGNUSONC00029173$2501
4FRIENDS FOR SLADE GORTONC00157586$2001