YALE UNIVERSITY

642 donors and $4,982,646

Six hundred forty-two unique donors produced $4,982,646, about $7,761 each if the total is divided evenly. Twenty-three thousand four hundred thirty-seven contributions against 642 people is about 37 itemized gifts per donor. Mean contribution size is about $213. Those three derived ratios use only the packet’s total, contribution count, and donor count.

Campus employer strings mix faculty, staff, hospital affiliates, and people who list a school after they leave. The FEC form does not timestamp employment against payroll. The 642-donor figure is therefore a count of matching disclosure text, not a faculty census and not a count of current Yale employees.

Free-text employer fields on FEC.gov

Individual contribution records on FEC.gov include employer and occupation as uncoded strings. YALE UNIVERSITY is one such string. Yale School of Medicine, Yale-New Haven, or a department abbreviation can file as different industry slugs if ingest keeps them separate. This page’s $4,982,646 belongs only to the YALE UNIVERSITY key.

Occupation pages cut the same universe by job title. A professor who wrote Yale in the employer box can appear in both views. This industry page does not merge those cuts; it reports the employer-string aggregate alone.

Questions

How much have Yale University filers given in federal races?

The YALE UNIVERSITY industry cluster totals $4,982,646 in itemized contributions on FEC.gov, across 23,437 contributions from 642 donors. Those filers listed YALE UNIVERSITY as employer or occupation. The figure is a text 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 Yale-labeled donors are there?

LobbyVault counts 642 donors in this cluster. They produced 23,437 contributions. Donor count is unique people whose disclosed employer/occupation text matched YALE UNIVERSITY, not a count of faculty or staff on payroll. 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 higher education?

No. FEC individual files do not carry NAICS. LobbyVault industry pages group the employer string filers typed. YALE UNIVERSITY is that string. Related campus or hospital names may appear as other slugs. 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 $4,982,646 include Yale’s endowment or treasury?

The packet facts do not include endowment or treasury figures. They sum itemized federal contribution amounts tagged to the YALE UNIVERSITY employer/occupation string. Contributor identity is on each FEC row, visible via the donor table. 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.