How much did College Track donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $124,500 in itemized individual contributions for the College Track grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 45 contributions and 5 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $7,813,922 all-cycle figure. Independent expenditures are not included.

What share of College Track FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $7,813,922. The 2008 cell of $124,500 is about 1.6% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 98.4% ($7,689,422) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell.

Does this include only currently employed College Track donors?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string COLLEGE TRACK. The FEC does not verify licenses, current jobs, or corporate identity. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $124,500 from 5 donors across 45 contributions.

Where is the overlay for the College Track 2008 join?

Open College Track 2008 for the cycle overlay, College Track for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows. Cite FEC.gov for $124,500, 45 contributions, and 5 donors.

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College Track and the 2008 FEC election cycle

$124,500 in itemized individual contributions is the 2008-cycle join for the employer grouping College Track. FEC.gov aggregates count 45 contributions from 5 donors. The same string totals $7,813,922 across every cycle in this table, so the cell is about 1.6% of the lifetime bucket — organization employer text meeting a two-year window, not College Track as a 501(c) treasury or an education PAC.

Key figures

College Track × 2008 is $124,500 in itemized individual contributions.
The cell includes 45 contributions from 5 donors.
2008 is about 1.6% of the grouping’s $7,813,922 all-cycle total.
The label is self-reported form text (organization employer text), not College Track as a 501(c) treasury or an education PAC.
FEC gifts and federal award files remain separate datasets.

College Track as stored text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — COLLEGE TRACK and 2008 — sum to $124,500. 45 itemized contributions and 5 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables. Cite FEC.gov for this intersection.

Neither the College Track hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. College Track is organization employer text, not a verified payroll file. 5 donors and 45 lines in 2008 matched that stored string. People who typed a neighboring spelling sit in other buckets. Named affiliates and related titles are other keys. This page is the exact string COLLEGE TRACK.

The join exists so a reader does not treat $7,813,922 (all cycles for this string) as the 2008 story, and does not treat the 2008 cycle hub as a College Track-only list. Two filters, one cell: $124,500.

1.6% of the College Track roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $7,813,922. The 2008 slice of $124,500 is about 1.6% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 98.4% ($7,689,422). Treating 2008 as the entire College Track FEC story would ignore that remainder. The industry hub is the year index for this string.

Treat $7,813,922 as the denominator for the 1.6% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $7,813,922. Neighboring spellings are not added into either figure.

45 contributions from 5 donors

Dividing $124,500 by 45 contributions yields about $2,767 per itemized gift. Dividing by 5 donors yields about $24,900 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 9.0. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split. FEC.gov itemized individual receipts are the universe.

The packet lists 5 unique donors. That is a small identity count, not a finding that College Track as an institution wrote $124,500. One or a few people who reused the same employer or title field can dominate a cell. Repeat gifts raise 45 contribution lines above the 5-donor count. The overlay holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer and occupation for that window. College Track is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and College Track to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $124,500 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 45 contributions, the 5 unique donors, and the 1.6% share of $7,813,922.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $124,500. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is organization employer text, not College Track as a 501(c) treasury or an education PAC.

Correlation between an employer string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 5 donors, and 45 contributions. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Citing College Track and 2008 together

Start with $124,500, then College Track 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: COLLEGE TRACK, 2008, $124,500, 45 contributions, 5 donors, 1.6% of $7,813,922, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 1.6% share, the 5-donor count, and the $2,767 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling employer word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. 45 itemized contributions totaling $124,500 average about $2,767 per line. Unitemized gifts never appear. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Questions

How much did College Track donors give in 2008?: FEC.gov aggregates show $124,500 in itemized individual contributions for the College Track grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 45 contributions and 5 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $7,813,922 all-cycle figure. Independent expenditures are not included.
What share of College Track FEC money is 2008?: The grouping’s all-cycle total is $7,813,922. The 2008 cell of $124,500 is about 1.6% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 98.4% ($7,689,422) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell.
Does this include only currently employed College Track donors?: No. The bucket is the self-reported string COLLEGE TRACK. The FEC does not verify licenses, current jobs, or corporate identity. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2008 only, totaling $124,500 from 5 donors across 45 contributions.
Where is the overlay for the College Track 2008 join?: Open College Track 2008 for the cycle overlay, College Track for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows. Cite FEC.gov for $124,500, 45 contributions, and 5 donors.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle.