Columbia University and the 2010 FEC election cycle

Columbia University crossed with 2010

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Columbia University and 2010 — sum to $263,276. 511 itemized contributions and 140 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. COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY is grouped employer text. The 2010 filter keeps receipts in that cycle whose employer field collapsed to this key. It does not split faculty, staff, students, or medical-center units.

Neither the Columbia University hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. The Columbia University hub is the year index for this string. COLUMBIA UNIV, medical-center labels, and PROFESSOR occupation titles stay on their own keys if filers used them. Federal research awards on USAspending are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts.

3.0% of the Columbia University roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $8.8 million ($8,849,740). The 2010 slice of $263,276 is about 3.0% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 97.0%. Treating 2010 as the Columbia University FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $8,849,740 as the denominator for the 3.0% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2010 from being folded silently into $8,849,740.

511 contributions from 140 donors

Dividing $263,276 by 511 contributions yields about $515 per itemized gift. Dividing by 140 donors yields about $1,881 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.6. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

140 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Columbia University 2010 holds the rows.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Columbia University is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Columbia University to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $263,276 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 511 contributions, the 140 unique donors, and the 3.0% share of $8,849,740.

Limits of the Columbia University × 2010 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $263,276. 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 not a university endowment and not a Columbia University PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 140 donors, and 511 contributions. COLUMBIA UNIV, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, BARNARD, and PROFESSOR are other keys if stored separately. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Columbia University and 2010 together

Start with $263,276, then Columbia University 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Columbia University, 2010, $263,276, 511 contributions, 140 donors, 3.0% of $8,849,740, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 3.0% share, the 140-donor count, and the $515 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

Questions

How much did Columbia University donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $263,276 in itemized individual contributions for the Columbia University grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 511 contributions and 140 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $8,849,740 all-cycle figure. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

What share of Columbia University FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $8,849,740. The 2010 cell of $263,276 is about 3.0% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 97.0% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Columbia University hub holds other cycles; the 2010 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Columbia University’s PAC or an official account?

No. $263,276 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Columbia University. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup unless an individual receipt itself carries the string. The key is not a university endowment and not a Columbia University PAC.

Where is the overlay for the Columbia University 2010 join?

Open Columbia University 2010 for the cycle overlay, Columbia University for the grouping hub, and the 2010 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. Original filings remain on FEC.gov.