Columbia University and the 2012 FEC election cycle

Campus employer string × 2012

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Columbia University and 2012 — sum to $681,172. 978 itemized contributions and 297 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.

Neither the Columbia University hub nor the 2012 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Two hundred ninety-seven donors listed Columbia University in 2012 across 978 lines. Medical-center suffixes can split clinical staff into a neighboring bucket. The university as an institution is not the payor. Endowment figures and federal research awards are different datasets. COLUMBIA, COLUMBIA UNIV, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, and BARNARD COLLEGE are other keys if stored separately.

7.7% of the Columbia University roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $8,849,740 ($8.8 million). The 2012 slice of $681,172 is about 7.7% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.3%. Treating 2012 as the Columbia University FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $8,849,740 as the denominator for the 7.7% 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 2012 from being folded silently into $8,849,740.

978 contributions from 297 donors

Dividing $681,172 by 978 contributions yields about $696 per itemized gift. Dividing by 297 donors yields about $2,294 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.3. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

297 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 2012 holds the rows.

2012 as the cycle dimension

The 2012 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 2012 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 $681,172 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 978 contributions, the 297 unique donors, and the 7.7% share of $8,849,740.

University text, not a campus PAC

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $681,172. 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 higher-education NAICS total and not a 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, 297 donors, and 978 contributions. COLUMBIA, COLUMBIA UNIV, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER, and BARNARD COLLEGE are other keys if stored separately. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Columbia University and 2012 together

Start with $681,172, then Columbia University 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Columbia University, 2012, $681,172, 978 contributions, 297 donors, 7.7% 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 7.7% share, the 297-donor count, and the $696 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 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $681,172 in itemized individual contributions for the Columbia University grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 978 contributions and 297 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $8,849,740 all-cycle figure.

What share of Columbia University FEC money is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $8,849,740. The 2012 cell of $681,172 is about 7.7% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.3% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Columbia University hub holds other cycles; the 2012 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Columbia University’s institutional PAC or endowment?

No. $681,172 is contributor disclosures that listed Columbia University as employer. The university as an institution is not the payor. Endowment figures and research awards are different datasets. 297 donors are text matches, not a faculty census. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Columbia University hub holds other cycles; the 2012 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Columbia University 2012 join?

Open Columbia University 2012 for the cycle overlay, Columbia University for the grouping hub, and the 2012 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.