Cornell University and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Cornell University crossed with 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Cornell University and 2008 — sum to $187,040. 405 itemized contributions and 136 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. CORNELL UNIVERSITY is grouped employer text. The 2008 filter keeps receipts in that cycle whose employer field collapsed to this key. It does not split Ithaca, Weill Cornell, or job titles.

Neither the Cornell University hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. The Cornell University hub is the year index for this string. CORNELL UNIV, WEILL CORNELL, 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.

3.1% of the Cornell University roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $6.0 million ($5,990,437). The 2008 slice of $187,040 is about 3.1% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.9%. Treating 2008 as the Cornell University FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $5,990,437 as the denominator for the 3.1% 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 2008 from being folded silently into $5,990,437.

405 contributions from 136 donors

Dividing $187,040 by 405 contributions yields about $462 per itemized gift. Dividing by 136 donors yields about $1,375 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.0. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

136 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 Cornell University 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Cornell University 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 Cornell University to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $187,040 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 405 contributions, the 136 unique donors, and the 3.1% share of $5,990,437.

Limits of the Cornell University × 2008 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $187,040. 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 Cornell 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, 136 donors, and 405 contributions. CORNELL, CORNELL UNIV, WEILL CORNELL, and PROFESSOR are other keys if stored separately. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Cornell University and 2008 together

Start with $187,040, then Cornell University 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Cornell University, 2008, $187,040, 405 contributions, 136 donors, 3.1% of $5,990,437, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 3.1% share, the 136-donor count, and the $462 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 Cornell University donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $187,040 in itemized individual contributions for the Cornell University grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 405 contributions and 136 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $5,990,437 all-cycle figure. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

What share of Cornell University FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $5,990,437. The 2008 cell of $187,040 is about 3.1% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.9% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Cornell University hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

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

No. $187,040 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Cornell 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 Cornell University PAC.

Where is the overlay for the Cornell University 2008 join?

Open Cornell University 2008 for the cycle overlay, Cornell University 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. Original filings remain on FEC.gov.