Harvard University political money — 2008 cycle

Campus employer string × 2008

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Harvard University and 2008 — sum to $817,850. 1,043 itemized contributions and 372 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 Harvard University hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Faculty, staff, and others who typed Harvard University as employer in 2008 produced 1,043 lines from 372 donors. School-level suffixes can sit next door. HARVARD without University is a shorter key if stored separately. The university as an institution is not the payor. HARVARD, HARVARD UNIV, HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, and HARVARD LAW SCHOOL are other keys if stored separately.

6.7% of the Harvard University roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $12,178,102 ($12.2 million). The 2008 slice of $817,850 is about 6.7% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.3% ($11,360,252). Treating 2008 as the Harvard University FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $12,178,102 as the denominator for the 6.7% 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 2008 from being folded silently into $12,178,102.

1,043 contributions from 372 donors

Dividing $817,850 by 1,043 contributions yields about $784 per itemized gift. Dividing by 372 donors yields about $2,199 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.8. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

372 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 Harvard University 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Harvard 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 Harvard University to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $817,850.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $817,850 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 1,043 contributions, the 372 unique donors, and the 6.7% share of $12,178,102.

University text, not a campus PAC

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $817,850. 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 Harvard PAC or endowment figure.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 372 donors, and 1,043 contributions. Stanford University is a peer campus string with its own 2008 overlay, not a subset of this cell. Endowment figures and federal research awards are different datasets. This join is employer text crossed with the 2008 cycle. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Harvard University and 2008 together

Start with $817,850, then Harvard University 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Harvard University, 2008, $817,850, 1,043 contributions, 372 donors, 6.7% of $12,178,102, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string HARVARD UNIVERSITY.

The 6.7% share, the 372-donor count, and the $784 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 Harvard University donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $817,850 in itemized individual contributions for the Harvard University grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 1,043 contributions and 372 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $12,178,102 all-cycle figure.

What share of Harvard University FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $12,178,102. The 2008 cell of $817,850 is about 6.7% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.3% ($11,360,252) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Harvard University hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Harvard University’s institutional PAC or endowment?

No. $817,850 is contributor disclosures that listed Harvard University as employer. The university as an institution is not the payor. Endowment figures and research awards are different datasets. 372 donors are text matches, not a faculty census. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Harvard University hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Harvard University 2008 join?

Open Harvard University 2008 for the cycle overlay, Harvard 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.