Harvard University and the 2014 FEC election cycle

Harvard University crossed with 2014

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Harvard University and 2014 — sum to $451,036. 539 itemized contributions and 172 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. This page joins the employer grouping Harvard University to cycle 2014; it is not a restatement of either hub alone.

Neither the Harvard University hub nor the 2014 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. 172 unique donors and 539 lines in 2014 sit under the stored string HARVARD UNIVERSITY. HARVARD, HARVARD COLLEGE, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, and HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL stay on their own keys if filers used them. NIH, NSF, or other university-research USAspending rows are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

3.7% of the Harvard University roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $12,178,102 ($12.2 million). The 2014 slice of $451,036 is about 3.7% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.3%, or $11,727,066. Treating 2014 as the Harvard University FEC story would ignore that remainder. Quote $451,036 when the sentence is about 2014. Quote $12,178,102 when the sentence is about the grouping across cycles. Do not add those two dollar figures; the first is already inside the second.

Treat $12,178,102 as the denominator for the 3.7% 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 2014 from being folded silently into $12,178,102. 3.7% is $451,036 divided by $12,178,102. Rounding to $451,036 and $12.2 million does not create extra facts. Use exact integers in a table. Use the rounded forms only as headlines of those same integers.

539 contributions from 172 donors

Dividing $451,036 by 539 contributions yields about $837 per itemized gift. Dividing by 172 donors yields about $2,622 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.1. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Harvard University 2014 holds the rows.

172 unique donors are contributor identities, not a census of employees, members, or officeholders. People who list the institution as employer or occupation can include staff, affiliates, and others who reused the string. Unitemized gifts never appear in $451,036. State-office campaigns never enter this cell. A later amendment can restate a large transfer while most of the 539 small lines stay put. After quarterly filings, reread the live overlay. If that hub and this snapshot disagree, FEC.gov controls.

2014 as the cycle dimension

The 2014 election cycle hub includes every stored employer or occupation 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 2014 election cycle to drop the employer grouping filter and Harvard University to drop the year. FEC cycle 2014 covers 2013–2014. A gift dated in the odd year and a gift dated in the even year can share the $451,036 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 539 contributions, the 172 unique donors, and the 3.7% share of $12,178,102. Comparing Harvard University in 2014 to another grouping requires that other grouping’s cycle hub. This packet has one grouping and one cycle.

Limits of the Harvard University × 2014 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $451,036. NIH, NSF, or other university-research USAspending rows are different datasets. Sharing an employer or occupation string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. Correlation between a stored string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 172 donors, and 539 contributions.

HARVARD, HARVARD COLLEGE, HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL, and HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL are other keys if stored separately. LobbyVault does not merge neighboring spellings into HARVARD UNIVERSITY. The key is filer-entered employer text — not a Harvard payroll, not an endowment report, and not a university PAC. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. A ranking of industries for 2014 is a different page — the 2014 election-cycle index — not a homemade sort of this file.

Citing Harvard University and 2014 together

Start with $451,036, then Harvard University 2014 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2014 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Harvard University, 2014, $451,036, 539 contributions, 172 donors, 3.7% of $12,178,102, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 3.7% share, the 172 donors count, and the $837 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling string 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. Do not print a 2014 share of US politics from $451,036. The denominator for 3.7% is $12,178,102, the Harvard University grouping in this extract, not every itemized dollar on FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Harvard University donors give in 2014?

FEC.gov aggregates show $451,036 in itemized individual contributions for the Harvard University grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 539 contributions and 172 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $12,178,102 all-cycle figure. Cite FEC.gov for the Harvard University × 2014 join.

What share of Harvard University FEC money is 2014?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $12,178,102. The 2014 cell of $451,036 is about 3.7% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.3% ($11,727,066) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Harvard University hub holds other cycles.

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

No. $451,036 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Harvard University. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup. The key is not a Harvard payroll, not an endowment report, and not a university PAC. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Where is the overlay for the Harvard University 2014 join?

Open Harvard University 2014 for the cycle overlay, Harvard University for the grouping hub, and the 2014 election cycle for the year without this filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.