MIT political money — 2012 cycle

Why MIT and 2012 share one page

This page exists because two indexes meet. One index is the employer string MIT. The other is the 2012 two-year FEC window. Only rows that carry both keys enter $511,268. The MIT hub without a year filter is $7,257,813. The 2012 cycle hub without this employer filter is a different table and is not a denominator in this packet. Cite FEC.gov for the intersection.

MIT is the stored abbreviation. Filers who wrote the full institute name sit in another employer key. 644 lines and 157 identities produced the cell. Repeat gifts explain why the line count can exceed the donor count. The overlay Mit 2012 holds the itemized rows. This JSON file names the join; it is not a second filing system.

Do not restate the MIT hub as if it were 2012-only, and do not restate the 2012 cycle hub as if it were MIT-only. Two filters, one cell: $511,268 from FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

The MIT string without the year filter

$7,257,813 is every cycle for the stored string MIT. Subtract $511,268 and $6,746,545 remains in other even-year windows (93.0%). That remainder is visible on the MIT hub. It is not published as a cycle-by-cycle list in this packet, so other years are not quoted here as dollar amounts.

MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, M.I.T., and named MIT labs are neighboring spellings. They are not aliases of MIT. Adding them would invent a sector total the packet does not contain. MIT is employer string, not an MIT PAC, a campus payroll census, or an education NAICS total.

Receipts, donors, and means inside 2012

644 contributions divided into $511,268 is about $794 per receipt. 157 donors divided into the same total is about $3,256 per identity. Lines per donor average about 4.1. Those quotients are packet arithmetic. They are not typical pay, not typical gift size in a legal sense, and not a party split.

A donor identity is a contributor record in the extract, not a named person on this page and not a headcount of everyone who worked under that label. Household members and retirees can reuse a workplace or title. Unitemized federal gifts sit outside $511,268.

What the 2012 window contains

2012 is a presidential cycle tag on FEC.gov. Money dated in either year of that two-year window can sit in $511,268. The packet does not split odd-year versus even-year dollars and does not name committees. Open 2012 election cycle to drop the MIT filter. Open Mit to drop the year.

No cycle-wide total is in this packet, so MIT is not ranked as a share of all 2012 giving. Ranking would require a denominator this file does not have. Keep both nouns — MIT and 2012 — when quoting $511,268.

Limits of the join

Itemized individual contributions are the universe. PAC spending, independent expenditures, and state-office filings are outside $511,268. USAspending obligations are a different statute and a different form. Do not read $511,268 as federal awards tied to MIT. The page is not an MIT PAC, a campus payroll census, or an education NAICS total.

A text match is not motive. 157 donors and 644 contributions show volume in the extract, not that MIT steered the 2012 cycle. If a later FEC extract revises $511,268, 644 receipts, or 157 donors, the newer extract controls.

How to quote MIT × 2012

Citation template: employer/industry grouping MIT, election cycle 2012, $511,268 on 644 itemized individual contributions from 157 donors, 7.0% of the all-cycle $7,257,813. Source: FEC.gov. Then point to Mit 2012, Mit, 2012 election cycle, and All FEC ties.

Do not add $511,268 to $7,257,813; the cycle cell is already inside the lifetime bucket. Do not fold MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, M.I.T., and named MIT labs into either figure. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Questions

How much FEC money is tagged MIT in 2012?

This extract records $511,268 on 644 itemized individual receipts from 157 donors where the stored grouping is MIT and the cycle is 2012. That is not the $7,257,813 all-cycle book and not a PAC total. Source: FEC.gov.

Is MIT the same as MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY?

No. Only the exact stored string MIT is inside $511,268. MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY, M.I.T., and named MIT labs are other keys on this site. 157 donors and 644 receipts follow that exact-match rule. LobbyVault does not recode the employer field into a sector total.

What share of MIT dollars landed in 2012?

$511,268 is about 7.0% of the all-cycle grouping $7,257,813. Other even-year windows hold $6,746,545 (93.0%) on the MIT hub. Quote both totals together. Do not recast 7.0% as a ranking of employers in 2012.

Does MIT giving in 2012 pay for USAspending awards?

No. FEC Schedule A individual contributions and USAspending awards are different datasets under different statutes. This packet publishes no obligation dollars. Sharing a workplace string and a calendar year does not convert $511,268 into a federal contract or grant. Cite FEC.gov. MIT in 2012 is $511,268 on 644 itemized receipts from 157 donors; the all-cycle grouping is $7,257,813.