MIT and the 2014 FEC election cycle

Reading $274,843 as an intersection

$274,843 is the amount that survives both filters. The employer filter is MIT (MIT). The cycle filter is 2014. FEC.gov itemized individual contributions supply the dollars, the 355 lines, and the 74 donors.

Because the grouping is university employer text, the cell is a text match. Household members, retirees, and former workers can reuse a workplace or title. The Commission does not audit those claims on this aggregate.

Use the industry hub when the question is every cycle for MIT. Use the 2014 election cycle when the question is every string that year. Use this tie when the question is both.

The $7,257,813 denominator

Divide $274,843 by $7,257,813 and the result is about 3.8%. The complementary share is 96.2%, or $6,982,970 outside 2014. Those two pieces add to the grouping total on FEC.gov as stored here.

$7,257,813 is not earnings, assets, or federal contract value. It is summed itemized individual contributions that matched MIT in any cycle in this table. The denominator $7,257,813 is every cycle stored for MIT, not revenue and not assets. $274,843 over $7,257,813 is about 3.8%. The leftover $6,982,970 is other even-year windows on the MIT hub.

$774 per contribution, $3,714 per donor

Per-gift mean $774 and per-donor mean $3,714 follow from $274,843, 355, and 74. About 4.8 itemized lines per donor is the third ratio. Report them as means, not as typical gifts.

Contributor identities can include people who listed MIT as employer or occupation without a current job match. The FEC form is self-reported. Means: $774 per itemized contribution, $3,714 per unique donor, 4.8 contributions per donor. Report them as arithmetic on $274,843, 355, and 74. They are not medians.

Cycle tag versus calendar year

Calendar year 2014 and FEC cycle 2014 are easy to confuse. The stored tag is the cycle. Both years of the window can feed $274,843. This prose does not split them because the packet does not.

MIT remains one grouping among many on the 2014 hub. This join does not list siblings. All FEC ties is the directory of other two-dimension pages. 2014 as a cycle tag includes the odd year paired with that even year. This packet does not split those years. $274,843 is the two-year cell.

Correlation is not a spending trail

A shared year and a shared employer word are not a causal chain. $274,843 is the itemized-individual overlap. It is not proof that MIT as an organization directed the gifts, and it is not proof that the gifts bought federal contracts.

All FEC ties collects other joins. Live overlay numbers win if they disagree with this snapshot. FEC.gov remains the originating public record. PAC filings sit outside $274,843. So do independent expenditures and unitemized gifts. So do USAspending obligations. The page is university employer text, not a campus PAC, Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a longer sibling string, or a university treasury.

Using the four internal links

Four hrefs cover the join: the 2014 overlay for this string, the MIT industry hub, the 2014 election cycle hub, and the ties index. Together they let a reader add or remove one filter at a time without leaving FEC itemized-individual space.

This snapshot recorded $274,843 from 355 contributions and 74 donors. Live pages can move. FEC.gov is the originating filing system. Citation order that preserves the join: dollars first ($274,843), then both keys (MIT, 2014), then volume (355 contributions, 74 donors), then source (FEC.gov). Restating the join without new numbers: MIT in 2014 is $274,843 from 355 itemized individual contributions and 74 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $7,257,813 across cycles, so 2014 is about 3.8% and other windows hold $6,982,970 (96.2%). The grouping is university employer text, not a campus PAC, Massachusetts Institute of Technology as a longer sibling string, or a university treasury. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $774; mean per donor about $3,714; about 4.8 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2014 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $274,843.

Questions

How much did MIT donors give in 2014?

The MIT × 2014 cell is $274,843. FEC.gov counted 355 itemized individual contributions from 74 unique donors. That is the join, not the $7,257,813 lifetime grouping total and not a committee disbursement. FEC.gov is the source for $274,843, 355 contributions, and 74 donors in the MIT × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,257,813.

What share of MIT FEC money is 2014?

About 3.8%. $274,843 divided by $7,257,813 is the 2014 share for this exact string. $6,982,970 (96.2%) sits in other cycles. No national 2014 denominator is in the packet. FEC.gov is the source for $274,843, 355 contributions, and 74 donors in the MIT × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,257,813.

Does this include only MIT faculty and staff?

No. 74 unique donors matched MIT in 2014. Retirees, household members, and former workers can reuse the string. Neighboring spellings are other keys. The total remains $274,843. FEC.gov is the source for $274,843, 355 contributions, and 74 donors in the MIT × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,257,813.

Where is the overlay for the MIT 2014 join?

The overlay path is the MIT 2014 link. The industry hub drops the year. The 2014 election cycle drops the string. All FEC ties is the directory of joins. Dollars: $274,843. FEC.gov is the source for $274,843, 355 contributions, and 74 donors in the MIT × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,257,813.