Northwestern University and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Campus employer string × 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Northwestern University and 2008 — sum to $413,858. The cell holds 575 itemized contributions and 184 unique donors. 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 Northwestern University hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. One hundred eighty-four donors listed Northwestern University in 2008 across 575 contribution lines. The campus name is employer text. It is not tuition revenue, not an endowment, and not a research-grant total from USAspending. NORTHWESTERN, NORTHWESTERN UNIV, and NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL or hospital strings are other keys if stored separately.

8.2% of the Northwestern University roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $5,038,256 ($5.0 million). The 2008 slice of $413,858 is about 8.2% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 91.8%. Treating 2008 as the Northwestern University FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $5,038,256 as the denominator for the 8.2% 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 $5,038,256.

575 contributions from 184 donors

Dividing $413,858 by 575 contributions yields about $720 per itemized gift. Dividing by 184 donors yields about $2,249 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.

184 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 Northwestern University 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

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

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $413,858 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 575 contributions, the 184 unique donors, and the 8.2% share of $5,038,256.

University text, not a campus PAC

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $413,858. 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 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, 184 donors, and 575 contributions. NORTHWESTERN, NORTHWESTERN UNIV, and NORTHWESTERN MEMORIAL or hospital strings are other keys if stored separately. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Northwestern University and 2008 together

Start with $413,858, then Northwestern University 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Northwestern University, 2008, $413,858, 575 contributions, 184 donors, 8.2% of $5,038,256, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 8.2% share, the 184-donor count, and the $720 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 Northwestern University donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $413,858 in itemized individual contributions for the Northwestern University grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 575 contributions and 184 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $5,038,256 all-cycle figure.

What share of Northwestern University FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $5,038,256. The 2008 cell of $413,858 is about 8.2% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 91.8% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Northwestern University hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Northwestern University’s institutional PAC or endowment?

No. $413,858 is contributor disclosures that listed Northwestern University as employer. The university as an institution is not the payor. Endowment figures and research awards are different datasets. 184 donors are text matches, not a faculty census. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Northwestern University hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Northwestern University 2008 join?

Open Northwestern University 2008 for the cycle overlay, Northwestern 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.