Stanford 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 — Stanford University and 2008 — sum to $847,394. 830 itemized contributions and 320 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 Stanford 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 Stanford University as employer in 2008 produced 830 lines from 320 donors. The university as an institution is not the payor. Student status is not certified. STANFORD without University can sit on a shorter key. STANFORD, STANFORD UNIV, STANFORD U HOSPITAL, and STANFORD MEDICAL or school-level strings are other keys if stored separately.

5.5% of the Stanford University roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $15,350,461 ($15.4 million). The 2008 slice of $847,394 is about 5.5% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 94.5% ($14,503,067). Treating 2008 as the Stanford University FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $15,350,461 as the denominator for the 5.5% 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 $15,350,461.

830 contributions from 320 donors

Dividing $847,394 by 830 contributions yields about $1,021 per itemized gift. Dividing by 320 donors yields about $2,648 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.6. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

320 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 Stanford University 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Stanford 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 Stanford University to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $847,394.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $847,394 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 830 contributions, the 320 unique donors, and the 5.5% share of $15,350,461.

University text, not a campus PAC

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $847,394. 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 Stanford 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, 320 donors, and 830 contributions. Hospital or medical-center suffixes can land in neighboring keys such as Stanford U Hospital. Research awards in USAspending are a different dataset. This page reports itemized individual receipts whose employer text grouped to Stanford University. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Stanford University and 2008 together

Start with $847,394, then Stanford University 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Stanford University, 2008, $847,394, 830 contributions, 320 donors, 5.5% of $15,350,461, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string STANFORD UNIVERSITY.

The 5.5% share, the 320-donor count, and the $1,021 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 Stanford University donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $847,394 in itemized individual contributions for the Stanford University grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 830 contributions and 320 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $15,350,461 all-cycle figure.

What share of Stanford University FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $15,350,461. The 2008 cell of $847,394 is about 5.5% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 94.5% ($14,503,067) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Stanford University hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Stanford University’s institutional PAC or endowment?

No. $847,394 is contributor disclosures that listed Stanford University as employer. The university as an institution is not the payor. Endowment figures and research awards are different datasets. 320 donors are text matches, not a faculty census. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Stanford University hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Stanford University 2008 join?

Open Stanford University 2008 for the cycle overlay, Stanford 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.