How much did Stanford University donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,157,270 in itemized individual contributions for the Stanford University grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 969 contributions and 312 donors. That sum is not a university PAC or an endowment transfer.

Are these 312 donors all faculty?

No. They are contributor identities whose employer field matched Stanford University. Staff, retirees, or others who typed the school name can appear. People who listed only a title, or a different affiliate name, land on other keys.

What share of Stanford University FEC money is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $15,350,461. The 2012 cell of $1,157,270 is about 7.5% of that figure. Other cycles are not listed here.

Where is the overlay for this join?

Open Stanford University 2012 for the cycle overlay, Stanford University for the grouping hub, and the 2012 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

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Stanford University and the 2012 FEC election cycle

Donors listing Stanford University reported $1,157,270 in itemized individual contributions during the 2012 federal election cycle, according to FEC.gov aggregates. Those dollars arrived in 969 contributions from 312 donors. The figure is a slice of the Stanford University employer grouping, not a university PAC and not an endowment transfer. This page joins that campus employer string to the 2012 two-year window so the overlap can be read without treating it as a faculty census or a ranking of colleges. Campus employer keys and professor-title keys split the same real-world people; this page reports only filers who typed Stanford University as the workplace string.

Key figures

Stanford University × 2012 is $1,157,270 in itemized individual contributions.
The cell includes 969 contributions from 312 donors.
2012 is about 7.5% of the grouping’s $15,350,461 all-cycle total.
The key is a campus employer string, not a faculty census.
FEC gifts and federal research awards are different datasets.

Stanford University crossed with 2012

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Stanford University and 2012 — sum to $1,157,270. The total is not an official university disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $15,350,461. The 2012 slice is about 7.5% of that running sum. A presidential-year cell that is roughly one-thirteenth of the key’s history is a real intersection. It is not the whole story of the label, and it is not a substitute for occupation keys such as Educator Professor, which store title text rather than a school name.

What the campus employer string holds

Filers type employer text. Stanford University collects strings that match this institution name. People who listed a hospital affiliate, a lab with a different legal name, or simply “professor” without the school may land elsewhere. This join does not merge those neighbors.

312 donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of faculty plus staff plus alumni. Alumni who listed a current employer other than the university are absent from this cell. Retirees who still typed the school name can be present. The Commission does not certify affiliation.

Treat $15,350,461 as the denominator for the 7.5% share. It is not an endowment figure and not proof of a university political program. Neighboring school keys have their own denominators.

969 contributions from 312 donors

Dividing $1,157,270 by 969 contributions yields about $1,194 per itemized gift. Dividing by 312 donors yields about $3,709 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.1. Those means describe modest repeat giving in a relatively broad cell. They are not medians and not a party split.

312 donors is broader than the two-person Educator Professor 2014 cell and must not be compared as a ranking of “academia.” Different keys capture different text. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count, which is why 969 and 312 belong together. The overlay for Stanford University 2012 holds the rows. About 3.1 lines per donor among 312 campus-string identities is a university-employer pattern, not the two-donor Educator Professor 2014 title cell.

2012 without a college scoreboard

The 2012 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. It also does not rank universities against one another.

Open the 2012 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Stanford University to drop the year. All FEC ties lists other relationship pages. Occupation-style joins remain separate from this campus key.

Limits of a university employer join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $1,157,270. Federal research awards in USAspending are a different dataset. Sharing a university name and a calendar year does not turn these itemized gifts into grant funding.

Correlation between a campus employer string and a presidential-year cycle is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 312 donors, and 969 contributions. Curriculum and research outcomes are not in the table.

Reading the campus cell next to the hubs

Start with $1,157,270, then Stanford University 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Keep title buckets such as Educator Professor on their own pages.

The 7.5% share, the 312-donor count, and the $1,194 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto another school or another year and they stop being facts from this packet. Three hundred twelve donors and 969 contributions, at about $1,194 per gift, describe a relatively broad university cell. The 7.5 percent share of $15,350,461 is a denominator fact, not an endowment comparison. Federal research awards in another database remain a different universe from these itemized individual receipts.

Questions

How much did Stanford University donors give in 2012?: FEC.gov aggregates show $1,157,270 in itemized individual contributions for the Stanford University grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 969 contributions and 312 donors. That sum is not a university PAC or an endowment transfer.
Are these 312 donors all faculty?: No. They are contributor identities whose employer field matched Stanford University. Staff, retirees, or others who typed the school name can appear. People who listed only a title, or a different affiliate name, land on other keys.
What share of Stanford University FEC money is 2012?: The grouping’s all-cycle total is $15,350,461. The 2012 cell of $1,157,270 is about 7.5% of that figure. Other cycles are not listed here.
Where is the overlay for this join?: Open Stanford University 2012 for the cycle overlay, Stanford University for the grouping hub, and the 2012 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle.