UCLA and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Reading $462,757 as an intersection

$462,757 is the amount that survives both filters. The employer filter is UCLA (UCLA). The cycle filter is 2008. FEC.gov itemized individual contributions supply the dollars, the 680 lines, and the 236 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 UCLA. Use the 2008 election cycle when the question is every string that year. Use this tie when the question is both.

The $7,408,907 denominator

Divide $462,757 by $7,408,907 and the result is about 6.2%. The complementary share is 93.8%, or $6,946,150 outside 2008. Those two pieces add to the grouping total on FEC.gov as stored here.

$7,408,907 is not earnings, assets, or federal contract value. It is summed itemized individual contributions that matched UCLA in any cycle in this table. The denominator $7,408,907 is every cycle stored for UCLA, not revenue and not assets. $462,757 over $7,408,907 is about 6.2%. The leftover $6,946,150 is other even-year windows on the UCLA hub.

$681 per contribution, $1,961 per donor

Per-gift mean $681 and per-donor mean $1,961 follow from $462,757, 680, and 236. About 2.9 itemized lines per donor is the third ratio. Report them as means, not as typical gifts.

Contributor identities can include people who listed UCLA as employer or occupation without a current job match. The FEC form is self-reported. Means: $681 per itemized contribution, $1,961 per unique donor, 2.9 contributions per donor. Report them as arithmetic on $462,757, 680, and 236. They are not medians.

Cycle tag versus calendar year

Calendar year 2008 and FEC cycle 2008 are easy to confuse. The stored tag is the cycle. Both years of the window can feed $462,757. This prose does not split them because the packet does not.

UCLA remains one grouping among many on the 2008 hub. This join does not list siblings. All FEC ties is the directory of other two-dimension pages. 2008 as a cycle tag includes the odd year paired with that even year. This packet does not split those years. $462,757 is the two-year cell.

Correlation is not a spending trail

A shared year and a shared employer word are not a causal chain. $462,757 is the itemized-individual overlap. It is not proof that UCLA 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 $462,757. So do independent expenditures and unitemized gifts. So do USAspending obligations. The page is university employer text, not UCLA as a public-university treasury, a campus PAC, or University of California as a sibling string.

Using the four internal links

Four hrefs cover the join: the 2008 overlay for this string, the UCLA industry hub, the 2008 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 $462,757 from 680 contributions and 236 donors. Live pages can move. FEC.gov is the originating filing system. Citation order that preserves the join: dollars first ($462,757), then both keys (UCLA, 2008), then volume (680 contributions, 236 donors), then source (FEC.gov). Restating the join without new numbers: UCLA in 2008 is $462,757 from 680 itemized individual contributions and 236 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $7,408,907 across cycles, so 2008 is about 6.2% and other windows hold $6,946,150 (93.8%). The grouping is university employer text, not UCLA as a public-university treasury, a campus PAC, or University of California as a sibling string. 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 $681; mean per donor about $1,961; about 2.9 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2008 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $462,757.

Questions

How much did UCLA donors give in 2008?

The UCLA × 2008 cell is $462,757. FEC.gov counted 680 itemized individual contributions from 236 unique donors. That is the join, not the $7,408,907 lifetime grouping total and not a committee disbursement. FEC.gov is the source for $462,757, 680 contributions, and 236 donors in the UCLA × 2008 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,408,907.

What share of UCLA FEC money is 2008?

About 6.2%. $462,757 divided by $7,408,907 is the 2008 share for this exact string. $6,946,150 (93.8%) sits in other cycles. No national 2008 denominator is in the packet. FEC.gov is the source for $462,757, 680 contributions, and 236 donors in the UCLA × 2008 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,408,907.

Does this include only UCLA faculty and staff?

No. 236 unique donors matched UCLA in 2008. Retirees, household members, and former workers can reuse the string. Neighboring spellings are other keys. The total remains $462,757. FEC.gov is the source for $462,757, 680 contributions, and 236 donors in the UCLA × 2008 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,408,907.

Where is the overlay for the UCLA 2008 join?

The overlay path is the UCLA 2008 link. The industry hub drops the year. The 2008 election cycle drops the string. All FEC ties is the directory of joins. Dollars: $462,757. FEC.gov is the source for $462,757, 680 contributions, and 236 donors in the UCLA × 2008 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,408,907.