UCLA and the 2012 FEC election cycle

UCLA as stored text, 2012 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — UCLA and 2012 — sum to $566,073. 782 itemized contributions and 203 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. 2012 is a presidential even-year window; that fact describes the FEC calendar, not which contests received the money.

Neither the UCLA hub nor the 2012 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. UCLA is stored form text, not a verified employer file. 203 donors and 782 lines in 2012 matched that word. People who typed a school, medical center, or UC system name instead of UCLA sit in other buckets. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES, UC LOS ANGELES, and other UC campuses are other keys. This page is the exact grouped string UCLA as stored.

7.6% of the UCLA roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $7,408,907. The 2012 slice of $566,073 is about 7.6% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.4%. Treating 2012 as the UCLA FEC story would ignore that remainder. The share is a scale check, not a peak-year ranking and not proof of a coordinated program.

Treat $7,408,907 as the denominator for the 7.6% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, not assets under management, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2012 from being folded silently into $7,408,907. Federal awards in other databases remain a different dataset; sharing a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants.

782 contributions from 203 donors

Dividing $566,073 by 782 contributions yields about $724 per itemized gift. Dividing by 203 donors yields about $2,789 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.9. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians, not a party split, and not a typical-gift claim. The stored key is the four-letter campus string as grouped; other UC campuses stay out.

203 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 UCLA 2012 holds the rows. Recipients can include candidate committees, party committees, leadership PACs, and Super PACs; this join does not split those buckets in the headline facts.

2012 as the cycle dimension

The 2012 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. UCLA is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2012 election cycle to drop the employer filter and UCLA to drop the year. Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $566,073 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 782 contributions, the 203 unique donors, and the 7.6% share of $7,408,907. Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 203 donors, and 782 contributions.

Titles the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $566,073. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES, UC LOS ANGELES, and other UC campuses are other keys. People who typed a school, medical center, or UC system name instead of UCLA are counted elsewhere unless the treasurer grouped them to this exact string. The stored key is the four-letter campus string as grouped; other UC campuses stay out. The page is not a University of California system total and not a campus PAC.

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. UCLA is the spelling as committees stored it. Researchers who want a combined family of neighboring labels must recode after export. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not attach a motive, a client matter, or a federal award to the $566,073 cell.

Citing UCLA and 2012 together

Start with $566,073, then UCLA 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: UCLA, 2012, $566,073, 782 contributions, 203 donors, 7.6% of $7,408,907, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 7.6% share, the 203-donor count, and the $724 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. The join exists because two tables meet; it is not a restatement of one hub.

Questions

How much did UCLA donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $566,073 in itemized individual contributions for the UCLA grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 782 contributions and 203 donors. That sum is not a PAC total, not an independent-expenditure total, and not the $7,408,907 all-cycle figure on the industry hub. Unitemized gifts sit outside this cell.

What share of UCLA FEC money is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $7,408,907. The 2012 cell of $566,073 is about 7.6% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.4% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the UCLA hub holds other cycles; the 2012 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only current UCLA employees or licensees?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string UCLA. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Neighboring spellings and titles sit in other groupings unless they were stored as this exact key. This join reports the string match for 2012 only, totaling $566,073 from 203 donors on 782 contribution lines.

Where is the overlay for the UCLA 2012 join?

Open UCLA 2012 for the cycle overlay, UCLA for the grouping hub, and the 2012 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.