University of California and the 2012 FEC election cycle

Campus employer string × 2012

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — University of California and 2012 — sum to $694,665. 1,049 itemized contributions and 325 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 University of California hub nor the 2012 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Three hundred twenty-five donors listed University of California in 2012 across 1,049 contribution lines — a broad campus-system employer cell. Campus-level strings such as UCLA sit next door if filers typed them. State of California is a different government key. Research awards on USAspending are not these receipts. UC BERKELEY, UCLA, UC SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, and UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MEDICAL CENTER are other keys if stored separately.

6.9% of the University of California roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $10,056,583 ($10.1 million). The 2012 slice of $694,665 is about 6.9% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.1%. Treating 2012 as the University of California FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $10,056,583 as the denominator for the 6.9% 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 2012 from being folded silently into $10,056,583.

1,049 contributions from 325 donors

Dividing $694,665 by 1,049 contributions yields about $662 per itemized gift. Dividing by 325 donors yields about $2,137 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.2. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

325 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 University of California 2012 holds the rows.

2012 as the cycle dimension

The 2012 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. University of California 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 University of California to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $694,665 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 1,049 contributions, the 325 unique donors, and the 6.9% share of $10,056,583.

University text, not a campus PAC

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $694,665. 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 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, 325 donors, and 1,049 contributions. UC BERKELEY, UCLA, UC SAN FRANCISCO, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, and UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA MEDICAL CENTER are other keys if stored separately. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing University of California and 2012 together

Start with $694,665, then University of California 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: University of California, 2012, $694,665, 1,049 contributions, 325 donors, 6.9% of $10,056,583, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 6.9% share, the 325-donor count, and the $662 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 University of California donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $694,665 in itemized individual contributions for the University of California grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 1,049 contributions and 325 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $10,056,583 all-cycle figure.

What share of University of California FEC money is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $10,056,583. The 2012 cell of $694,665 is about 6.9% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.1% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the University of California hub holds other cycles; the 2012 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this University of California’s institutional PAC or endowment?

No. $694,665 is contributor disclosures that listed University of California as employer. The university as an institution is not the payor. Endowment figures and research awards are different datasets. 325 donors are text matches, not a faculty census. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the University of California hub holds other cycles; the 2012 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the University of California 2012 join?

Open University of California 2012 for the cycle overlay, University of California 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.