University Of Michigan and the 2008 FEC cycle

University Of Michigan is one axis; 2008 is the other

An industry-cycle page is not a restatement of University Of Michigan and not a restatement of 2008. It is the cell where they meet: $323,180, 542 contributions, 234 donors. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle are the source note.

On the employer side, University Of Michigan is public-university employer text. On the cycle side, 2008 is a two-year FEC window, not a single Election Day. Campus filers who typed a hospital, school, or U of M abbreviation sit in other keys. This cell is the stored employer UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN. Neighboring stored labels include U OF M, UMICH, UNIVERSITY OF MICH, MICHIGAN STATE, and named schools or hospitals on campus. LobbyVault does not merge those strings into $323,180. Gifts dated in either year of that window sit in $323,180.

Leaving either axis off the citation misstates the record. $6,962,522 is the lifetime University Of Michigan bucket. The 2008 hub is every grouping that year. The join is $323,180.

2008 is not the whole University Of Michigan story

University Of Michigan across all cycles is $6,962,522. University Of Michigan in 2008 is $323,180 — about 4.6%. The gap is $6,639,342. Closing that gap would require other cycle joins, which this packet does not list.

A reader who only opens the 2008 overlay still sees $323,180 for this string, not $6,962,522. A reader who only opens the industry hub still needs the year filter to recover $323,180. 2008 holds $323,180 of $6,962,522 for this string — about 4.6%. Other cycles hold $6,639,342 (95.4%). Folding those other cycles into a 2008 citation would misstate the record by $6,639,342.

What 234 unique donors are not

234 unique donors are not a census of University Of Michigan. They are the identities attached to 542 itemized rows that summed to $323,180. Mean gift $596; mean per donor $1,381; about 2.3 rows each.

Household reuse of a workplace string is common on FEC forms. That inflates neither $6,962,522 nor $323,180 with extra companies; it can inflate donor counts relative to a strict employee roster that this table does not have. 542 itemized contributions from 234 donors produced the cell. Unique donors are contributor keys, not employees counted by HR. This file does not invent names for those 234 identities.

How FEC cycle 2008 works on this join

Cycle 2008 is the second key in the join. Combined with UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN, it produces $323,180. Combined with nothing, it is the year hub. Combined with a different string, it is a different tie.

Itemized receipts in either year of the window are in scope. Unitemized receipts are not. Independent expenditures are not. Those exclusions apply regardless of University Of Michigan. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov. The 2008 hub without University Of Michigan is a different page. The University Of Michigan hub without 2008 is a different page. Only the overlap is $323,180.

Outside $323,180: PACs, unitemized, awards

Outside $323,180: unitemized individual gifts, independent expenditures, PAC spending, and any federal award table. Inside $323,180: itemized individual receipts matching UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN in cycle 2008.

The page is public-university employer text, not a campus PAC, a University of Michigan treasury gift, or Michigan State as a sibling campus string. Naming those exclusions keeps the join from being read as a company political budget. Self-reported employer text splits across spellings. UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN is the key used here. Related titles and legal names are other keys and are not added into $323,180 or $6,962,522.

Snapshot versus live overlay

JSON copy is written once from a packet. Hubs can refresh. If University Of Michigan 2008 on the site shows a different total than $323,180, use the live overlay and FEC.gov. The canonical path for this explanation is the ties URL in the packet.

The body facts remain: UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN × 2008 = $323,180, 542 contributions, 234 donors, 4.6% of $6,962,522. No other dollars are authorized. Use All FEC ties to find other two-dimension pages. Use University Of Michigan 2008 for rows. This prose stays inside packet facts: $323,180, 542, 234, 4.6% of $6,962,522.

Questions

How much did University Of Michigan donors give in 2008?

$323,180 is the itemized-individual total for UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN in 2008. Volume: 542 contributions, 234 donors. Source FEC.gov. PAC spending and unitemized gifts are outside the cell. FEC.gov is the source for $323,180, 542 contributions, and 234 donors in the University Of Michigan × 2008 cell.

What share of University Of Michigan FEC money is 2008?

2008 holds $323,180 of the $6,962,522 stored for University Of Michigan, roughly 4.6%. The leftover $6,639,342 is other windows on the University Of Michigan hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $323,180, 542 contributions, and 234 donors in the University Of Michigan × 2008 cell.

Does this include only University Of Michigan faculty and staff?

The grouping is public-university employer text, not a verified roster. 542 itemized lines from 234 donors produced $323,180 in 2008. Employment status is not a field in this aggregate. FEC.gov is the source for $323,180, 542 contributions, and 234 donors in the University Of Michigan × 2008 cell.

Where is the overlay for the University Of Michigan 2008 join?

Use the four packet hrefs: University Of Michigan 2008, University Of Michigan, 2008 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Live overlay rows sit on the first of those. This file explains $323,180 as the join. FEC.gov is the source for $323,180, 542 contributions, and 234 donors in the University Of Michigan × 2008 cell.