University of Pennsylvania and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Campus employer string × 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — University of Pennsylvania and 2008 — sum to $354,276. The cell holds 483 itemized contributions and 213 unique donors. 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 Pennsylvania hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Two hundred thirteen donors listed University of Pennsylvania in 2008 across 483 lines. Penn as a three-letter shorthand is a different key if filers used it. Health-system suffixes can split medical staff into a neighboring bucket. This join stays on the spelled-out campus string. UPENN, U OF PENNSYLVANIA, PENN, and UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM are other keys if stored separately.

7.4% of the University of Pennsylvania roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,780,435 ($4.8 million). The 2008 slice of $354,276 is about 7.4% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.6%. Treating 2008 as the University of Pennsylvania FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $4,780,435 as the denominator for the 7.4% 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 2008 from being folded silently into $4,780,435.

483 contributions from 213 donors

Dividing $354,276 by 483 contributions yields about $733 per itemized gift. Dividing by 213 donors yields about $1,663 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.3. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

213 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 Pennsylvania 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. University of Pennsylvania is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and University of Pennsylvania to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $354,276 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 483 contributions, the 213 unique donors, and the 7.4% share of $4,780,435.

University text, not a campus PAC

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $354,276. 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.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 213 donors, and 483 contributions. UPENN, U OF PENNSYLVANIA, PENN, and UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA HEALTH SYSTEM are other keys if stored separately. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing University of Pennsylvania and 2008 together

Start with $354,276, then University of Pennsylvania 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: University of Pennsylvania, 2008, $354,276, 483 contributions, 213 donors, 7.4% of $4,780,435, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 7.4% share, the 213-donor count, and the $733 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 Pennsylvania donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $354,276 in itemized individual contributions for the University of Pennsylvania grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 483 contributions and 213 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,780,435 all-cycle figure.

What share of University of Pennsylvania FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,780,435. The 2008 cell of $354,276 is about 7.4% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.6% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the University of Pennsylvania hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

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

No. $354,276 is contributor disclosures that listed University of Pennsylvania as employer. The university as an institution is not the payor. Endowment figures and research awards are different datasets. 213 donors are text matches, not a faculty census. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the University of Pennsylvania hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the University of Pennsylvania 2008 join?

Open University of Pennsylvania 2008 for the cycle overlay, University of Pennsylvania for the grouping hub, and the 2008 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.