Yale University 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 — Yale University and 2008 — sum to $427,392. The cell holds 487 itemized contributions and 174 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 Yale University hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Faculty, staff, and others who typed Yale University as employer in 2008 produced 487 lines from 174 donors. The university as an institution is not the payor. Student status is not certified. YALE without University can sit on a shorter key. YALE, YALE UNIV, and YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE or similar school-level strings are other keys if stored separately.

8.6% of the Yale University roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,982,646 ($5.0 million). The 2008 slice of $427,392 is about 8.6% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 91.4%. Treating 2008 as the Yale University FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $4,982,646 as the denominator for the 8.6% 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 $4,982,646.

487 contributions from 174 donors

Dividing $427,392 by 487 contributions yields about $878 per itemized gift. Dividing by 174 donors yields about $2,456 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.8. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

174 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 Yale University 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Yale University 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 Yale University to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $427,392 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 487 contributions, the 174 unique donors, and the 8.6% share of $4,982,646.

University text, not a campus PAC

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $427,392. 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 Yale 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, 174 donors, and 487 contributions. YALE, YALE UNIV, and YALE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE or similar school-level strings are other keys if stored separately. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Yale University and 2008 together

Start with $427,392, then Yale University 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Yale University, 2008, $427,392, 487 contributions, 174 donors, 8.6% of $4,982,646, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 8.6% share, the 174-donor count, and the $878 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 Yale University donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $427,392 in itemized individual contributions for the Yale University grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 487 contributions and 174 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,982,646 all-cycle figure.

What share of Yale University FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,982,646. The 2008 cell of $427,392 is about 8.6% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 91.4% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Yale University hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Yale University’s institutional PAC or endowment?

No. $427,392 is contributor disclosures that listed Yale University as employer. The university as an institution is not the payor. Endowment figures and research awards are different datasets. 174 donors are text matches, not a faculty census. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Yale University hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Yale University 2008 join?

Open Yale University 2008 for the cycle overlay, Yale University 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.