Boston University

Boston University (BU) is a private research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The university is historically affiliated with the United Methodist Church, but describes itself as nonsectarian. With more than 4,000 faculty members and more than 31,000 students, Boston University is one of the largest private universities in the United States and one of Boston's largest employers.

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

$87,152 Given
Information

Figures are based on itemized contributions reported to the Federal Election Commission and state agencies. Please note that:

  • contributions under $200 are not reported, and so are not included in totals.
  • only contributions from individuals and organizations to candidates are included. Various accounting measures and more exotic contribution types are excluded.
  • contributions are matched based on organization and recipient name reported within each election cycle. Contributions using an incorrect or non-standard version of the name may be missed.
  • corporate name changes and mergers may cause figures to differ from those of the Center for Responsive Politics.
  • organization totals include known subsidiaries of the organization.

For more information, please see our campaign finance methodology page. Lobbyist bundling data is described on our lobbyist bundling methodology page.

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  • Top Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.

  • Republicans vs. Democrats

    in dollars. "Other" includes 3rd parties and organizations without official party affiliation.

  • State vs. Federal

    in dollars

  • Top PAC Recipients

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    Includes contributions from the organization’s employees, their family members, and its political action committee.
View all campaign finance data for Boston University Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$720,000 Spent
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Figures are based on lobbying activity reported to the Senate Office of Public Records. Reported dollar amounts are required to be accurate only to the nearest $20,000. For organizations whose primary business is lobbying, we display total income and top clients. For organizations that are not primarily lobbying firms, we display total amount spent on lobbying and top lobbying firms hired.

For more information, please see our lobbying methodology page.

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Lobbying On Behalf of Boston University

View all lobbying data for Boston University Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

25 Mentions; 2 Submissions
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All data is based on documents downloaded from Regulations.gov. The first table shows mentions: all documents that include the name of the company anywhere in the document or document metadata. The second table shows submissions: all documents where the submitter metadata included the company name. Each table shows the top 10 dockets, ranked by number of occurrences.

Matches are based on a search for the company name. Variations in the company name, such as acronyms, nicknames or alternate names may cause documents to be missed. The mention of a company name in a document may be incidental and does not necessarily indicate that the company has any relevance to the document. Company names that are common English words may erroneously match with text that is not referring to the company.

Not all agencies submit public comments to Regulations.gov. For a list of participating and non-participating agencies see here. Agencies that do submit to Regulations.gov have varying levels of accuracy and completeness.

Regulations and public comments can be downloaded in bulk here.

updated from Regulations.gov on September 27, 2011

The tables show occurrences of "Boston University" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

  • Documents Submitted by the Organization
    • Submissions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 1 CDC Draft Action Plan – A Public Health Action Plan to Combat Antimicrobial- Resistance 2011
    • Toggle 1 FDA Food Labeling; Nutrition Labeling of Standard Menu Items in Restaurants and Similar Retail Food Establishments 2011
  • Mentions in Document Text
    • Mentions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 3 EPA Human Studies Review Board Meeting 2011
    • Toggle 3 EPA Phosphorus Water Quality Standards for Florida Everglades 2011
    • Toggle 2 CDC Guidelines for Determining Probability of Causation under the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of 2000; Revision of Guidelines on Non-Radiogenic Cancers 2011
    • Toggle 1 EPA Promoting Community Integrated Pest Management (IPM) to Prevent Tick-Borne Diseases 2011
    • Toggle 1 OCC Credit Risk Retention by Securitizers 2011
    • Toggle 1 FDA Food Labeling; Nutrition Labeling of Standard Menu Items in Restaurants and Similar Retail Food Establishments 2011
    • Toggle 1 FCC Meetings; Sunshine Act 2011
    • Toggle 1 EPA NESHAP for Secondary Lead Smelting Amendments Based on the Risk and Technology Review 2011
    • Toggle 1 FDA Food Safety and Inspection Service 2011
    • Toggle 1 FRS Formations of, Acquisitions by, and Mergers of Bank Holding Companies 2011

Federal Spending

24 grants
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Federal grants, contracts and loans are reported by federal agencies using the FPDS and FAADS systems. The data is made available to the public at USASpending.gov. Please note that the completeness and quality of the data varies greatly by agency.

Only grants, contracts and loans with amounts over $1 million are shown.

Because company names are not reported in a standardized manner, we cannot reliably determine the company receiving the contract or award. The results shown here are based on a search for the company name. Individual records may be missed or erroneously included because of name variations. For more information, please see our federal spending methodology page.

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Note: Company names in federal spending data are not standardized. The table below is included only as a sample of what is available in the data and has not been reviewed for accuracy or completeness. To investigate the data further, use the links at the bottom of the table.

Type Recipient Name Year Agency Description Amount
grant
 Boston University 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services NATIONAL EMERGING INFECTIOUS DISEASES LABORATORIES OPERATIONS $11,000,000
grant
 Boston University 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services BOSTON UNIVERSITY CLINICAL AND TRANSLATIONAL SCIENCE AWARD (CTSA) PROGRAM UL1 $3,484,610
grant
 Boston University 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services MONOCLONAL ANTIBODY-BASED MULTIPURPOSE MICROBICIDES $3,033,249
grant
 Boston University 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services NATIONAL TRAINING AND TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE $2,499,975
grant
 Boston University 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services DETERMINANTS OF CELL FATE AND DIFFERENTIATION IN THE DEVELOPING LUNG $2,373,599
grant
 Boston University 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services CENTER FOR RESEARCH TO EVALUATE & ELIMINATE DENTAL DISPARITIES $2,293,172
grant
 Boston University 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services COMPLEX CHEMOTYPES: DISCOVERY, METHODOLOGY, AND LIBRARY EXPANSION $2,129,090
grant
 Boston University 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services METABOLIC CONTROL OF ENDOTHELIAS CELL PHENOTYPE $2,032,997
grant
 Boston University 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services A PROPOSAL TO SUPPORT DISTRICT-LEVEL IMPLEMENTATION OF THE ZAMBIA MINISTRY OF HEA $1,975,000
grant
 Boston University 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services NEURAL SUBSTRATES OF COGNITIVE DECLINE IN AGING MONKEYS $1,820,862
View all grant & loan data for Boston University View all contract data for Boston University Sources: USASpending.gov

Advisory Committees

69 people on 38 committees
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Data is based on disclosures required by the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA). Matches are based on the occurrence of the company name in the committee member affiliation. Variations in company names may cause some matches to be missed.

The table shows only the top 10 agencies. To search and download raw records from the complete dataset see the FACA data section.

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Table shows employees of "Boston University" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle National Science Foundation 51 people on 26 committees
  • Toggle National Endowment for the Humanities 8 people on 2 committees
  • Toggle Department of Health and Human Services 4 people on 3 committees
  • Toggle Department of Energy 2 people on 3 committees
  • Toggle Department of Veterans Affairs 2 people on 2 committees
  • Toggle National Aeronautics and Space Administration 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle Environmental Protection Agency 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for Boston University