Penn State University

The Pennsylvania State University (Penn State) is a multicampus state-related, land-grant, space-grant public research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania, in the United States.

Source: Wikipedia

Campaign Finance

$708,877 Given
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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.

covers through Q3 2012
  • 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 Penn State University Sources: OpenSecrets.org FollowTheMoney.org

Lobbying

$3,670,000 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.

covers roughly through Q4, 2012

Lobbying on Behalf of Penn State University

View all lobbying data for Penn State University Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

Mentioned in 454 dockets; Submitted to 22 dockets
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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 daily from Regulations.gov by way of Docket Wrench

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

Earmarks

$6,509,000 Received
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Figures are based on both committee earmark disclosures and on analysis of appropriations bill text. Table shows top 10 earmarks, ordered by dollar amount in the final version of the bill.

For more information, see our Earmark Methodology page.

Top Earmarks

Fiscal Year Amount Description
2008 $5,600,000 Penn State University: Medical Development -- Penn State Cancer Institute
2008 $587,000 Penn State University: Milk Safety, PA
2008 $248,000 Penn State University: Agricultural Entrepreneurial Alternatives, PA
2008 $74,000 Penn State University: Center for Dairy Excellence, PA
View all earmarks data for Penn State University

Advisory Committees

195 people on 91 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.

covers through 2011

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

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle National Science Foundation 163 people on 67 committees
  • Toggle Department of Health and Human Services 18 people on 10 committees
  • Toggle Department of Defense 5 people on 5 committees
  • Toggle National Aeronautics and Space Administration 2 people on 3 committees
  • Toggle Department of Transportation 3 people on 1 committee
  • Toggle Environmental Protection Agency 3 people on 3 committees
  • Toggle National Endowment for the Humanities 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle Department of Agriculture 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for Penn State University