University of Chicago

The University of Chicago (U of C, UC, or simply UChicago) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by the American Baptist Education Society with a major donation from oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890. William Rainey Harper became the university's first president, in 1891, and the first classes were held in 1892. It has a reputation of devotion to academic scholarship and intellectualism and is affiliated with scores of Rhodes Scholars and 85 Nobel Prize laureates.

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Campaign Finance

$175,942 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.

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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.

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  • 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 University of Chicago Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Lobbying

$148,108 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 University of Chicago

View all lobbying data for University of Chicago Sources: OpenSecrets.org

Regulations

46 Mentions; 3 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 "University of Chicago" in public comments on proposed federal regulations.

  • Documents Submitted by the Organization
    • Submissions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 1 HHS HIPAA Privacy Rule Accounting of Disclosures under the Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health Act 2011
    • Toggle 1 FWS Removal of the U.S. Captive-bred Inter-subspecific crossed or generic Tiger From the Exemption to Register Under the Captive-bred Wildlife Regulations 2011
    • Toggle 1 HHSIG Solicitation of New Safe Harbors and Special Fraud Alerts 2011
  • Mentions in Document Text
    • Mentions
    • Agency
    • Docket
    • Date
    • Toggle 13 FWS Revise the List of Endangered and Threatened Wildlife for the Gray Wolf ( Canis lupus ) in the Eastern United States 2011
    • Toggle 6 NLRB Proposed rule amending representation-case procedures 2011
    • Toggle 4 OCC Credit Risk Retention by Securitizers 2011
    • Toggle 4 FWS Lethal Take of Wolves in the West Fork Elk Management Unit of Montana 2011
    • Toggle 3 FWS Environmental Assessment: Authorization of Idaho Fish and Game plan for lethal control of wolves to reduce ungulate depredation in Lolo Elk Management Zone, Idaho 2011
    • Toggle 3 EPA Integrated Science Assessment for Ozone and Other Photochemical Oxidants 2011
    • Toggle 3 APHIS Monsanto Co.; Availability of Petition, Plant Pest Risk Assessment, and Environmental Assessment for Determination of Nonregulated Status for Corn Genetically Engineered for Drought Tolerance 2011
    • Toggle 2 EPA Nominations to the FIFRA Scientific Advisory Panel; Request for Comments 2011
    • Toggle 2 DOJ National Standards To Prevent, Detect, and Respond to Prison Rape 2011
    • Toggle 2 EPA Draft Guidance on Identifying Waters Protected by the Clean Water Act 2011

Federal Spending

36 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
 University Of Chicago 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services MOLECULAR ANALYSES AND INTERVENTIONS FOR BIODEFENSE AND EMERGING PATHOGENS $6,483,650
grant
 University Of Chicago 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services MIDWEST CENTER FOR STRUCTURAL GENOMICS $6,093,819
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 University Of Chicago 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services MEMBRANE PROTEIN STRUCTURAL DYNAMICS CONSORTIUM $4,489,203
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 University Of Chicago 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services CANCER CENTER SUPPORT GRANT $3,932,515
grant
 University Of Chicago 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services TRANSLATIONAL RESEARCH AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO (UL1) $3,688,836
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 University Of Chicago 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services RECOMBINANT ANTIBODY NETWORK $3,233,417
grant
 University Of Chicago 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services CHICAGO SYSTEMS BIOLOGY CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF TRANSCRIPTIONAL NETWORKS $2,892,649
grant
 University Of Chicago 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services ROLE OF SPHINGOLIPIDS IN THE PATHOBIOLOGY OF LUNG INJURY $2,366,349
grant
 University Of Chicago 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services INTEGRATIVE CONSEQUENCES OF HYPOXIA $2,255,683
grant
 University Of Chicago 2011 Department Of Health And Human Services CONTE CENTER FOR COMPUTATIONAL SYSTEMS GENOMICS OF NEUROPSYCHIATRIC PHENOTYPES $2,150,000
View all grant & loan data for University of Chicago View all contract data for University of Chicago Sources: USASpending.gov

Advisory Committees

87 people on 51 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 "University of Chicago" that sat on federal advisory committees.

  • Agency
  • Representation
  • Toggle National Science Foundation 53 people on 22 committees
  • Toggle Department of Health and Human Services 14 people on 13 committees
  • Toggle National Endowment for the Humanities 7 people on 2 committees
  • Toggle Department of Energy 3 people on 2 committees
  • Toggle Department of Commerce 2 people on 3 committees
  • Toggle Environmental Protection Agency 2 people on 2 committees
  • Toggle National Endowment for the Arts 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle Department of Veterans Affairs 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle Department of the Interior 1 person on 1 committee
  • Toggle Department of State 1 person on 1 committee
View all advisory committee data for University of Chicago