The phrase "aggregate donations" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to the total amount of donations collected from various sources or individuals.
Example: "The charity reported that their aggregate donations for the year exceeded expectations, allowing them to fund several new projects."
Alternatives: "total donations" or "combined donations".
Based on the FEC's aggregate donation rule, it limited him to donating to 18 candidates.
The upshot is that particular businesses, primarily but not exclusively real estate development companies, can turbocharge their political giving by aggregating donations from LLCs they control.
In time, they learned that platforms like Network for Good and AmazonSmile are much more powerful engines for aggregating donations than trying to drive traffic to your own site.
The case was brought by Alabama businessman Shaun McCutcheon and the Republican National Committee, who argued that Watergate-era restrictions on aggregate campaign donations were unconstitutional.
A lack of aggregate contribution limits would free, say, House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) to accept a $2.5 million donation that could be distributed to Republican candidates in each of the 435 House districts as well as the national GOP committees.
As Joshua Miller of the White House Office of Digital Strategy points out, the idea was to aggregate relatively small donations into a much bigger package of aid.
There are no aggregate figures for donations and legacies by members of colleges, but research by the Higher Education Policy Unit some years ago put the average annual philanthropic income of the Oxbridge colleges for 2004-07 at a minimum of £120m.
The McCutcheon ruling also did away with the aggregate limit on donations to political action committees, or PACs, which can give money directly to candidates.
McCutcheon v. FEC challenges the aggregate limit on donations to federal candidates, political parties and political action committees, which bars an individual donor from giving more than $123,200 in total during the 2014 election cycle.
Federal laws that trace back to those upheld by the Supreme Court in a 1976 case limited individual contributions to a specific candidate to $2,500 a year and total contributions to all federal candidates to $46,200 over two years; together with a $70,800 aggregate national committee donation limit, the law established the $117,000 ceiling.
