A front-page New York Times article about the group Gun Owners of America erroneously conflates the group and its allied political action committee, the Gun Owners of America, Inc. Political Victory Fund. It may be a fine distinction, but it is one worth preserving for legal reasons, as contributions directly to a candidate from a nonprofit group like Gun Owners of America (as opposed to from its political action committee) are considered not legal, even after the Citizens United decision that supposedly opened the floodgates.
So when the Times writes that Senator Ted Cruz "received donations from the group during his primary campaign" and that "its campaign contributions last year were $119,850," the organization the Times is talking about there is the Gun Owners of America Inc. Political Victory Fund, not Gun Owners of America. The article doesn't even mention the Political Victory Fund, referring only to Gun Owners of America.