APPLE money in federal elections

Short brand, not a consumer-electronics sector

Six hundred sixty-seven unique donors produced 16,721 contributions totaling $4,167,407. About 25 itemized gifts per person and a mean gift near $249 describe the arithmetic. APPLE INC, APPLE COMPUTER, and APPLE CORPORATION can exist as other keys. They are not inside $4,167,407 unless they grouped to APPLE.

Top employer matches APPLE. The FEC field records what was typed, not a securities-filing legal name. LobbyVault does not recode APPLE INC into this short brand. Researchers who want a combined Apple family must recode after export.

667 donors and 16,721 lines

16,721 lines from 667 people is a thick receipt pattern. Mean per donor is about $6,248. Repeat payroll deductions can inflate contribution counts without raising unique donors. The packet does not publish a hardware-versus-services split.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the company’s committee PAC filings are outside the $4,167,407 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear.

APPLE INC and other tech brands stay separate

APPLE INC, MICROSOFT, GOOGLE, and ENGINEER are separate employer-name or title keys. Combining them with APPLE would mix distinct FEC fields. This page reports $4,167,407 for APPLE only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the brand. SOFTWARE ENGINEER and ENGINEER exist as industry keys when donors put the function in the employer box instead of APPLE.

Donor table without product inference

The APPLE donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a product line, a App Store ranking, or a motive to that line. Alumni who still type the short brand share the string with current staff. The FEC field is not an HR file.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This guide does not assign a partisan percentage to the brand. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts only.

Source

Industry APPLE; $4,167,407; 16,721 contributions; 667 donors; top employer APPLE. Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Unitemized gifts and company PAC documents are omitted. About 25 itemized gifts per person and a mean gift near $249 are arithmetic on the packet. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS computer-manufacturing total.

Short APPLE versus APPLE INC

APPLE keyed $4.2M from 16,721 contributions and 667 donors. APPLE INC remains a longer legal-name page if it exists as another key. The 667 unique donors are matching text, not a headcount of the company’s workforce. Occupation breakdowns list titles stored beside the brand.

Keep $4,167,407 on this four-letter string. MICROSOFT and GOOGLE stay on their own pages. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. Unitemized gifts remain omitted.

Read $4,167,407 as the short APPLE brand cluster only. The 16,721 contributions and 667 donors are matching-text counts on FEC.gov via LobbyVault. About 25 gifts per person, a mean gift near $249, and about $6,248 per donor are packet arithmetic. A thick receipt file is consistent with repeat itemized gifts; the packet does not publish a hardware-versus-services split. Unitemized gifts and company PAC filings sit outside the $4.2M unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. APPLE INC, APPLE COMPUTER, MICROSOFT, and ENGINEER remain other keys.

LobbyVault does not recode APPLE INC into this four-letter brand. The FEC field is not a securities-filing legal name and not a NAICS computer-manufacturing total. Occupation breakdowns list titles stored beside APPLE. SOFTWARE ENGINEER remains a title key when the function filled the employer box. The donor table lists disclosed names and committees without attaching a product line. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Open the APPLE donor table for line-level detail. All industries lists other tech-employer strings without merging them here.

Questions

How much have APPLE-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $4,167,407 to the APPLE employer string, from 16,721 contributions and 667 donors. These are itemized individual receipts on FEC.gov, not the company’s PAC and not a NAICS computer-manufacturing total. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is APPLE INC included?

Only if those receipts grouped to the short APPLE key. APPLE INC as a longer legal string is a separate grouped key if filers used it. The $4.2M total is receipts whose employer text grouped to APPLE. LobbyVault does not merge legal-suffix variants into this row. Unitemized gifts are omitted.

Does this include Microsoft employees?

No. MICROSOFT is a separate employer string. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text APPLE. Staff who typed only ENGINEER or SOFTWARE ENGINEER are in those title rows instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed APPLE?

The rollup counts 667 donors and 16,721 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not an employee headcount from the company. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.