BANK OF AMERICA as FEC employer text: $11.6 million

A bank legal name on Schedule A

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. BANK OF AMERICA is the three-word form as typed. The $11,582,158 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not Bank of America’s disclosed PAC spending, not deposit-market share, and not a NAICS 5221 rollup of all commercial banks.

People who typed BofA, BAC, MERRILL LYNCH (a wealth unit with its own key), BANKER, or BANK sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into BANK OF AMERICA.

2,033 donors and 72,433 lines

2,033 unique donors produced 72,433 BANK OF AMERICA contribution lines totaling $11,582,158. That is on the order of 36 itemized receipts per donor — high paperwork volume relative to the unique-person count. Recurring itemized gifts can produce that shape. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Unitemized gifts never appear. The company’s committee PAC filings are outside the $11,582,158.

Bank and broker siblings

MORGAN STANLEY, GOLDMAN SACHS, MERRILL LYNCH, and BANKER are separate keys. Combining them with BANK OF AMERICA would mix holding-company names and a generic title. This page stays at $11,582,158 for BANK OF AMERICA only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the bank. BANKER as an industry key still holds people who put the title in the employer box instead of the legal name.

Donor table

The BANK OF AMERICA donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a CFPB consent order, a branch map, or a motive to that line. Former employees who still type the brand share the string with current staff. The FEC field is not an HR export.

Repeat names among 72,433 lines from 2,033 people are expected. Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the firm string.

BANK OF AMERICA’s 72,433 lines from 2,033 donors totaling $11,582,158 should be kept next to MERRILL LYNCH, BANKER, MORGAN STANLEY, and GOLDMAN SACHS as separate keys. BofA and BAC, if stored separately, are other keys. Unitemized gifts and the company PAC stay out. Occupation pages show titles beside the three-word legal name. The donor table is not an HR export. Follow committees for party and office. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not NAICS 5221.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $11,582,158, 72,433 contributions, 2,033 donors, top employer BANK OF AMERICA. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS.

Compare MORGAN STANLEY, MERRILL LYNCH, and BANKER on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles next to this employer. Ticker spellings, if stored separately, are other keys.

Keep BANK OF AMERICA’s $11,582,158, 72,433 contributions, and 2,033 donors on this three-word firm string. MERRILL LYNCH and BANKER stay on their own pages. Unitemized gifts remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside BANK OF AMERICA. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source, not the company PAC and not NAICS 5221.

Holding-company name versus Merrill, Banker, and tickers

BANK OF AMERICA’s $11,582,158 from 2,033 donors and 72,433 lines is the three-word legal-name grouping, not NAICS commercial banking and not call-report assets. MERRILL LYNCH is a separate wealth-unit key already on the industry index. BANKER is a generic title row ($13,677,025, 713 donors). MORGAN STANLEY and GOLDMAN SACHS are other firm names. People who typed BofA or BAC sit in other rows if stored that way.

The 72,433 lines imply on the order of 36 itemized receipts per unique donor. Unitemized gifts, state filings, independent expenditures that lack this employer string, and the company’s PAC reports are outside the $11,582,158. Alumni who still type BANK OF AMERICA remain in the 2,033. The FEC field is not an HR export.

The donor table lists disclosed names and committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not a CFPB-order inference. Occupation pages show titles beside the bank. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault — $11,582,158, 72,433 contributions, 2,033 donors — self-reported employer text, not NAICS 5221.

Questions

How much have BANK OF AMERICA-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $11,582,158 to the BANK OF AMERICA employer string, from 72,433 contributions and 2,033 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the company’s PAC and not a NAICS banking total. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Is this Bank of America corporate political spending?

No. The $11,582,158 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to BANK OF AMERICA. Corporate treasury and committee PAC filings are other FEC categories. LobbyVault does not fold those documents into this industry row. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Does this include Merrill Lynch or everyone titled BANKER?

No. MERRILL LYNCH and BANKER are separate strings with their own pages. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text BANK OF AMERICA. Staff who typed only BANKER are in that title row instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Why so many contributions from 2,033 donors?

The 72,433 lines include repeat gifts from the same 2,033 people — on the order of 36 itemized receipts per donor. Recurring itemized programs raise the line count. The FEC field is transactional, not a once-per-employee census. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.