BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY as FEC employer text: $6.9 million

Class I letterhead, not a generic railroad code

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY is the company name as stored on individual receipts. The $6,933,919 total is those itemized gifts. It is not freight revenue, not track-miles, and not a NAICS rollup of all railroads.

People who typed BNSF, BURLINGTON NORTHERN, SANTA FE, UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD, or CONDUCTOR without the company sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into this key.

Craft titles without the company name never enter this key. A conductor who typed CONDUCTOR is in that other row. The $6,933,919 total is BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY as grouped.

1,266 donors and 114,054 lines

1,266 unique donors produced 114,054 BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY contribution lines totaling $6,933,919. That is on the order of 90 itemized receipts per donor, with a smaller typical line than many partnership rows. Payroll PAC-style itemized patterns can produce that volume. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a craft split.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the railroad’s committee PAC filings are outside the $6,933,919 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear.

1,266 unique donors produced 114,054 lines. That density is the story of this string: many small itemized receipts, not a few large partnership gifts. Unitemized gifts still never appear.

Union Pacific as a sibling carrier string

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD is a separate employer-name key in this batch. Combining it with BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY would mix two FEC fields. This page stays at $6,933,919 for BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the railroad. ENGINEER as a locomotive craft, CONDUCTOR, and generic RAILROAD strings are other keys when donors skipped this company name.

Donor table

The BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a merger, a derailment docket, or a motive to that line. Former employees who still type the company share the string with current staff. The FEC field is not an HR file.

Repeat names are expected among 114,054 lines from 1,266 people. Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the railroad string.

114,054 BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY lines will show many modest repeating gifts. That is how itemized payroll-style receipts look in the FEC file. It is not 114,054 people. The unique-donor count is 1,266, and the dollar total is $6,933,919. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD names belong on that sibling page.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $6,933,919, 114,054 contributions, 1,266 donors, top employer BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts. State filings are omitted.

The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD on the industry index. Use occupation breakdowns for titles stored next to this employer.

114,054 lines still are not a railroad census

BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY’s $6,933,919 from 1,266 donors arrived with 114,054 contribution lines. That density is a payroll-style itemized pattern, not a headcount of operating employees. Repeat gifts and former staff who still type the company inflate the line count. The packet does not publish a craft split.

UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD is a separate carrier key. BNSF without RAILWAY COMPANY, BURLINGTON NORTHERN, and CONDUCTOR stay in other rows if stored that way. Unitemized gifts and the railroad’s PAC documents stay outside the $6,933,919 unless an individual receipt lists BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY.

The donor table lists disclosed names and committees. LobbyVault does not attach a merger or a derailment docket to a large gift. Follow committees for party and office. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS rail-transportation total.

Keep BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY’s $6,933,919, 114,054 contributions, and 1,266 donors on this railroad string. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD stays on its own page. Unitemized gifts and the railroad PAC remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside the company. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source, not a NAICS rail total.

Questions

How much have BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $6,933,919 to the BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY employer string, from 114,054 contributions and 1,266 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the railroad’s PAC and not a NAICS rail total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this BNSF corporate political spending?

No. The $6,933,919 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY. Corporate treasury and committee PAC filings are other FEC categories. LobbyVault does not fold those documents into this industry row. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Does this include Union Pacific employees?

No. UNION PACIFIC RAILROAD is a separate employer string with its own page. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY. Staff who typed only a craft title are in those other rows if stored that way. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY?

The rollup counts 1,266 donors and 114,054 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not an employee headcount from the railroad. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.