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CITIGROUP money in federal elections

Contributors who listed CITIGROUP on federal itemized receipts account for $5,622,076, according to FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The cluster is 12,695 contributions from 811 donors. CITIGROUP is a holding-company brand as typed, not a NAICS commercial-banking total, not Citigroup’s PAC, and not every affiliate spelling such as CITIBANK, CITI, or CITIGROUP INC. Unitemized gifts stay outside the $5,622,076.

Key figures

  • CITIGROUP as FEC employer text totals $5,622,076 from 811 donors.
  • 12,695 contribution lines sit under that holding-company brand.
  • CITIBANK and CITI are separate FEC keys if stored that way.
  • The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS industry or company PAC total.

Holding-company brand, not every Citi affiliate

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. CITIGROUP is the nine-letter form as stored. The $5,622,076 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not deposit-market share, not a Federal Reserve holding-company report, and not a NAICS rollup of all bank employers. People who typed CITIBANK, CITI, CITIGROUP INC, or a country-desk name sit in other rows if stored that way.

The FEC field is not a human-resources file across consumer, markets, and operations payrolls. Alumni who still type CITIGROUP remain in the 811. LobbyVault does not recode those affiliate spellings into this key. Occupation pages show titles stored beside the brand.

811 donors and 12,695 lines

811 unique donors produced 12,695 CITIGROUP contribution lines totaling $5,622,076. That is on the order of 16 itemized receipts per donor — fewer repeats than a high-volume payroll PAC pattern, still more than a one-gift-per-person file. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a split among investment banking, retail, and corporate staff.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the company’s committee PAC filings are outside the $5,622,076 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Coverage is federal itemized individual receipts only.

Bank-name siblings on the industry index

Other large-bank employer strings are separate keys. Combining them with CITIGROUP would mix holding-company text with retail-brand and ticker-style labels. This page stays at $5,622,076 for CITIGROUP only.

BANKER, ANALYST, and MANAGING DIRECTOR as occupation-style keys still hold staff who omitted the firm name. Occupation breakdowns are the place to inspect those titles. State filings are omitted from the $5,622,076.

Donor table

The CITIGROUP donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a consent order, a trading desk, or a motive to that line. The 811 unique-person count is not an employee headcount from the holding company.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the bank string. Repeat names among 12,695 lines from 811 people are expected. People who typed CITIBANK instead are not in these 811 unless a receipt also grouped to CITIGROUP.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $5,622,076, 12,695 contributions, 811 donors, top employer CITIGROUP. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Compare other industry keys on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles stored next to this employer.

Keep CITIGROUP’s $5,622,076, 12,695 contributions, and 811 donors on this holding-company brand. CITIBANK, CITI, unitemized gifts, and committee PAC documents stay on their own records. The donor table lists disclosed recipients without converting the string into a NAICS finance total.

Holding-company receipts versus bank PAC filings

The $5,622,076 total is itemized individual receipts grouped to CITIGROUP. It is not a holding-company treasury contribution and not a committee PAC sum. Unitemized gifts stay out. CITIBANK and CITI remain other keys if stored that way, even when the same person appears on those other pages.

811 unique donors produced 12,695 lines. About 16 receipts per person is a lighter repeat pattern than high-volume payroll keys near this dollar band. The packet still does not publish a mean gift or a consumer-versus-markets split. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside the holding-company brand.

Use the donor table to inspect disclosed recipients. Use the industry index to compare other bank strings. This guide does not convert CITIGROUP into a NAICS finance total and does not assign party percentages. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, self-reported employer text.

Keep CITIGROUP’s 811 donors and 12,695 lines on the holding-company brand. CITIBANK and CITI remain other keys. The donor table lists disclosed recipients for the $5,622,076 only.

Questions

How much have CITIGROUP-listed donors given federally?
LobbyVault attributes $5,622,076 to the CITIGROUP employer string, from 12,695 contributions and 811 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the company’s PAC and not a NAICS banking 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 Citigroup corporate political spending?
No. The $5,622,076 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to CITIGROUP. 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 Citibank or Citi employees?
Only if the grouped employer text is CITIGROUP. CITIBANK and CITI are separate keys if stored that way. A receipt counted here carries the holding-company brand. Staff who typed only BANKER sit in occupation-style rows instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
How many unique donors listed CITIGROUP?
The rollup counts 811 donors and 12,695 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.

Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.