COMCAST money in federal elections

Short brand, not a cable-sector recode

Five hundred fifty-four unique donors produced 16,513 contributions totaling $3,674,669. About 30 itemized gifts per person and a mean gift near $223 describe the arithmetic. COMCAST CORPORATION, COMCAST CABLE, COMCAST NBCUNIVERSAL, and XFINITY can exist as other keys. They are not inside $3,674,669 unless they grouped to the short COMCAST brand.

Top employer matches COMCAST. The FEC field records what was typed, not a securities-filing legal name. LobbyVault does not recode COMCAST CABLE or NBCUNIVERSAL into this short brand. Researchers who want a combined Comcast family must recode after export. A COMCAST CC OF WILLOW GROVE spelling exists as another regional key and is not assumed to sit inside $3,674,669.

554 donors and 16,513 lines

16,513 lines from 554 people is a thick receipt pattern. Mean per donor is about $6,633. Repeat payroll deductions can inflate contribution counts without raising unique donors. The packet does not publish a cable-versus-broadcast split or a cycle year.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the company’s committee PAC filings are outside the $3,674,669 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts only.

Comcast Corporation and NBCUniversal stay separate

COMCAST CORPORATION, NBCUNIVERSAL, VERIZON, and AT&T are separate employer-name keys. Combining them with COMCAST would mix a short brand, a legal-suffix spelling, a studio brand, and rival communications employers. This page reports $3,674,669 for COMCAST only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the brand. ENGINEER, TECHNICIAN, and EXECUTIVE exist as industry keys when donors put the function in the employer box instead of COMCAST. Those title rows are not assumed to contain Comcast staff who typed the brand.

Donor table without franchise inference

The COMCAST donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a franchise area, a spectrum license, 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. Repeat names among 16,513 lines from 554 people are expected. People who typed COMCAST CORPORATION are not in these 554 unless a receipt also grouped to COMCAST.

Source

Industry COMCAST; $3,674,669; 16,513 contributions; 554 donors; top employer COMCAST. 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 30 itemized gifts per person and a mean gift near $223 are arithmetic on the packet. Per-donor mean about $6,633 uses total divided by 554 people. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS cable total.

Short COMCAST versus Corporation, Cable, and NBCU

COMCAST keyed $3.7M from 16,513 contributions and 554 donors. COMCAST CORPORATION, COMCAST CABLE, and NBCUNIVERSAL remain other keys. The 554 unique donors are matching text, not a headcount of the company’s workforce. Occupation breakdowns list titles stored beside the brand.

Keep $3,674,669 on this short brand. VERIZON and AT&T stay on their own communications-employer pages. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. Unitemized gifts remain omitted.

Read $3,674,669 as the short COMCAST cluster only. About 30 gifts per person, a mean gift near $223, and about $6,633 per donor are packet arithmetic. A thick receipt file is consistent with repeat itemized gifts; the packet does not publish a cable-versus-studio split. Unitemized gifts and company PAC filings sit outside the $3.7M unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string.

LobbyVault does not recode COMCAST CORPORATION or NBCUNIVERSAL into this short brand. The FEC field is not a securities-filing legal name and not a NAICS programming total. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Open the COMCAST donor table for line-level detail. All industries lists other communications-employer strings without merging them here.

Questions

How much have COMCAST-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $3,674,669 to the COMCAST employer string, from 16,513 contributions and 554 donors. These are itemized individual receipts on FEC.gov, not the company’s PAC and not a NAICS cable total. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is COMCAST CORPORATION included?

Only if those receipts grouped to the short COMCAST key. COMCAST CORPORATION, COMCAST CABLE, and NBCUNIVERSAL as longer strings are separate grouped keys if filers used them. The $3.7M total is receipts whose employer text grouped to COMCAST. LobbyVault does not merge those variants into this row. Unitemized gifts are omitted.

Does this include Verizon or AT&T employees?

No. VERIZON and AT&T are separate employer strings. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text COMCAST. Staff who typed only ENGINEER are in that title row instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed COMCAST?

The rollup counts 554 donors and 16,513 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.