Goldman Sachs & Co. money in federal elections

A high-dollar, low-row spelling

One thousand five hundred twenty-two contributions from 276 donors is about 5.5 itemized gifts per person, well below the dozens-per-donor ratios on some payroll-heavy employer pages. Combined with $4,949,108, the arithmetic points to larger typical itemized amounts inside this string. The packet does not list the median, the largest gift, or the recipient mix. Those live on FEC.gov line items if a hub table exists for a neighboring slug.

Ampersand-and-CO punctuation matters. Filers also write Goldman Sachs, Goldman, Sachs & Co., and GS. Each spelling can become its own industry key. This page’s $4,949,108 belongs only to GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. Adding other Goldman strings would invent a total the packet does not contain.

Why this file is a guide-only page

The harvest packet for this slug does not include an overlayTarget hub path. The canonical URL is therefore the standalone guide at /guides/goldman-sachs-co-political-donations-2/. Readers can still follow the packet’s internal links: the GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. donor table path, the all-industries index, and occupation breakdowns. If a live industry hub uses a different slug, treat this file as the prose companion for the punctuated & CO. string, not as a merge of every Goldman label.

Top employer in the facts is GOLDMAN SACHS & CO., matching the industry name. The bucket is that text, not a coded securities-industry classification.

Reading 276 donors against $4,949,108

Two hundred seventy-six unique people produced the dollar total. Unique-donor logic collapses multiple contributions by the same person; it does not verify current employment. Alumni, contractors, and people who listed a former desk can remain in the 276. The FEC form is a self-report at filing time.

Contribution count (1,522) still counts every itemized transaction. Joint fundraising splits and refunds can alter historical rows after a snapshot. Confirm on FEC.gov.

What the four facts omit

No cycle year, no party split, no PAC-versus-individual break, no lobbying total. The public facts on this packet are industry GOLDMAN SACHS & CO., total $4,949,108, 1,522 contributions, 276 donors. Anything else would be invented.

Occupation pages help if the question is job title (managing director, analyst) rather than this employer spelling. All industries lists peer strings, including other bank names and other Goldman punctuations.

Source

Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. This guide restates only the packet facts for GOLDMAN SACHS & CO.

Because this slug has no overlayTarget, treat the guide URL as canonical and use the packet’s internal links for the GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. donor table path, all industries, and occupation breakdowns. The $4,949,108 figure is 1,522 itemized contributions from 276 donors inside this punctuated spelling only. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted. Other Goldman punctuations are other keys; this file does not merge them. Mean gift size about $3,252 follows from sparse rows and is not a median. Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Unique-donor count 276 is matching text, not a worldwide headcount. This guide does not invent a combined Goldman total. Amendments on FEC.gov can revise the snapshot. Keep $4,949,108 attached to GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. as stored. Per-donor mean about $17,932 uses total divided by 276 people.

One punctuated spelling and the rest of Goldman text

GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. keyed $4,949,108 from only 1,522 contributions and 276 donors. Mean gift size about $3,252 follows from sparse rows and a large dollar sum. Other Goldman punctuations are other industry keys; this guide does not merge them. Because the packet has no overlayTarget, the canonical URL is the standalone guide. Internal links still point at the donor-table path, all industries, and occupation breakdowns. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted from $4,949,108. Unique-donor count 276 is matching text inside this spelling, not a worldwide headcount.

Investment-banking NAICS codes are not on FEC individual records. Researchers comparing bank employer strings should keep each spelling on its own page and document any recode they perform. Open the GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. donor table for names. Use occupation breakdowns for managing director and analyst titles that co-occur with this employer text. All industries lists peer financial strings, including other Goldman keys if present. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault. The four facts are industry GOLDMAN SACHS & CO., $4,949,108, 1,522 contributions, 276 donors, top employer GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. This file does not invent a combined Goldman total.

Questions

How much is tagged to the Goldman Sachs & Co. FEC string?

The GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. industry cluster totals $4,949,108 in itemized contributions, from 1,522 contributions and 276 donors. That is one employer spelling on FEC.gov. Other Goldman Sachs punctuations are not included in this sum. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

Why are there only 1,522 contributions?

This page isolates the GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. text key. Filers who omitted the ampersand or “& CO.” land in other slugs. Inside this key, 1,522 itemized gifts from 276 donors produced $4,949,108. The low row count raises the mean gift to about $3,252.

Is this a NAICS investment-banking total?

No. FEC individual records do not include NAICS. LobbyVault groups employer/occupation self-reports. GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. is the string. A finance-sector NAICS rollup would be a different dataset. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

Does this guide overlay a live industry hub?

The packet for this slug has no overlayTarget, so this file is a standalone guide at /guides/goldman-sachs-co-political-donations-2/. Internal links still point to the GOLDMAN SACHS & CO. donor table path, all industries, and occupation breakdowns. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.