MORGAN STANLEY as FEC employer text: $18.8 million

A bank holding-company name on Schedule A

LobbyVault’s industry table ranks grouped employer text. MORGAN STANLEY is a firm name as typed on individual receipts. The $18,776,463 total is those itemized gifts. It is not Morgan Stanley’s disclosed PAC spending, not underwriting fees, and not a NAICS 5231 rollup of the securities industry.

People who typed MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY, a wealth-management subsidiary, MS as a ticker, or INVESTMENT BANKER without the firm sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into this key.

2,235 donors, 35,979 lines

2,235 unique donors produced 35,979 MORGAN STANLEY contribution lines totaling $18,776,463. Receipts per donor run lower than Honeywell-style payroll volume and higher than some partnership rows with a few hundred people. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the firm’s committee PAC filings are outside the $18,776,463 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear.

Wall Street siblings

GOLDMAN SACHS, GOLDMAN SACHS & CO, MERRILL LYNCH, BANK OF AMERICA, and SALOMON BROTHERS are separate employer-name keys. Combining them with MORGAN STANLEY would be a researcher-built broker recode. This page stays at $18,776,463 for MORGAN STANLEY only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the firm — banker, managing director, analyst — as typed. BANKER and INVESTMENT BANKER also exist as industry keys when donors put the title in the employer box instead of the company.

Donor table

The MORGAN STANLEY donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a deal, a Federal Reserve stress-test finding, or a motive to that line. Alumni who still type the brand share the string with current staff. The FEC field is not an HR file.

Repeat names are expected among the 35,979 lines. Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the firm string.

MORGAN STANLEY’s 35,979 lines from 2,235 donors totaling $18,776,463 should be read next to GOLDMAN SACHS, MERRILL LYNCH, BANK OF AMERICA, and SALOMON BROTHERS as sibling firm keys, not as one Wall Street NAICS total. INVESTMENT BANKER and BANKER still capture people who put a title in the employer box. Unitemized gifts and the firm PAC stay out. Alumni who still type the brand remain in the 2,235. Occupation pages show titles beside the firm. Follow committees on the donor table for party and office. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not NAICS 5231.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $18,776,463, 35,979 contributions, 2,235 donors, top employer MORGAN STANLEY. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts. State filings are omitted.

The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Open the industry index for other bank and broker names and the occupation index for titles next to this employer string.

Broker-name coverage and the $18,776,463 omissions

MORGAN STANLEY’s $18,776,463 from 2,235 donors and 35,979 lines is the one firm-name grouping, not a NAICS securities rollup and not the firm’s PAC. GOLDMAN SACHS, GOLDMAN SACHS & CO, MERRILL LYNCH, BANK OF AMERICA, and SALOMON BROTHERS are sibling firm keys with their own totals. INVESTMENT BANKER and BANKER are title rows that may include Morgan Stanley staff who never typed the company.

People who typed MORGAN STANLEY SMITH BARNEY, a wealth-management subsidiary, or MS as a ticker sit in other rows if stored that way. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and independent expenditures that lack this employer string are outside the $18,776,463. Alumni who still type the brand remain in the 2,235. The FEC field is not an HR file.

The donor table lists disclosed names and recipient committees. LobbyVault does not attach a deal or a Federal Reserve finding to a large gift. Occupation pages show titles beside the firm. Follow committees for party and office; this page does not assign a partisan percentage to the string. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault — $18,776,463, 35,979 contributions, 2,235 donors — self-reported employer text, not NAICS 5231.

Questions

How much have MORGAN STANLEY-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $18,776,463 to the MORGAN STANLEY employer string, from 35,979 contributions and 2,235 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the firm’s PAC and not a NAICS securities total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings 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 Morgan Stanley corporate political spending?

No. The $18,776,463 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to MORGAN STANLEY. 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 Goldman Sachs or Merrill Lynch employees?

No. GOLDMAN SACHS and MERRILL LYNCH are separate employer strings with their own pages. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text MORGAN STANLEY. Staff who typed only INVESTMENT BANKER are in that occupation-style 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.

How many unique donors listed MORGAN STANLEY?

The rollup counts 2,235 donors and 35,979 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. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.