PWC money in federal elections

Three-letter brand versus the spelled-out firm

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. PWC is three letters as stored on individual receipts. The $4,227,791 total is those itemized gifts. It is not PricewaterhouseCoopers’s global revenue, not consulting-contract value, and not the PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS row that already has its own overlay.

People who typed PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, PRICE WATERHOUSE, PWC LLP, or ACCOUNTANT without the abbreviation sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not collapse those spellings into this key. Researchers who want a combined PwC family must recode after export.

1,230 donors and 11,105 lines

1,230 unique donors produced 11,105 PWC contribution lines totaling $4,227,791. That is on the order of 9 itemized receipts per donor and a mean gift near $381. Mean per donor is about $3,437—thinner per person than many law-firm strings in this ranking because the donor count is large relative to the dollar total.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the firm’s committee PAC filings are outside the $4,227,791 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear.

Other Big Four strings on the same index

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, PRICE WATERHOUSE, DELOITTE, KPMG LLP, and ERNST & YOUNG are separate employer-name keys. Combining them with PWC would mix distinct FEC fields. This page reports $4,227,791 for PWC only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the abbreviation. ACCOUNTANT, CPA, and CONSULTANT exist as industry keys when donors put the credential or function in the employer box instead of PWC.

Donor table

The PWC donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a client engagement, an audit opinion, or a motive to that line. Alumni who still type the three letters share the string with current staff. The FEC field is not an HR file.

Repeat names are expected among 11,105 lines from 1,230 people. Follow committees on the table for party and office. This page does not assign a partisan percentage to the abbreviation.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $4,227,791, 11,105 contributions, 1,230 donors, top employer PWC. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts. State filings are omitted.

The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Open PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS as a sibling firm-name page. Use occupation breakdowns for titles stored next to this employer.

PWC versus PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS as stored

PWC and PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS are two keys on purpose. Filers used both. LobbyVault does not pick a canonical legal name. The $4.2M total is only the abbreviation’s 11,105 lines from 1,230 donors. Adding the spelled-out variant without an explicit recode would mix fields the FEC stored separately.

Keep PWC’s $4,227,791, 11,105 contributions, and 1,230 donors on this three-letter string. DELOITTE, KPMG LLP, and ERNST & YOUNG stay on their own pages. Unitemized gifts and firm PAC documents remain omitted. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS accounting total.

Read $4,227,791 as the three-letter PWC abbreviation cluster only. The 11,105 contributions and 1,230 donors are matching-text counts on FEC.gov via LobbyVault. About 9 gifts per person, a mean gift near $381, and about $3,437 per donor are packet arithmetic. The donor count is large relative to the dollar total, which thins the per-person mean versus several law-firm strings in this ranking. Unitemized gifts and firm PAC filings sit outside the $4.2M unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS, PRICE WATERHOUSE, DELOITTE, and KPMG LLP remain other keys.

Filers used PWC and PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS on purpose. LobbyVault does not pick a canonical accounting-firm name. Researchers who want a combined PwC family must recode after export. ACCOUNTANT, CPA, and CONSULTANT remain title keys when the credential filled the employer box. The donor table lists disclosed names and committees without attaching a client engagement. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Open the PWC donor table for line-level detail. All industries lists other firm-name strings without merging them into this abbreviation.

Questions

How much have PWC-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $4,227,791 to the PWC employer string, from 11,105 contributions and 1,230 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the firm’s PAC and not a NAICS accounting total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this the same as PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS?

No. PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS is a separate grouped string with its own page. The $4.2M total is only receipts whose employer text grouped to PWC. LobbyVault does not merge the spelled-out firm into this row. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts are omitted.

Does this include Deloitte or KPMG employees?

No. DELOITTE and KPMG LLP are separate employer strings. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text PWC. Staff who typed only ACCOUNTANT or CPA are in those title rows instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.

How many unique donors listed PWC?

The rollup counts 1,230 donors and 11,105 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not an employee headcount from the firm. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.