AMERICAN EXPRESS

American Express crossed with 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — American Express and 2008 — sum to $464,992. The cell holds 367 itemized contributions and 161 unique donors. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the American Express hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. One hundred sixty-one donors and 367 lines in 2008 sit under the two-word card-network brand. Truncated AMEX rows are not inside this cell unless they grouped here. Card-network settlement files and USAspending awards to payment processors are different datasets. AMEX, AMERICAN EXPRESS CO, AMERICAN EXPRESS COMPANY, and generic CREDIT CARD occupation strings are other keys if filers used them.

9.4% of the American Express roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,940,512 ($4.9 million). The 2008 slice of $464,992 is about 9.4% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 90.6%. Treating 2008 as the American Express FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $4,940,512 as the denominator for the 9.4% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $4,940,512.

Questions

How much did American Express donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $464,992 in itemized individual contributions for the American Express grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 367 contributions and 161 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,940,512 all-cycle figure.

What share of American Express FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,940,512. The 2008 cell of $464,992 is about 9.4% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 90.6% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the American Express hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this American Express’s PAC or an official account?

No. $464,992 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to American Express. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup unless an individual receipt itself carries the string. The key is not a credit-intermediation NAICS total and not an American Express PAC.

Where is the overlay for the American Express 2008 join?

Open American Express 2008 for the cycle overlay, American Express for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.