APPLE
Total Donated
$4,167,407
Contributions
16,721
Unique Donors
667
Top Employer
APPLE
Filers who listed APPLE on federal campaign reports account for $4.2M ($4,167,407) in itemized receipts on FEC.gov. The cluster holds 16,721 contributions and 667 donors. APPLE is the short brand as typed, not a NAICS computer-manufacturing total, not Apple Inc.’s PAC, and not APPLE INC as a longer legal string.
Key figures
- APPLE as FEC employer text totals $4.2M ($4,167,407) from 667 donors.
- 16,721 contribution lines sit under that short brand string.
- APPLE INC and MICROSOFT are separate FEC keys.
- The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS industry or company PAC total.
Short brand, not a consumer-electronics sector
Six hundred sixty-seven unique donors produced 16,721 contributions totaling $4,167,407. About 25 itemized gifts per person and a mean gift near $249 describe the arithmetic. APPLE INC, APPLE COMPUTER, and APPLE CORPORATION can exist as other keys. They are not inside $4,167,407 unless they grouped to APPLE.
Top employer matches APPLE. The FEC field records what was typed, not a securities-filing legal name. LobbyVault does not recode APPLE INC into this short brand. Researchers who want a combined Apple family must recode after export.
667 donors and 16,721 lines
16,721 lines from 667 people is a thick receipt pattern. Mean per donor is about $6,248. Repeat payroll deductions can inflate contribution counts without raising unique donors. The packet does not publish a hardware-versus-services split.
Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the company’s committee PAC filings are outside the $4,167,407 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear.
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Questions
- How much have APPLE-listed donors given federally?
- LobbyVault attributes $4,167,407 to the APPLE employer string, from 16,721 contributions and 667 donors. These are itemized individual receipts on FEC.gov, not the company’s PAC and not a NAICS computer-manufacturing total. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
- Is APPLE INC included?
- Only if those receipts grouped to the short APPLE key. APPLE INC as a longer legal string is a separate grouped key if filers used it. The $4.2M total is receipts whose employer text grouped to APPLE. LobbyVault does not merge legal-suffix variants into this row. Unitemized gifts are omitted.
- Does this include Microsoft employees?
- No. MICROSOFT is a separate employer string. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text APPLE. Staff who typed only ENGINEER or SOFTWARE ENGINEER 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 APPLE?
- The rollup counts 667 donors and 16,721 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.
Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.