BAIN CAPITAL

Bain Capital as stored text, 2014 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Bain Capital and 2014 — sum to $531,000. 74 itemized contributions and 31 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables. 2014 is a midterm even-year window; that fact describes the FEC calendar, not which contests received the money.

Neither the Bain Capital hub nor the 2014 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Bain Capital is stored form text, not a verified employer file. 31 donors and 74 lines in 2014 matched that word. People who typed Bain alone or Bain & Company, the consulting firm sit in other buckets. BAIN, BAIN & COMPANY, BAIN AND COMPANY, and BAIN CAPITAL LP are other keys. This page is the exact grouped string Bain Capital as stored.

6.2% of the Bain Capital roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $8,559,241. The 2014 slice of $531,000 is about 6.2% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.8%. Treating 2014 as the Bain Capital FEC story would ignore that remainder. The share is a scale check, not a peak-year ranking and not proof of a coordinated program.

Treat $8,559,241 as the denominator for the 6.2% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, not assets under management, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2014 from being folded silently into $8,559,241. Federal awards in other databases remain a different dataset; sharing a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants.

Questions

How much did Bain Capital donors give in 2014?

FEC.gov aggregates show $531,000 in itemized individual contributions for the Bain Capital grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 74 contributions and 31 donors. That sum is not a PAC total, not an independent-expenditure total, and not the $8,559,241 all-cycle figure on the industry hub. Unitemized gifts sit outside this cell.

What share of Bain Capital FEC money is 2014?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $8,559,241. The 2014 cell of $531,000 is about 6.2% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.8% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Bain Capital hub holds other cycles; the 2014 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only current Bain Capital employees or licensees?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Bain Capital. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Neighboring spellings and titles sit in other groupings unless they were stored as this exact key. This join reports the string match for 2014 only, totaling $531,000 from 31 donors on 74 contribution lines.

Where is the overlay for the Bain Capital 2014 join?

Open Bain Capital 2014 for the cycle overlay, Bain Capital for the grouping hub, and the 2014 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.