BANK OF AMERICA

A bank legal name on Schedule A

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. BANK OF AMERICA is the three-word form as typed. The $11,582,158 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not Bank of America’s disclosed PAC spending, not deposit-market share, and not a NAICS 5221 rollup of all commercial banks.

People who typed BofA, BAC, MERRILL LYNCH (a wealth unit with its own key), BANKER, or BANK sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into BANK OF AMERICA.

2,033 donors and 72,433 lines

2,033 unique donors produced 72,433 BANK OF AMERICA contribution lines totaling $11,582,158. That is on the order of 36 itemized receipts per donor — high paperwork volume relative to the unique-person count. Recurring itemized gifts can produce that shape. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Unitemized gifts never appear. The company’s committee PAC filings are outside the $11,582,158.

Questions

How much have BANK OF AMERICA-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $11,582,158 to the BANK OF AMERICA employer string, from 72,433 contributions and 2,033 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the company’s PAC and not a NAICS banking total. Unitemized gifts 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 Bank of America corporate political spending?

No. The $11,582,158 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to BANK OF AMERICA. 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 Merrill Lynch or everyone titled BANKER?

No. MERRILL LYNCH and BANKER are separate strings with their own pages. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text BANK OF AMERICA. Staff who typed only BANKER are in that title 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.

Why so many contributions from 2,033 donors?

The 72,433 lines include repeat gifts from the same 2,033 people — on the order of 36 itemized receipts per donor. Recurring itemized programs raise the line count. The FEC field is transactional, not a once-per-employee census. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.