BARON REAL ESTATE

When one cycle is almost the entire grouping

Most industry–cycle pages show a mid-single-digit share of an all-years roll. Baron Real Estate is the opposite: $3,810,000 of $3,893,726 sits in 2012. The residual $83,726 lives in other cycles. That ratio does not mean the firm appeared in 2012 and vanished; it means this particular grouped string’s itemized individual receipts are concentrated in that window.

Four donors and 13 contributions produce about $293,077 per line and about $952,500 per donor. Those averages are large relative to occupation-style keys that spread millions across hundreds of people. They describe this key’s 2012 shape. They do not identify the four people or the 13 recipient committees.

A 97.9% year share is easy to misread as “the firm only existed in 2012.” The table does not say that. It says that of the $3,893,726 this grouped string has recorded, $3,810,000 sits in the 2012 cell. The employer could have used other spellings in other years, or itemized volume could simply have peaked in a presidential window. Those alternatives are not facts in the packet. The facts are 13 lines, 4 donors, $3,810,000, and a remainder of $83,726 outside 2012.

Named brokerage versus the Real Estate label

Baron Real Estate is an employer name, not the generic Real Estate grouping. Donors who wrote only “real estate” are in a different row. Combining the two would mix a four-donor cell with a 782-donor occupation cell. This tie keeps the legal-name key isolated so the $3,810,000 is not mistaken for sector-wide giving.

As-filed spellings still matter. Hyphens, “LLC,” and personal names can split related receipts into other keys. If a researcher expected a larger lifetime total than $3,893,726, the missing dollars may sit under a different string rather than in a later cycle of this one.

Questions

How much did Baron Real Estate donors give in 2012?

The FEC join records $3,810,000 in itemized individual contributions for Baron Real Estate in 2012, from 13 contributions and 4 donors. The grouping’s all-cycle total is $3,893,726.

Why is 2012 almost all of this grouping?

Because $3,810,000 is 97.9% of $3,893,726. Other cycles hold only the remainder. The facts do not explain why the string is concentrated in 2012; they only locate the dollars.

Is this the same as the Real Estate occupation page?

No. Baron Real Estate is a named employer key. The generic Real Estate grouping is a different row with different totals. Mixing them would blend four donors with hundreds of occupation-string donors.

What is the average 2012 gift for this key?

About $293,077 per contribution ($3,810,000 ÷ 13) and about $952,500 per donor ($3,810,000 ÷ 4). Those are arithmetic on the cycle facts, not a statement of contribution-limit strategy.