BUILDER

Builder as stored text, 2014 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Builder and 2014 — sum to $575,181. 545 itemized contributions and 157 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 Builder hub nor the 2014 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Builder is stored form text, not a verified employer file. 157 donors and 545 lines in 2014 matched that word. People who typed a company name or CONSTRUCTION instead of Builder sit in other buckets. CONSTRUCTION, HOME BUILDER, CONTRACTOR, and HOMEBUILDER are other keys. This page is the exact grouped string Builder as stored.

3.4% of the Builder roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $16,832,191. The 2014 slice of $575,181 is about 3.4% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.6%. Treating 2014 as the Builder 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 $16,832,191 as the denominator for the 3.4% 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 $16,832,191. 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 Builder donors give in 2014?

FEC.gov aggregates show $575,181 in itemized individual contributions for the Builder grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 545 contributions and 157 donors. That sum is not a PAC total, not an independent-expenditure total, and not the $16,832,191 all-cycle figure on the industry hub. Unitemized gifts sit outside this cell.

What share of Builder FEC money is 2014?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $16,832,191. The 2014 cell of $575,181 is about 3.4% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.6% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Builder hub holds other cycles; the 2014 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only current Builder employees or licensees?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Builder. 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 $575,181 from 157 donors on 545 contribution lines.

Where is the overlay for the Builder 2014 join?

Open Builder 2014 for the cycle overlay, Builder 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.