BUSINESS OWNER

Business Owner as stored text, 2014 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Business Owner and 2014 — sum to $554,672. 530 itemized contributions and 149 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 Business Owner hub nor the 2014 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Business Owner is stored form text, not a verified employer file. 149 donors and 530 lines in 2014 matched that word. People who typed a company name, Owner, or Self Employed instead of Business Owner sit in other buckets. OWNER, SELF EMPLOYED, BUSINESSMAN, and CEO are other keys. This page is the exact grouped string Business Owner as stored.

4.1% of the Business Owner roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $13,380,189. The 2014 slice of $554,672 is about 4.1% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 95.9%. Treating 2014 as the Business Owner 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 $13,380,189 as the denominator for the 4.1% 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 $13,380,189. 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 Business Owner donors give in 2014?

FEC.gov aggregates show $554,672 in itemized individual contributions for the Business Owner grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 530 contributions and 149 donors. That sum is not a PAC total, not an independent-expenditure total, and not the $13,380,189 all-cycle figure on the industry hub. Unitemized gifts sit outside this cell.

What share of Business Owner FEC money is 2014?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $13,380,189. The 2014 cell of $554,672 is about 4.1% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 95.9% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Business Owner hub holds other cycles; the 2014 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only current Business Owner employees or licensees?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Business Owner. 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 $554,672 from 149 donors on 530 contribution lines.

Where is the overlay for the Business Owner 2014 join?

Open Business Owner 2014 for the cycle overlay, Business Owner 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.