CISCO SYSTEMS
Total Donated
$5,443,189
Contributions
11,872
Unique Donors
515
Top Employer
CISCO SYSTEMS
Contributors who listed CISCO SYSTEMS on federal itemized receipts account for $5,443,189, according to FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The cluster is 11,872 contributions from 515 donors. CISCO SYSTEMS is the two-word networking brand as typed, not a NAICS communications-equipment total, not Cisco’s PAC, and not every short form such as CISCO or CISCO SYSTEMS INC. Unitemized gifts stay outside the $5,443,189.
Key figures
- CISCO SYSTEMS as FEC employer text totals $5,443,189 from 515 donors.
- 11,872 contribution lines sit under that two-word networking brand.
- CISCO as one word is a separate key if stored that way.
- The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS industry or company PAC total.
Two-word networking brand on the receipt
LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. CISCO SYSTEMS is the form with both words present. The $5,443,189 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not router-unit shipments, not a federal IT-contract obligated total, and not a NAICS rollup of all networking employers. People who typed CISCO, CISCO SYSTEMS INC, or a business-unit name sit in other rows if stored that way.
The FEC field is not a badge export from a campus or a sales region. Former employees who still type CISCO SYSTEMS share the key with current staff. LobbyVault does not recode the one-word CISCO brand into this two-word label. Occupation pages show titles stored beside the employer.
515 donors and 11,872 lines
515 unique donors produced 11,872 CISCO SYSTEMS contribution lines totaling $5,443,189. That is on the order of 23 itemized receipts per donor. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a split among engineering, sales, and corporate payrolls.
Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the company’s committee PAC filings are outside the $5,443,189 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Repeat names among 11,872 lines from 515 people are expected.
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Questions
- How much have CISCO SYSTEMS-listed donors given federally?
- LobbyVault attributes $5,443,189 to the CISCO SYSTEMS employer string, from 11,872 contributions and 515 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the company’s PAC and not a NAICS networking-equipment total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
- Is this Cisco corporate political spending?
- No. The $5,443,189 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to CISCO SYSTEMS. Corporate treasury and committee PAC filings are other FEC categories. LobbyVault does not fold those documents into this industry row. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
- Does this include people who wrote only CISCO?
- Only if the grouped employer text is CISCO SYSTEMS. CISCO as one word is a separate key if stored that way. A receipt counted here carries the two-word brand. Staff who typed ENGINEER without the company sit in occupation-style rows instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
- How many unique donors listed CISCO SYSTEMS?
- The rollup counts 515 donors and 11,872 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not an employee headcount from the company. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.
Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.