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COOPERS LYBRAND

Total Donated

$228,438

Contributions

906

Unique Donors

15

Top Employer

COOPERS LYBRAND

FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault assign $7,588,507 to the employer string COOPERS & LYBRAND. The cluster is 24,868 contributions from 729 donors. That text is a historical firm name as typed on itemized individual receipts, not a NAICS accounting-industry total, not PricewaterhouseCoopers as a current legal entity, and not a firm PAC. PRICE WATERHOUSE, DELOITTE, KPMG LLP, and ERNST & YOUNG remain sibling keys with their own pages.

Key figures

  • COOPERS & LYBRAND as FEC employer text totals $7,588,507 from 729 donors.
  • 24,868 contribution lines sit under that legacy firm string.
  • PRICE WATERHOUSE, DELOITTE, and KPMG LLP are separate FEC keys.
  • The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS industry or successor PAC total.

A legacy partnership name that still groups

Filers keep typing names they used on older W-2s and letterhead. COOPERS & LYBRAND is one of those strings. LobbyVault ranks the grouped text; it does not merge it into a successor firm. The $7,588,507 total is itemized individual gifts whose employer field grouped here. It is not Coopers’ historical audit fees and not a successor firm’s current PAC.

People who typed PRICE WATERHOUSE, PWC, DELOITTE, DELOITTE TOUCHE, or ACCOUNTANT without a firm sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode merger history into a single Big Four key.

Letterhead changes faster than FEC free text. A receipt typed in a later cycle can still carry COOPERS & LYBRAND because the filer copied an old employer. LobbyVault records that text. It does not ask whether the partnership still existed on the contribution date.

729 donors, 24,868 receipts

729 unique donors produced 24,868 COOPERS & LYBRAND contribution lines totaling $7,588,507. That is on the order of 34 itemized receipts per donor. Alumni who still type the pre-merger name share the string with anyone whose receipt carried the same letters. The packet does not publish a mean gift or an active-versus-retired split.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and committee PAC filings in a successor firm’s name are outside the $7,588,507 unless the individual receipt itself lists COOPERS & LYBRAND. Unitemized gifts never appear.

The 24,868 lines are itemized federal receipts only. A partner who later typed PRICE WATERHOUSE on a new form leaves this key on that later line. The 729-person count does not track that migration.

Full analysis: COOPERS & LYBRAND as FEC employer text: $7.6 million

Questions

How much have COOPERS & LYBRAND-listed donors given federally?
LobbyVault attributes $7,588,507 to the COOPERS & LYBRAND employer string, from 24,868 contributions and 729 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a successor firm’s PAC and not a NAICS accounting 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 PricewaterhouseCoopers corporate political spending?
No. The $7,588,507 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to COOPERS & LYBRAND. Successor legal names, 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 Price Waterhouse or Deloitte employees?
No. PRICE WATERHOUSE and DELOITTE are separate employer strings with their own pages. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text COOPERS & LYBRAND. Staff who typed only ACCOUNTANT or CPA are in those title rows instead. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
How many unique donors listed COOPERS & LYBRAND?
The rollup counts 729 donors and 24,868 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not an alumni headcount from a successor firm. 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.