ELI LILLY AND COMPANY

High row count, $5,010,588 in receipts

Thirty-six thousand two hundred fourteen contributions from 935 donors is about 39 itemized gifts per person in the rollup. Combined with a $138 mean gift, the pattern often reflects frequent small itemized transactions—PAC withholdings and repeat gifts—stacked under one employer spelling. The packet does not prove that mechanism; it only supplies the four aggregates: $5,010,588, 36,214 contributions, 935 donors, top employer ELI LILLY AND COMPANY.

Per-donor mean is about $5,359. That figure is a total divided by unique people, not a typical annual gift. Multi-cycle filers raise both contribution count and lifetime dollars inside the same industry slug. Cycle splits are not in the facts, so this guide does not assign the $5,010,588 to a single election.

Employer spelling on the FEC form

Filers write Eli Lilly, Lilly, or ELI LILLY AND COMPANY. LobbyVault’s industry pages keep those strings distinct when ingest treats them as different keys. This page is the ELI LILLY AND COMPANY key. Subsidiary names and “Lilly USA” variants, if present in the database, would appear as other industry rows. Do not add those missing variants into this $5,010,588.

Occupation fields on the same forms (scientist, sales, attorney) are a separate dimension. The occupation index is the place to cut by job title. This industry page cuts by the employer string only. Top employer matching the industry label means that string dominates the bucket.

Questions

How much federal campaign money is tagged to Eli Lilly and Company filers?

LobbyVault’s ELI LILLY AND COMPANY industry cluster sums to $5,010,588 in itemized FEC contributions, from 36,214 contributions and 935 donors. The label is the employer/occupation text on the filing, not a NAICS pharmaceutical sector total. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.

Why are there 36,214 contributions but only 935 donors?

Each itemized gift is its own FEC row. Repeat donors and frequent small itemized gifts raise contribution count without adding new people. Here 36,214 contributions map to 935 unique donors inside the ELI LILLY AND COMPANY string. That is about 39 transactions per donor as a simple ratio.

Is this Eli Lilly’s corporate political spending?

The facts do not describe a corporate treasury outlay. They sum $5,010,588 in itemized receipts whose employer text matches ELI LILLY AND COMPANY. Contributor names and committee types are on the donor table and on FEC.gov, not in this four-number packet.

Does the FEC classify this as pharmaceuticals under NAICS?

No. Individual contribution files store employer as free text. LobbyVault groups that text. ELI LILLY AND COMPANY is the string. Other Lilly spellings, if ingested separately, are other industry pages. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov. Unitemized gifts, state filings, and lobbying reports are omitted and are not added to the itemized total cited here.