FIRSTENERGY
Total Donated
$4,453,181
Contributions
30,738
Unique Donors
717
Top Employer
FIRSTENERGY
Filers who listed FIRSTENERGY as employer or occupation on federal campaign reports account for $4,453,181 in itemized receipts on FEC.gov. Contribution volume is high: 30,738 gifts from 717 donors, about 43 transactions per person, which pulls the mean gift down to about $145. The utility name is FEC free text, not a NAICS electric-power code and not a corporate treasury figure.
Key figures
- FIRSTENERGY FEC strings sum to $4,453,181.
- 30,738 contributions came from 717 donors — high row density.
- About $145 per gift and $6,211 per donor on a simple mean.
- The label is FEC employer text, not NAICS.
- Subsidiary utility names may be other slugs.
High frequency, $4,453,181 total
Thirty thousand seven hundred thirty-eight contributions from 717 donors is among the denser row counts in this wave. $4,453,181 ÷ 30,738 ≈ $145 per gift; $4,453,181 ÷ 717 ≈ $6,211 per donor. That pattern often reflects frequent small itemized PAC withholdings stacked under one employer spelling. The packet does not prove that mechanism; it supplies the four aggregates only.
Top employer is FIRSTENERGY, matching the industry label. FirstEnergy Corp., operating-company names, and utility abbreviations can exist as other keys. They are not inside this $4,453,181 unless they matched FIRSTENERGY.
Utility employer text, not a grid sector
FEC individual files do not classify employers as electric utilities under NAICS. Contributors type a company name. LobbyVault ranks that string. FIRSTENERGY is the key for this page.
Occupation fields (lineman, engineer, executive) are a separate dimension. Use occupation breakdowns for titles. This industry page cuts by employer string.
Full analysis: FirstEnergy money in federal elections →
Questions
- How much have FirstEnergy-labeled filers given federally?
- The FIRSTENERGY industry cluster totals $4,453,181 in itemized FEC contributions, from 30,738 contributions and 717 donors. Filers listed FIRSTENERGY as employer or occupation. The sum is a text-field rollup, not a corporate political budget. 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 more than 30,000 contributions?
- Each itemized gift is its own FEC row. Repeat donors and frequent small itemized gifts produce 30,738 contributions from 717 people, about 43 transactions per donor. Unique-donor count remains 717 inside this employer string. 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.
- Is this NAICS for electric utilities?
- No. FEC individual files do not include NAICS. LobbyVault groups employer/occupation self-reports. FIRSTENERGY is the typed company name. 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.
- Does $4,453,181 include subsidiary utility names?
- Only if those names were ingested as FIRSTENERGY. Operating-company strings stored as other keys are other slugs. This page’s total is the FIRSTENERGY key only. 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.
Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.