GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY
Total Donated
$5,492,409
Contributions
123,875
Unique Donors
1,615
Top Employer
GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY
Contributors who listed GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY on federal itemized receipts account for $5,492,409, according to FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The cluster is 123,875 contributions from 1,615 donors — an unusually high line count for this dollar band. GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY is the three-word legal-style employer string as typed, not a NAICS motor-vehicle manufacturing total, not GM’s PAC, and not every short brand such as GM or GENERAL MOTORS. Unitemized gifts stay outside the $5,492,409.
Key figures
- GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY as FEC employer text totals $5,492,409 from 1,615 donors.
- 123,875 contribution lines sit under that three-word auto string.
- The line count is high-repeat itemized receipts, not a plant census.
- The label is self-reported form text, not a NAICS industry or company PAC total.
Three-word auto legal name on Schedule A
LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY is the long form as stored. The $5,492,409 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not vehicle-unit sales, not a UAW contract file, and not a NAICS rollup of all auto employers. People who typed GM, GENERAL MOTORS, GMC, or a plant-city name sit in other rows if stored that way.
The FEC field is not a plant-badge export. Hourly and salaried staff who used this exact three-word string share the key. LobbyVault does not recode those short brands into this company label. Occupation pages show titles stored beside the auto employer rather than adding them to the $5,492,409.
1,615 donors and 123,875 lines
1,615 unique donors produced 123,875 GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY contribution lines totaling $5,492,409. That is on the order of 77 itemized receipts per donor — among the densest repeat patterns in this dollar band. Dollars per line are correspondingly small. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a split among assembly, engineering, and salaried payrolls.
Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the company’s committee PAC filings are outside the $5,492,409 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Repeat names among 123,875 lines from 1,615 people are the expected reading of a payroll-style file.
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Questions
- How much have GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY-listed donors given federally?
- LobbyVault attributes $5,492,409 to the GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY employer string, from 123,875 contributions and 1,615 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the company’s PAC and not a NAICS auto-manufacturing 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 GM corporate political spending?
- No. The $5,492,409 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY. 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.
- Why are there so many contribution lines?
- 1,615 donors produced 123,875 lines, on the order of 77 receipts per person. That is a high-repeat itemized pattern, not a count of unique employees and not a PAC filing. The packet does not split assembly versus salaried payrolls. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
- Does this include people who wrote GM?
- Only if the grouped employer text is GENERAL MOTORS COMPANY. GM and GENERAL MOTORS are separate keys if stored that way. A receipt counted here carries the three-word company string. 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.