GOLDMAN SACHS

Why Goldman Sachs and 2012 share a row

An industry hub collapses every cycle. A cycle hub collapses every employer. The intersection is a single cell: Goldman Sachs × 2012 = $4,126,251. LobbyVault keeps that cell on its own URL so the 1,683 receipts and 671 donors are not diluted by other years or other employer strings. 2012 is a presidential cycle; that fact describes the calendar, not a finding about which contests received the money.

The 9.4% share ($4,126,251 of $44,049,682) is useful as a scale check. It says 2012 is a visible slice of the grouping, not the entire history. Other cycles for the same key live on the industry hub. Other employers in 2012 live on the cycle hub. Mixing those rolls without the join produces double-counting or missing years.

Itemization on FEC Schedule A is a reporting event, not a psychological profile of 671 people. A partner who gave in the primary and again in the general appears twice in the 1,683. A vice president who gave once appears once. The join does not weight those people by seniority, bonus, or office location. It only keeps the Goldman Sachs string locked to the 2012 window so the $4,126,251 is not silently merged into the $44,049,682 lifetime cell when a searcher wants the presidential year.

Donor breadth inside the Goldman Sachs grouping

Six hundred seventy-one donors and 1,683 contributions produce a different shape than a one-donor grouping. Contributions per donor average about 2.5 (1,683 ÷ 671). Dollars per contribution average about $2,452 ($4,126,251 ÷ 1,683). Dollars per donor average about $6,149. Those three ratios are trivial arithmetic on the cycle facts. They describe reporting volume, not seniority inside the firm and not a coordinated program.

Employer on an FEC receipt is whatever the contributor or treasurer entered. “Goldman Sachs,” variants with “& Co.,” and related legal names can land in this grouping after LobbyVault’s string rollup. People who listed a different bank, a former employer, or a spouse’s firm are not in this cell even if they worked at the company. The 671 donor count is unique keys inside this grouping for 2012, not a headcount of the payroll.

Questions

How much FEC money is tagged Goldman Sachs in 2012?

The industry–cycle join records $4,126,251 in itemized individual contributions for Goldman Sachs in the 2012 cycle. That sum covers 1,683 contributions from 671 donors. The grouping’s all-cycle total in this table is $44,049,682.

Is 2012 most of Goldman Sachs giving in this database?

No. $4,126,251 is 9.4% of the $44,049,682 all-cycle total for the grouping. Other even-year windows make up the rest. Compare years on the industry hub rather than treating 2012 as a lifetime figure.

Why are there more contributions than donors?

1,683 contribution lines and 671 donors mean many people appear more than once in the two-year window—about 2.5 receipts per donor on average. Multiple committees, primaries, and joint fundraising each create separate Schedule A rows.

Does this include Goldman Sachs PAC disbursements?

No. These facts are individual contributions whose employer field grouped to Goldman Sachs. PAC disbursements and independent expenditures are different FEC schedules and are not in the $4,126,251 cell.