IBM

IBM as stored employer text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — IBM and 2008 — sum to $717,228. 1,371 itemized contributions and 539 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the IBM hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Five hundred thirty-nine donors and 1,371 lines in 2008 sit under the three-letter IBM employer string. Expanding the acronym into International Business Machines would point at a different key if filers typed the words out. MICROSOFT is a neighboring technology brand, not a share of this cell. I.B.M., INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES, IBM CORP, and MICROSOFT or GOOGLE as other technology-employer strings are other keys.

6.8% of the IBM roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $10,520,465 ($10.5 million). The 2008 slice of $717,228 is about 6.8% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.2% ($9,803,237). Treating 2008 as the IBM FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $10,520,465 as the denominator for the 6.8% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2008 from being folded silently into $10,520,465.

Questions

How much did IBM donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $717,228 in itemized individual contributions for the IBM grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 1,371 contributions and 539 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $10,520,465 all-cycle figure.

What share of IBM FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $10,520,465. The 2008 cell of $717,228 is about 6.8% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.2% ($9,803,237) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the IBM hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $717,228 the IBM PAC total for 2008?

No. $717,228 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to IBM in the 2008 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 1,371 contributions came from 539 donors. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the IBM hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the IBM 2008 join?

Open IBM 2008 for the cycle overlay, IBM for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.