IBM

IBM crossed with 2010

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — IBM and 2010 — sum to $346,500. 550 itemized contributions and 229 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. This page joins the employer grouping IBM to cycle 2010; it is not a restatement of either hub alone.

Neither the IBM hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. 229 unique donors and 550 lines in 2010 sit under the stored string IBM. IBM CORP, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES, IBM CORPORATION, and IBM INC stay on their own keys if filers used them. DoD, GSA IT, or other IT-services USAspending rows are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

3.3% of the IBM roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $10,520,465 ($10.5 million). The 2010 slice of $346,500 is about 3.3% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.7%, or $10,173,965. Treating 2010 as the IBM FEC story would ignore that remainder. Quote $346,500 when the sentence is about 2010. Quote $10,520,465 when the sentence is about the grouping across cycles. Do not add those two dollar figures; the first is already inside the second.

Treat $10,520,465 as the denominator for the 3.3% 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 2010 from being folded silently into $10,520,465. 3.3% is $346,500 divided by $10,520,465. Rounding to $346,500 and $10.5 million does not create extra facts. Use exact integers in a table. Use the rounded forms only as headlines of those same integers.

Questions

How much did IBM donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $346,500 in itemized individual contributions for the IBM grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 550 contributions and 229 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $10,520,465 all-cycle figure. Cite FEC.gov for the IBM × 2010 join.

What share of IBM FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $10,520,465. The 2010 cell of $346,500 is about 3.3% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.7% ($10,173,965) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the IBM hub holds other cycles.

Is this IBM’s PAC or an official account?

No. $346,500 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to IBM. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup. The key is not an IBM payroll, not an IT-services NAICS total, and not an IBM PAC. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Where is the overlay for the IBM 2010 join?

Open Ibm 2010 for the cycle overlay, Ibm for the grouping hub, and the 2010 election cycle for the year without this filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.