MERRILL LYNCH

Merrill Lynch as stored text, 2010 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Merrill Lynch and 2010 — sum to $1,005,807. 933 itemized contributions and 408 unique donors produced it. The total is not a corporate treasury gift and is not the company’s PAC. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Merrill Lynch hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Merrill Lynch is an employer string, not a verified employee census and not the firm’s PAC. 2010 filings can still store this brand after later parent-company changes. 408 donors and 933 lines in 2010 matched that employer text. MERRILL, BANK OF AMERICA, BofA, and other broker spellings sit in other keys if filers typed them that way. This page is the stored string MERRILL LYNCH.

LobbyVault keeps this two-key page so a reader can open Merrill Lynch 2010 without treating the industry hub as a cycle total or the 2010 cycle hub as an employer total. The overlay at the Merrill Lynch 2010 path holds the itemized rows for this cell. This prose publishes the packet snapshot: $1,005,807, 933 contributions, 408 donors, and 4.2% of $23,982,707.

4.2% of the Merrill Lynch roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $23,982,707. The 2010 slice of $1,005,807 is about 4.2% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 95.8% ($22,976,900). Treating 2010 as the Merrill Lynch FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $23,982,707 as the denominator for the 4.2% 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 $23,982,707.

A 4.2% cell can sit next to larger or smaller even-year windows on the same Merrill Lynch hub. This packet does not publish those other cycle dollars, so they are not cited here. Open Merrill Lynch to drop the year filter. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter.

Questions

How much did Merrill Lynch-listed donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,005,807 in itemized individual contributions for the Merrill Lynch grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 933 contributions and 408 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $23,982,707 all-cycle figure.

What share of Merrill Lynch FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $23,982,707. The 2010 cell of $1,005,807 is about 4.2% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 95.8% ($22,976,900) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Merrill Lynch hub holds other cycles; the 2010 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $1,005,807 the Merrill Lynch PAC total for 2010?

No. $1,005,807 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to MERRILL LYNCH in the 2010 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 933 contributions came from 408 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Merrill Lynch 2010 join?

Open Merrill Lynch 2010 for the cycle overlay, Merrill Lynch for the grouping hub, and the 2010 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.