MICROSOFT CORPORATION

Microsoft Corporation 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 — Microsoft Corporation and 2008 — sum to $708,178. 655 itemized contributions and 149 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 Microsoft Corporation hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. One hundred forty-nine donors and 655 lines in 2008 sit under Microsoft Corporation, including the Corporation suffix. The shorter MICROSOFT key is a different grouping with its own 2008 overlay. LobbyVault does not merge those neighbors. MICROSOFT, MICROSOFT CORP, MSFT, and GOOGLE or IBM as other technology-employer strings are other keys. This page is the two-word Microsoft Corporation string.

7.9% of the Microsoft Corporation roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $8,998,472 ($9.00 million). The 2008 slice of $708,178 is about 7.9% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.1% ($8,290,294). Treating 2008 as the Microsoft Corporation FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $8,998,472 as the denominator for the 7.9% 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 $8,998,472.

Questions

How much did Microsoft Corporation donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $708,178 in itemized individual contributions for the Microsoft Corporation grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 655 contributions and 149 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $8,998,472 all-cycle figure.

What share of Microsoft Corporation FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $8,998,472. The 2008 cell of $708,178 is about 7.9% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.1% ($8,290,294) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Microsoft Corporation hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $708,178 the Microsoft Corporation PAC total for 2008?

No. $708,178 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to Microsoft Corporation in the 2008 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 655 contributions came from 149 donors. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Microsoft Corporation hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Microsoft Corporation 2008 join?

Open Microsoft Corporation 2008 for the cycle overlay, Microsoft Corporation 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.