MICROSOFT

Microsoft 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 and 2008 — sum to $1,585,213. 1,998 itemized contributions and 602 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 hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Six hundred two donors and 1,998 lines in 2008 sit under the one-word Microsoft brand. MICROSOFT CORPORATION is a longer legal-name key with its own cycle cell. LobbyVault does not merge those neighbors into this short string. MICROSOFT CORPORATION, MICROSOFT CORP, MSFT, and other software-employer spellings sit in other keys if filers typed them that way. This page is the stored string MICROSOFT.

5.3% of the Microsoft roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $30,011,546 ($30.0 million). The 2008 slice of $1,585,213 is about 5.3% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 94.7% ($28,426,333). Treating 2008 as the Microsoft FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $30,011,546 as the denominator for the 5.3% 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 2008 from being folded silently into $30,011,546.

Questions

How much did Microsoft donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,585,213 in itemized individual contributions for the Microsoft grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 1,998 contributions and 602 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $30,011,546 all-cycle figure.

What share of Microsoft FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $30,011,546. The 2008 cell of $1,585,213 is about 5.3% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 94.7% ($28,426,333) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Microsoft hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $1,585,213 the Microsoft PAC total for 2008?

No. $1,585,213 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to Microsoft in the 2008 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 1,998 contributions came from 602 donors. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Microsoft hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Microsoft 2008 join?

Open Microsoft 2008 for the cycle overlay, Microsoft 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.