MICROSOFT

Microsoft as stored text, 2010 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Microsoft and 2010 — sum to $988,574. 1,472 itemized contributions and 318 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 Microsoft hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Microsoft is an employer string, not a verified headcount and not the company’s PAC. 318 donors and 1,472 lines in 2010 matched that employer text. 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.

LobbyVault keeps this two-key page so a reader can open Microsoft 2010 without treating the industry hub as a cycle total or the 2010 cycle hub as an employer total. The overlay at the Microsoft 2010 path holds the itemized rows for this cell. This prose publishes the packet snapshot: $988,574, 1,472 contributions, 318 donors, and 3.3% of $30,011,546.

3.3% of the Microsoft roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $30,011,546. The 2010 slice of $988,574 is about 3.3% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.7% ($29,022,972). Treating 2010 as the Microsoft FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $30,011,546 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 $30,011,546.

A 3.3% cell can sit next to larger or smaller even-year windows on the same Microsoft hub. This packet does not publish those other cycle dollars, so they are not cited here. Open Microsoft to drop the year filter. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter.

Questions

How much did Microsoft-listed donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $988,574 in itemized individual contributions for the Microsoft grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 1,472 contributions and 318 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $30,011,546 all-cycle figure.

What share of Microsoft FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $30,011,546. The 2010 cell of $988,574 is about 3.3% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.7% ($29,022,972) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Microsoft hub holds other cycles; the 2010 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $988,574 the Microsoft PAC total for 2010?

No. $988,574 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to MICROSOFT in the 2010 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 1,472 contributions came from 318 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Microsoft 2010 join?

Open Microsoft 2010 for the cycle overlay, Microsoft 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.