NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION
Total Donated
$5,647,909
Contributions
45,742
Unique Donors
540
Top Employer
NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION
Contributors who listed NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION on federal itemized receipts account for $5,647,909, according to FEC.gov aggregates on LobbyVault. The cluster is 45,742 contributions from 540 donors. The label is the full corporate employer string as typed, not a NAICS rail-transportation total, not Norfolk Southern’s PAC, and not every short brand such as NS or NORFOLK SOUTHERN. Unitemized gifts stay outside the $5,647,909.
Key figures
- NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION as FEC employer text totals $5,647,909 from 540 donors.
- 45,742 contribution lines sit under that railroad corporation string.
- The pattern is high-repeat itemized receipts, not a NAICS Class I census.
- The label is self-reported form text, not the company PAC total.
A Class I railroad name on Schedule A
LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION is the long legal-style form stored on itemized individual receipts. The $5,647,909 total is those gifts. It is not freight-tonnage statistics, not a Surface Transportation Board filing, and not a NAICS rollup of all railroad employers. People who typed NORFOLK SOUTHERN, NS CORP, or a subsidiary operating-company name sit in other rows if stored that way.
The FEC employer field is not an HR export. Alumni, contractors, and current payroll who used this exact string share the same key. LobbyVault does not recode shorter railroad brands into this corporation label. Occupation pages show job titles stored beside the railroad name rather than merging them into the dollar total.
540 donors and 45,742 contribution lines
540 unique donors produced 45,742 NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION contribution lines totaling $5,647,909. That is on the order of 85 itemized receipts per donor — a high-repeat pattern consistent with payroll-style giving rather than a handful of large one-time gifts. The packet does not publish a mean gift, a union-versus-management split, or a headquarters-versus-division split.
Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and the company’s committee PAC filings are outside the $5,647,909 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Repeat names among 45,742 lines from 540 people are expected on the donor table.
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Questions
- How much have Norfolk Southern-listed donors given federally?
- LobbyVault attributes $5,647,909 to the NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION employer string, from 45,742 contributions and 540 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not the company’s PAC and not a NAICS railroad total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
- Is this Norfolk Southern corporate political spending?
- No. The $5,647,909 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION. Corporate treasury and committee PAC filings are other FEC categories. LobbyVault does not fold those documents into this industry row. Figures are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
- Does this include CSX or Union Pacific employees?
- No. Other railroad employer strings are separate keys if stored that way. A receipt counted here carries the grouped text NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION. Staff who typed a short brand or a different carrier sit in those other rows. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault.
- How many unique donors listed NORFOLK SOUTHERN CORPORATION?
- The rollup counts 540 donors and 45,742 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count to about 85 lines per person. This is not an employee headcount from the railroad. Figures are limited to the FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.
Industry labels come from FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Data from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.