SABAN PRODUCTIONS

A one-donor cell at the industry–cycle intersection

Most employer-cycle pages spread dollars across dozens or hundreds of names. This one does not. One donor accounts for the entire $1,274,600. Twenty-one separate itemized contributions still sit in the count, so the money did not arrive as a single line. The join is still just those rows whose employer text rolled up to Saban Productions and whose dates fall in the 2012 cycle. Drop either filter and the dollar figure changes; this page holds the intersection only.

Across every cycle stored for this grouping, LobbyVault shows $25,329,424. The 2012 window is about 5.0% of that running total. A 5% slice that is almost entirely one filer’s itemized activity is a concentration statistic, not a ranking of entertainment companies and not a claim that the firm itself wrote the checks. Other cycles under the same key may look broader; they are not imported here.

Reading the Saban Productions label

Saban Productions is the employer string as matched in FEC individual files. Filers supply occupation and employer; the Commission does not assign a NAICS code. People who listed a related Saban entity under a different spelling would land on a different industry page. This join does not combine those spellings.

Because a single donor dominates the 2012 cell, the grouping’s cycle page is closer to a person-level timeline than to a workplace census. The industry hub still holds the longer multi-cycle total of $25,329,424, which can include other years and other filers. Do not treat 2012 as a substitute for that hub. A related production, distribution, or personal-name spelling would be a different industry key with its own cycle cells.

Questions

How much FEC money is tied to Saban Productions in 2012?

LobbyVault’s FEC.gov aggregates show $1,274,600 in itemized individual contributions for the Saban Productions grouping in the 2012 cycle. The cell contains 21 contributions and one donor. It is not a corporate treasury total.

Why is there only one donor in the 2012 Saban Productions cell?

The aggregate counts 1 donor and 21 contributions. That means every itemized row in this join traced to a single contributor identity in the grouping. Other people may have given under different employer spellings that do not match this key.

What is the all-cycle Saban Productions total?

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $25,329,424. The 2012 amount of $1,274,600 is about 5.0% of that figure. This page does not break out the remaining cycles.

Is this Saban Productions PAC spending?

No. These are itemized individual contributions whose employer field matched Saban Productions. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are separate FEC tables and are not included in the $1,274,600.