How much did ACS-coded donors give OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM I?

FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions show $9,890,000 coded to the ACS employer grouping and received by OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM I (C00580092). That join covers 178 contributions. The broader ACS employer total across all committees is $12,172,812. These figures are not independent expenditures.

What share of ACS FEC money went to this committee?

About 81% of the $12,172,812 ACS employer total is in this join: $9,890,000 to OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM I. The leftover employer-coded dollars went to other committees and are not listed on this tie page. A high percentage describes the overlap of two FEC groupings, not a legal finding.

Is $9,890,000 a corporate ACS donation?

No. The total is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to ACS, not a treasury contribution from the firm. FEC filers enter the employer string. This page does not verify employment, reimbursement, or whether anyone at ACS encouraged the gifts. It reports the labeled join to C00580092 only.

Does this include independent expenditures by Opportunity and Freedom I?

No. The source is FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions grouped by employer/industry and recipient committee. Independent expenditures, electioneering communications, and operating costs are outside this join. Use the committee hub for C00580092 to see receipt types that are not in this employer filter.

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ACS contributions received by OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM I

$9,890,000 in itemized individual contributions is the join between the ACS employer/industry grouping and committee OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM I (C00580092). Those dollars sit in 178 contributions drawn from FEC.gov individual receipts. The same ACS grouping totals $12,172,812 across every recipient in this table; the committee cell is the slice that matched both labels, not a restatement of either hub.

Key figures

OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM I received $9,890,000 from ACS-coded individual contributions across 178 itemized gifts.
The ACS employer grouping totals $12,172,812, so this committee accounts for about 81% of that labeled money.
Committee ID C00580092 is the recipient side; other employers giving to the same committee are not in these 178 rows.
Figures are FEC itemized individual contributions, not independent expenditures or a corporate treasury gift.

How the ACS and Opportunity and Freedom I tables meet

LobbyVault stores employer strings on one axis and recipient committee IDs on the other. This page is the cell where ACS meets C00580092. A receipt appears here because the filer-entered employer grouped to ACS and the receiving committee is OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM I. The $9,890,000 figure is that intersection. It is not a corporate treasury gift, not an independent expenditure, and not a finding that ACS as a company directed the money.

FEC individual records carry a self-reported employer. Filers type what they type. The engine then buckets similar strings so a researcher can open one industry hub instead of a pile of spelling variants. ACS is that bucket. OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM I is the committee name attached to C00580092. Matching those two fields does not certify employment, reimbursement, or a bundled program.

Read the join as a filter. Two public tables overlapped on an employer label and a committee ID. The overlap is bookkeeping, not a motive.

ACS as the employer side of the join

All recipients combined, the ACS grouping shows $12,172,812 in itemized individual money. The Opportunity and Freedom I cell is $9,890,000, or about 81% of that labeled total. Four-fifths of an employer bucket landing in one committee is a concentrated overlap, but it still leaves about 19% of ACS-coded dollars at other committees. Opening only this tie would understate those other receipts.

The industry hub rolls every committee into one running ACS total. The committee hub rolls every employer into one C00580092 total. Neither hub is this page. The relationship record exists so those two summaries can be compared without collapsing them.

OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM I as the recipient side

Committee C00580092 received $9,890,000 from ACS-coded itemized gifts across 178 contributions. That is this employer’s slice of the committee, not the committee’s entire fundraising history. Other employers can appear on the committee overlay without appearing in these 178 rows.

Dividing $9,890,000 by 178 contributions gives about $55,562 per gift. That arithmetic mean is not a typical check. A few large itemized gifts can sit next to smaller ones, and FEC itemization thresholds already omit unitemized amounts. One hundred seventy-eight lines is a narrow contribution count relative to the dollars, which is why the mean runs high.

What the dollar overlap does and does not prove

An 81% share describes how ACS-coded receipts lined up against one committee ID. It does not prove that ACS funded a party, a nominee, or a federal award. Individual contributions are personal gifts reported to the FEC. USAspending obligations are a different dataset. An employer name that appears in both places is a coincidence of labeling, not a cash pipeline.

The employer field can lag a job change, a contractor relationship, or a shortened trade name. Treat ACS here as the string on the form. Correlation between an employer bucket and a committee is not causation of any political outcome.

Where to read each side without mixing the ledgers

The ACS industry page keeps the $12,172,812 employer total and any other recipient committees in that grouping. The OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM I committee page keeps C00580092 receipts from every employer, not only ACS. All industries and all FEC ties collect neighboring joins so this pair can be compared with other employer-committee intersections. Independent expenditures stay outside this source note.

Researchers comparing ACS to other employer keys should stay on the industry index rather than treating $9,890,000 as an ACS-sector total. The 178 contributions are itemized lines only. Unitemized gifts, if they exist, never enter this join. Repeats by the same person still count as separate contributions. The $55,562 mean is $9,890,000 divided by 178, not a typical check and not a unique-donor average.

Itemization, repeats, and how to quote the 81%

FEC itemized individual receipts are the only coverage on this page. The Commission's itemization rules omit smaller unitemized amounts from these aggregates, so $9,890,000 is a floor on disclosed ACS-coded gifts into C00580092, not a complete consumer of every ACS-related political dollar. State filings and independent expenditures sit elsewhere.

When quoting the 81% figure, keep the denominator visible: $9,890,000 of $12,172,812. Dropping the denominator makes the committee look like the entire ACS grouping. The remaining 19% is real money on other committees. Quote C00580092 as the recipient ID so the cell is not confused with other similarly named accounts. Source: FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions grouped by employer and recipient committee.

Questions

How much did ACS-coded donors give OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM I?: FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions show $9,890,000 coded to the ACS employer grouping and received by OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM I (C00580092). That join covers 178 contributions. The broader ACS employer total across all committees is $12,172,812. These figures are not independent expenditures.
What share of ACS FEC money went to this committee?: About 81% of the $12,172,812 ACS employer total is in this join: $9,890,000 to OPPORTUNITY AND FREEDOM I. The leftover employer-coded dollars went to other committees and are not listed on this tie page. A high percentage describes the overlap of two FEC groupings, not a legal finding.
Is $9,890,000 a corporate ACS donation?: No. The total is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to ACS, not a treasury contribution from the firm. FEC filers enter the employer string. This page does not verify employment, reimbursement, or whether anyone at ACS encouraged the gifts. It reports the labeled join to C00580092 only.
Does this include independent expenditures by Opportunity and Freedom I?: No. The source is FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions grouped by employer/industry and recipient committee. Independent expenditures, electioneering communications, and operating costs are outside this join. Use the committee hub for C00580092 to see receipt types that are not in this employer filter.

FEC.gov aggregates of itemized individual contributions grouped by employer/industry and recipient committee. Not independent expenditures.