Akin Gump and the 2014 FEC election cycle

Akin Gump as stored text, 2014 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Akin Gump and 2014 — sum to $511,807. 353 itemized contributions and 100 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. 2014 is a midterm even-year window; that fact describes the FEC calendar, not which contests received the money.

Neither the Akin Gump hub nor the 2014 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Akin Gump is stored form text, not a verified employer file. 100 donors and 353 lines in 2014 matched that word. People who typed the longer partnership name or only ATTORNEY sit in other buckets. AKIN GUMP STRAUSS, the full Strauss Hauer & Feld string, and LLP variants are other keys. This page is the exact grouped string Akin Gump as stored.

10.3% of the Akin Gump roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,959,676. The 2014 slice of $511,807 is about 10.3% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 89.7%. Treating 2014 as the Akin Gump FEC story would ignore that remainder. The share is a scale check, not a peak-year ranking and not proof of a coordinated program.

Treat $4,959,676 as the denominator for the 10.3% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, not assets under management, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2014 from being folded silently into $4,959,676. Federal awards in other databases remain a different dataset; sharing a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants.

353 contributions from 100 donors

Dividing $511,807 by 353 contributions yields about $1,450 per itemized gift. Dividing by 100 donors yields about $5,118 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.5. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians, not a party split, and not a typical-gift claim. The two-word Akin Gump key does not automatically include the full partnership string.

100 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Akin Gump 2014 holds the rows. Recipients can include candidate committees, party committees, leadership PACs, and Super PACs; this join does not split those buckets in the headline facts.

2014 as the cycle dimension

The 2014 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Akin Gump is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2014 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Akin Gump to drop the year. Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $511,807 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday.

That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 353 contributions, the 100 unique donors, and the 10.3% share of $4,959,676. Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 100 donors, and 353 contributions.

Titles the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $511,807. AKIN GUMP STRAUSS, the full Strauss Hauer & Feld string, and LLP variants are other keys. People who typed the longer partnership name or only ATTORNEY are counted elsewhere unless the treasurer grouped them to this exact string. The two-word Akin Gump key does not automatically include the full partnership string. The page is not the firm’s PAC and not a legal-services NAICS total.

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. Akin Gump is the spelling as committees stored it. Researchers who want a combined family of neighboring labels must recode after export. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not attach a motive, a client matter, or a federal award to the $511,807 cell.

Citing Akin Gump and 2014 together

Start with $511,807, then Akin Gump 2014 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2014 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Akin Gump, 2014, $511,807, 353 contributions, 100 donors, 10.3% of $4,959,676, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 10.3% share, the 100-donor count, and the $1,450 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control. The join exists because two tables meet; it is not a restatement of one hub.

Questions

How much did Akin Gump donors give in 2014?

FEC.gov aggregates show $511,807 in itemized individual contributions for the Akin Gump grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 353 contributions and 100 donors. That sum is not a PAC total, not an independent-expenditure total, and not the $4,959,676 all-cycle figure on the industry hub. Unitemized gifts sit outside this cell.

What share of Akin Gump FEC money is 2014?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,959,676. The 2014 cell of $511,807 is about 10.3% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 89.7% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Akin Gump hub holds other cycles; the 2014 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include only current Akin Gump employees or licensees?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string Akin Gump. The FEC does not verify licenses or current jobs. Neighboring spellings and titles sit in other groupings unless they were stored as this exact key. This join reports the string match for 2014 only, totaling $511,807 from 100 donors on 353 contribution lines.

Where is the overlay for the Akin Gump 2014 join?

Open Akin Gump 2014 for the cycle overlay, Akin Gump for the grouping hub, and the 2014 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.