American Express and the 2010 FEC election cycle

American Express as stored text, 2010 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — AMERICAN EXPRESS and 2010 — sum to $166,516. 178 itemized contributions and 68 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. Cite FEC.gov for this intersection.

Neither the American Express hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. American Express is card-network employer text, not a verified payroll file. 68 donors and 178 lines in 2010 matched that stored string. People who typed a neighboring spelling sit in other buckets. Named affiliates and related titles are other keys. This page is the exact string AMERICAN EXPRESS.

The join exists so a reader does not treat $4,940,512 (all cycles for this string) as the 2010 story, and does not treat the 2010 cycle hub as a American Express-only list. Two filters, one cell: $166,516.

3.4% of the American Express roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,940,512. The 2010 slice of $166,516 is about 3.4% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.6% ($4,773,996). Treating 2010 as the entire American Express FEC story would ignore that remainder. The industry hub is the year index for this string.

Treat $4,940,512 as the denominator for the 3.4% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. This tie keeps 2010 from being folded silently into $4,940,512. Neighboring spellings are not added into either figure.

178 contributions from 68 donors

Dividing $166,516 by 178 contributions yields about $935 per itemized gift. Dividing by 68 donors yields about $2,449 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.6. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split. FEC.gov itemized individual receipts are the universe.

68 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.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer and occupation for that window. American Express is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter and American Express to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $166,516 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 178 contributions, the 68 unique donors, and the 3.4% share of $4,940,512.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $166,516. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is card-network employer text, not an American Express PAC, a credit-intermediation NAICS total, or truncated AMEX as a sibling key.

Correlation between an employer string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 68 donors, and 178 contributions. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control.

Citing American Express and 2010 together

Start with $166,516, then American Express 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: AMERICAN EXPRESS, 2010, $166,516, 178 contributions, 68 donors, 3.4% of $4,940,512, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 3.4% share, the 68-donor count, and the $935 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling employer word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. 178 itemized contributions totaling $166,516 average about $935 per line. Unitemized gifts never appear. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Questions

How much did American Express donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $166,516 in itemized individual contributions for the American Express grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 178 contributions and 68 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,940,512 all-cycle figure. Independent expenditures are not included.

What share of American Express FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,940,512. The 2010 cell of $166,516 is about 3.4% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.6% ($4,773,996) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell.

Does this include only American Express employees?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string AMERICAN EXPRESS. The FEC does not verify licenses, current jobs, or corporate identity. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2010 only, totaling $166,516 from 68 donors across 178 contributions.

Where is the overlay for the American Express 2010 join?

Open American Express 2010 for the cycle overlay, American Express 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. Cite FEC.gov for $166,516, 178 contributions, and 68 donors.