American Maritime Office contributions received by REFORM AMERICA FUND

American Maritime Office and Reform America Fund in one cell

AMERICAN MARITIME OFFICE is the grouped employer/industry key. REFORM AMERICA FUND is committee C00581934. This page reports itemized individual gifts that carried both labels. The $8,152,900 figure is the intersection. It is not a finding that a maritime union or a government maritime office wrote the checks, and it is not independent-expenditure spending by the Fund.

The stored string is OFFICE, not OFFICERS or OFFICER. Filers who typed AMERICAN MARITIME OFFICERS, AMO, or a vessel-operator name may sit in other buckets if stored that way. LobbyVault does not expand OFFICE into a labor-organization census. The committee ID is the other axis.

One hundred eighty contributions totaling $8,152,900 is a relatively thin line count against an $8.2 million cell.

Just over half of the American Maritime Office grouping

The AMERICAN MARITIME OFFICE grouping shows $15,609,542 in itemized individual money. The Reform America Fund cell is $8,152,900, or about 52% of that total. About 48% of the labeled money went to other committees. Those other dollars are nearly as large as this cell; the industry hub is split rather than owned by one recipient.

A 52% share is a slim majority. Slim majorities are still overlaps, not endorsements. Adjacent maritime employer keys are not folded into the $15,609,542.

180 contributions into C00581934

REFORM AMERICA FUND received $8,152,900 from AMERICAN MARITIME OFFICE-coded receipts across 180 contributions. Dividing dollars by gifts gives about $45,294 per contribution. That mean is pulled by large itemized amounts. The packet does not name the 180 lines or split them by cycle.

The committee overlay for C00581934 includes other employers. Those rows are not in this join. Independent expenditures by the Fund, if filed, are outside this source note.

Maritime labels are not federal award dollars

Maritime employers and agencies appear in USAspending and in Coast Guard or MARAD records. Those ledgers are not FEC individual contributions. This join does not claim that gifts to Reform America Fund funded shipbuilding awards, or that awards funded the gifts. Shared sector language across datasets is not a cash pipeline.

Correlation between a maritime-office employer string and a super PAC-style fund is a field match. Causation of labor or shipping policy is not in the table.

Hubs for the office string and the Fund

The American Maritime Office industry page keeps the $15,609,542 grouping. The REFORM AMERICA FUND page keeps C00581934. All industries ranks other maritime keys without merging OFFICERS into OFFICE. All FEC ties lists neighboring employer-committee cells so this 52% overlap is not mistaken for a union PAC total.

OFFICE versus OFFICERS is the kind of one-letter difference that splits maritime money across keys. This join's $8,152,900 and 180 lines apply to OFFICE as stored. A researcher who searched only OFFICERS would miss this cell. LobbyVault does not merge them here. About $45,294 per contribution is $8,152,900 divided by 180.

Slim majority, thin file: quoting 52% on 180 lines

Fifty-two percent of $15,609,542 is only a slim majority. The other 48% of AMERICAN MARITIME OFFICE-coded receipts went to other committees and is almost as large as this cell. Quoting $8,152,900 without the 52% share makes the Fund look like the only destination. Quoting 52% without the 180-line count hides that the dollars rest on a relatively thin file.

C00581934's overlay includes other employers. Those rows are not in the 180. Independent expenditures by REFORM AMERICA FUND, if filed, are other documents. Unitemized gifts are omitted. AMO as an abbreviation, if stored, is another key. Quote the employer string exactly, the committee ID, $8,152,900, 180 contributions, and the $15,609,542 grouping. Leave USAspending maritime awards off the citation. Keep OFFICE in the citation so an OFFICERS row, if indexed, is not merged. The 180-line count belongs next to $8,152,900 and the 52% share of $15,609,542. The leftover 48% is other committees, nearly as large as this cell. Unitemized gifts stay omitted.

Questions

How much did American Maritime Office-coded donors give Reform America Fund?

FEC.gov aggregates show $8,152,900 in itemized individual contributions grouped to AMERICAN MARITIME OFFICE and received by REFORM AMERICA FUND (C00581934). That join covers 180 contributions. The employer grouping across all committees is $15,609,542. These figures are not independent expenditures.

What share of that employer grouping went to Reform America Fund?

About 52% of the $15,609,542 AMERICAN MARITIME OFFICE total is in this join: $8,152,900 to C00581934. About 48% went to other committees. A slim majority describes overlap, not a certified labor-organization program.

Is AMERICAN MARITIME OFFICE the same as American Maritime Officers?

Only if the grouped employer text is AMERICAN MARITIME OFFICE. OFFICERS, AMO, and related names are other keys if stored separately. This page does not merge those strings into the $8,152,900. Figures are limited to the labeled join.

Does this include independent expenditures by Reform America Fund?

No. The source is itemized individual contributions grouped by employer/industry and recipient committee. Independent expenditures and operating costs are outside this join. Use the committee hub for C00581934 for other filing types.