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Amway Corp and the 2014 FEC election cycle

Donors listing Amway Corp reported $980,300 in itemized individual contributions during the 2014 federal election cycle, according to FEC.gov aggregates. Those dollars arrived in 112 contributions from 12 donors. The figure is a slice of the Amway Corp employer grouping, not a company PAC and not a ranking of direct-sales firms. This page joins that Corp string to the 2014 two-year window so a 12-person cell can sit beside a near-million-dollar total without being mistaken for a distributor census. Twelve donors and about 9.3 lines each produced $980,300; independent distributors who listed their own d/b/a never reach this Corp key. Do not treat twelve Corp-string donors as a census of independent distributors.

Key figures

  • Amway Corp × 2014 is $980,300 in itemized individual contributions.
  • The cell includes 112 contributions from 12 donors.
  • 2014 is about 7.3% of the grouping’s $13,362,883 all-cycle total.
  • Employer text is self-reported; the sum is not a corporate PAC.
  • The page joins two FEC dimensions and does not assign motive.

Amway Corp crossed with the 2014 midterm

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Amway Corp and 2014 — sum to $980,300. The total is not an official company disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $13,362,883. The 2014 slice is about 7.3% of that running sum. A midterm window that accounts for roughly one-fourteenth of the key’s history is a real cell. It is not a substitute for the unfiltered Amway Corp hub, and it is not a ranking against other consumer-goods strings.

How the Corp string is matched

Filers type employer text. Amway Corp collects strings that match this legal-style name. People who wrote Amway without Corp, a parent holding name, or an independent-distributor d/b/a may land on neighboring keys. This join does not merge those neighbors. Cite only what this key recorded in 2014.

Twelve donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of a direct-sales network. Independent distributors who listed their own business name would not appear here. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace can appear. The Commission does not certify employment.

Treat $13,362,883 as the denominator for the 7.3% share. It is not a company valuation and not proof of a multi-year corporate program. Neighboring keys keep their own denominators.

112 contributions from 12 donors

Dividing $980,300 by 112 contributions yields about $8,753 per itemized gift. Dividing by 12 donors yields about $81,692 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 9.3 — a high repeat-itemization ratio compared with mass occupation buckets. Those means are not medians and not a party split.

Twelve donors is small enough that a few identities can move the mean. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count, which is why 112 and 12 should be read as a pair. The overlay for Amway Corp 2014 is the row view. Do not read $81,692 as a typical distributor’s political budget. About 9.3 lines per donor among twelve Corp-string identities is a high repeat-itemization ratio and must not be quoted as twelve hundred distributors.

2014 without a direct-sales ranking

The 2014 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Amway Corp is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Midterm volume belongs on the cycle hub.

Open the 2014 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Amway Corp to drop the year. All FEC ties lists other relationship pages that must not inherit these 12 donors.

Limits of the Amway Corp join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $980,300. Federal contracts in USAspending are a different dataset. Sharing a consumer-goods name and a calendar year does not fund those awards with these gifts.

Correlation between a Corp employer string and a midterm cycle is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 12 donors, and 112 contributions. Distribution-network outcomes are not in the table.

Carrying 12 donors only inside 2014

Start with $980,300, then Amway Corp 2014 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2014 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. That path keeps two filters and one cell.

The 7.3% share, the 12-donor count, and the $8,753 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them into another year and they stop being facts from this packet. One hundred twelve contributions at about $8,753 per gift and a 7.3 percent share of $13,362,883 belong to Amway Corp in 2014. Parent holding names and Amway without Corp are other strings if filers typed them. Direct-sales networks are not a workforce count in this cell.

Questions

How much did Amway Corp donors give in 2014?
FEC.gov aggregates show $980,300 in itemized individual contributions for the Amway Corp grouping in 2014, across 112 contributions and 12 donors. That sum is not a company PAC total.
Are these 12 donors the whole Amway network?
No. They are contributor identities whose employer field matched Amway Corp. Independent distributors who listed another business name are absent from this cell. The Commission does not certify employment.
What share of Amway Corp FEC money is 2014?
The grouping’s all-cycle total is $13,362,883. The 2014 cell of $980,300 is about 7.3% of that figure. Other cycles are not listed on this page.
Where is the overlay for this join?
Open Amway Corp 2014 for the cycle overlay, Amway Corp for the grouping hub, and the 2014 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle.