Bain Capital and the 2010 FEC election cycle

Bain Capital crossed with 2010

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Bain Capital and 2010 — sum to $328,023. 99 itemized contributions and 43 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. BAIN CAPITAL is grouped employer text. The 2010 filter keeps receipts in that cycle whose employer field collapsed to this key. It does not list funds, portfolio companies, or Form ADV registrations.

Neither the Bain Capital hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. The Bain Capital hub is the year index for this string. BAIN & COMPANY consulting labels and PRIVATE EQUITY occupation titles stay on their own keys if stored separately. Federal awards to portfolio firms on USAspending are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts.

3.8% of the Bain Capital roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $8.6 million ($8,559,241). The 2010 slice of $328,023 is about 3.8% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.2%. Treating 2010 as the Bain Capital FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $8,559,241 as the denominator for the 3.8% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2010 from being folded silently into $8,559,241.

99 contributions from 43 donors

Dividing $328,023 by 99 contributions yields about $3,313 per itemized gift. Dividing by 43 donors yields about $7,628 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.3. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

43 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 Bain Capital 2010 holds the rows.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Bain Capital 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 Bain Capital to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $328,023 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 99 contributions, the 43 unique donors, and the 3.8% share of $8,559,241.

Limits of the Bain Capital × 2010 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $328,023. 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 not a private-equity AUM figure and not a Bain Capital PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 43 donors, and 99 contributions. BAIN CAPITAL LLC, BAIN & COMPANY, and generic PRIVATE EQUITY occupation strings are other keys if stored separately. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Bain Capital and 2010 together

Start with $328,023, then Bain Capital 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Bain Capital, 2010, $328,023, 99 contributions, 43 donors, 3.8% of $8,559,241, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 3.8% share, the 43-donor count, and the $3,313 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.

Questions

How much did Bain Capital donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $328,023 in itemized individual contributions for the Bain Capital grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 99 contributions and 43 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $8,559,241 all-cycle figure. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

What share of Bain Capital FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $8,559,241. The 2010 cell of $328,023 is about 3.8% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.2% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Bain Capital hub holds other cycles; the 2010 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Bain Capital’s PAC or an official account?

No. $328,023 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Bain Capital. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup unless an individual receipt itself carries the string. The key is not a private-equity AUM figure and not a Bain Capital PAC.

Where is the overlay for the Bain Capital 2010 join?

Open Bain Capital 2010 for the cycle overlay, Bain Capital 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. Original filings remain on FEC.gov.