Bank of America political money — 2008 cycle

Bank of America as stored employer text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Bank of America and 2008 — sum to $847,569. 948 itemized contributions and 456 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.

Neither the Bank of America hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Four hundred fifty-six donors and 948 lines in 2008 sit under the three-word Bank of America employer string. Merrill Lynch as a stored name is a different key even when corporate history later joined the brands. This join does not recode those neighbors. BOA, BofA, BANK OF AMERICA CORP, MERRILL LYNCH, and BANKER occupation strings are other keys if filers used them.

7.3% of the Bank of America roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $11,582,158 ($11.6 million). The 2008 slice of $847,569 is about 7.3% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.7% ($10,734,589). Treating 2008 as the Bank of America FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $11,582,158 as the denominator for the 7.3% 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 2008 from being folded silently into $11,582,158.

948 contributions from 456 donors

Dividing $847,569 by 948 contributions yields about $894 per itemized gift. Dividing by 456 donors yields about $1,859 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.1. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

456 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 Bank of America 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Bank of America is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Bank of America to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $847,569.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $847,569 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 948 contributions, the 456 unique donors, and the 7.3% share of $11,582,158.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $847,569. 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 Bank of America PAC and not a banking NAICS total.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 456 donors, and 948 contributions. CITIGROUP and DEUTSCHE BANK remain other employer pages. Occupation titles BANKER and INVESTMENT BANKER are not added here. The overlay lists itemized rows for the exact Bank of America string in 2008. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Bank of America and 2008 together

Start with $847,569, then Bank of America 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Bank of America, 2008, $847,569, 948 contributions, 456 donors, 7.3% of $11,582,158, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string BANK OF AMERICA.

The 7.3% share, the 456-donor count, and the $894 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 Bank of America donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $847,569 in itemized individual contributions for the Bank of America grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 948 contributions and 456 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $11,582,158 all-cycle figure.

What share of Bank of America FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $11,582,158. The 2008 cell of $847,569 is about 7.3% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.7% ($10,734,589) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Bank of America hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $847,569 the Bank of America PAC total for 2008?

No. $847,569 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to Bank of America in the 2008 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 948 contributions came from 456 donors. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Bank of America hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Bank of America 2008 join?

Open Bank of America 2008 for the cycle overlay, Bank of America for the grouping hub, and the 2008 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.