Bank of America and the 2014 FEC election cycle

Bank of America crossed with 2014

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Bank of America and 2014 — sum to $476,175. 463 itemized contributions and 213 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. This page joins the employer grouping Bank of America to cycle 2014; it is not a restatement of either hub alone.

Neither the Bank of America hub nor the 2014 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. 213 unique donors and 463 lines in 2014 sit under the stored string BANK OF AMERICA. BANK OF AMERICA CORP, BOA, MERRILL LYNCH, and BANKAMERICA stay on their own keys if filers used them. Treasury, Ginnie Mae, or other financial-services USAspending rows are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

4.1% of the Bank of America roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $11,582,158 ($11.6 million). The 2014 slice of $476,175 is about 4.1% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 95.9%, or $11,105,983. Treating 2014 as the Bank of America FEC story would ignore that remainder. Quote $476,175 when the sentence is about 2014. Quote $11,582,158 when the sentence is about the grouping across cycles. Do not add those two dollar figures; the first is already inside the second.

Treat $11,582,158 as the denominator for the 4.1% 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 2014 from being folded silently into $11,582,158. 4.1% is $476,175 divided by $11,582,158. Rounding to $476,175 and $11.6 million does not create extra facts. Use exact integers in a table. Use the rounded forms only as headlines of those same integers.

463 contributions from 213 donors

Dividing $476,175 by 463 contributions yields about $1,028 per itemized gift. Dividing by 213 donors yields about $2,236 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.2. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Bank Of America 2014 holds the rows.

213 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. Unitemized gifts never appear in $476,175. State-office campaigns never enter this cell. A later amendment can restate a large transfer while most of the 463 small lines stay put. After quarterly filings, reread the live overlay. If that hub and this snapshot disagree, FEC.gov controls.

2014 as the cycle dimension

The 2014 election cycle hub includes every stored employer or occupation 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 2014 election cycle to drop the employer grouping filter and Bank of America to drop the year. FEC cycle 2014 covers 2013–2014. A gift dated in the odd year and a gift dated in the even year can share the $476,175 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 463 contributions, the 213 unique donors, and the 4.1% share of $11,582,158. Comparing Bank of America in 2014 to another grouping requires that other grouping’s cycle hub. This packet has one grouping and one cycle.

Limits of the Bank of America × 2014 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $476,175. Treasury, Ginnie Mae, or other financial-services USAspending rows are different datasets. Sharing an employer or occupation string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. Correlation between a stored string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 213 donors, and 463 contributions.

BANK OF AMERICA CORP, BOA, MERRILL LYNCH, and BANKAMERICA are other keys if stored separately. LobbyVault does not merge neighboring spellings into BANK OF AMERICA. The key is not a Bank of America headcount, not a bank-holding-company 10-K, and not a Bank of America PAC. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. A ranking of industries for 2014 is a different page — the 2014 election-cycle index — not a homemade sort of this file.

Citing Bank of America and 2014 together

Start with $476,175, then Bank Of America 2014 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2014 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Bank of America, 2014, $476,175, 463 contributions, 213 donors, 4.1% of $11,582,158, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 4.1% share, the 213 donors count, and the $1,028 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling string 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. Do not print a 2014 share of US politics from $476,175. The denominator for 4.1% is $11,582,158, the Bank of America grouping in this extract, not every itemized dollar on FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Bank of America donors give in 2014?

FEC.gov aggregates show $476,175 in itemized individual contributions for the Bank of America grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 463 contributions and 213 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $11,582,158 all-cycle figure. Cite FEC.gov for the Bank of America × 2014 join.

What share of Bank of America FEC money is 2014?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $11,582,158. The 2014 cell of $476,175 is about 4.1% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 95.9% ($11,105,983) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Bank of America hub holds other cycles.

Is this Bank of America’s PAC or an official account?

No. $476,175 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Bank of America. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup. The key is not a Bank of America headcount, not a bank-holding-company 10-K, and not a Bank of America PAC. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Where is the overlay for the Bank of America 2014 join?

Open Bank Of America 2014 for the cycle overlay, Bank Of America for the grouping hub, and the 2014 election cycle for the year without this filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.