BNSF Railway Company contributions received by BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY RAILPAC (BNSF RAILPAC)

BNSF Railway Company meeting BNSF RailPAC

BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY is the grouped employer key. BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY RAILPAC (BNSF RAILPAC) is committee C00235739. This page reports itemized individual gifts that carried both labels. The $6,590,305 figure is the intersection. Connected-PAC name overlap is expected for a railroad PAC. The join still exists so the $6,933,919 industry hub is not treated as identical to the PAC hub.

Filers who typed BNSF, BURLINGTON NORTHERN, SANTA FE, or a shop-town name may sit in other keys if stored separately. The parent Berkshire spelling, if present, is another row. This page stays on BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY as indexed.

One hundred thirteen thousand five hundred fifty-four contributions is a high-volume PAC file. Line count is not a headcount of railroad employees.

Ninety-five percent of the BNSF Railway Company grouping

The BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY grouping shows $6,933,919 in itemized individual money. The RailPAC cell is $6,590,305, or about 95% of that total. About 5% of BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY-coded receipts went to other committees. Those leftover dollars are on the industry hub.

A 95% share is typical of a tightly labeled connected PAC, not proof that the railroad directed every gift. Candidate committees still received a slice of the employer string. The 95% figure applies to this legal-name bucket only.

113,554 contributions and a $58 mean

BNSF RAILPAC received $6,590,305 from BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY-coded receipts across 113,554 contributions. Dividing dollars by gifts gives about $58 per contribution. High line counts and low means are common when payroll-style PAC deductions are itemized over many cycles.

Repeat givers raise the contribution count. The packet does not publish a unique-donor figure. The committee overlay for C00235739 also includes receipts whose employer field did not group to BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY.

Railroad employers and federal awards

BNSF appears in surface-transportation and USAspending records. Those award and grant dollars are not these PAC gifts. This join does not claim that RailPAC contributions funded federal rail projects, or that projects funded PAC contributions. FEC and USAspending share a railroad name, not a cash pipeline.

The employer field can lag a merger, a retirement, or a contractor badge. Correlation between a railway employer string and a connected PAC is a reporting pattern, not causation of freight-policy outcomes.

Pages that keep the railway and the RailPAC apart

The Bnsf Railway Company industry page keeps the $6,933,919 grouping and the other committees that received the remaining 5%. The RailPAC page keeps C00235739. All industries ranks other railroad keys. All FEC ties lists neighboring cells so this connected-PAC join is not mistaken for independent expenditures or for FRA grant totals.

The leftover 5% of $6,933,919 is BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY-coded money that did not go to RailPAC — small next to a 95% connected-PAC share, but not zero. The 113,554-line count and the $58 mean ($6,590,305 divided by 113,554) are the operational signature of a long-running railroad PAC file. Line count is not a headcount of BNSF employees.

Railroad legal name versus shorter BNSF keys

BNSF as four letters, BURLINGTON NORTHERN, and SANTA FE, if stored, are other keys. The 95% share ($6,590,305 of $6,933,919) applies to BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY only. A researcher who searched only BNSF might find a different total. Parent Berkshire spellings, if present, are other rows.

Unitemized gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures are omitted. Federal railroad grants and USAspending obligations that mention BNSF are omitted. Repeat givers raise 113,554 above any unique-person figure the packet does not publish. Quote C00235739, $6,590,305, 113,554 itemized lines, and the $6,933,919 grouping. Keep shorter railroad keys on the industry index. Keep RAILWAY COMPANY in the citation so a four-letter BNSF row, if indexed, remains separate. The 113,554-line count belongs next to $6,590,305 and the 95% share of $6,933,919. C00235739 is the recipient ID. Unitemized gifts stay omitted. Federal rail grants stay omitted.

Questions

How much did BNSF Railway Company-coded donors give BNSF RailPAC?

FEC.gov aggregates show $6,590,305 in itemized individual contributions grouped to BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY and received by BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY RAILPAC (C00235739). That join covers 113,554 contributions. The employer grouping across all committees is $6,933,919. These figures are not independent expenditures.

What share of BNSF Railway Company FEC money went to this PAC?

About 95% of the $6,933,919 BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY total is in this join: $6,590,305 to C00235739. The leftover share went to other committees. A near-total share describes overlap, not a finding that the railroad directed every gift.

Is this BNSF corporate political spending?

No. The total is itemized individual contributions whose employer text grouped to BNSF RAILWAY COMPANY and whose recipient is C00235739. Corporate treasury activity and independent expenditures are other FEC categories. The join does not merge those documents.

Do these PAC gifts fund federal rail grants or contracts?

No. FEC individual contributions and USAspending obligations are different datasets. Sharing a railroad name does not create a funding pipeline. This tie reports only the employer-committee intersection on itemized individual receipts.