Boeing political money — 2008 cycle

The Boeing × 2008 join

LobbyVault stores FEC employer/industry strings separately from election cycles. Crossing them for Boeing and 2008 yields $284,511. That is 464 itemized lines and 225 unique donors. The figure is not a committee’s reported disbursement. FEC.gov remains the underlying source.

Aerospace employer text can collide with similar form text. This join uses the exact grouping BOEING. THE BOEING COMPANY is a longer sibling string. Division names are other keys. Federal aerospace awards in USAspending are a different dataset and are not funded by these itemized gifts. Neighboring stored labels include THE BOEING COMPANY, BOEING CO, BOEING CORPORATION, and named Boeing divisions. LobbyVault does not merge those strings into $284,511. The 225 donor identities are contributor keys, not a headcount of a workforce.

Dropping either filter changes the story. Drop the year and you see $14,415,064. Drop the string and you see the entire 2008 cycle. This page holds both filters at once.

Lifetime Boeing money versus 2008

A lifetime figure of $14,415,064 can swallow a single cycle if the join is skipped. 2008 is $284,511, about 2.0%. The leftover $14,130,553 belongs on other cycle pages for the same string, not in this cell.

$14,415,064 is still only this exact grouping. It is not every related company name and not a sector total. 2.0% describes 2008 inside Boeing, nothing else. $14,415,064 is the running sum for exact string BOEING. 2008 contributes $284,511 (2.0%); the complement is $14,130,553 (98.0%). Changing one character in the employer field would move money to another grouping and change both the numerator and the denominator.

Means on $284,511

Packet arithmetic: $284,511 ÷ 464 ≈ $613 per contribution; $284,511 ÷ 225 ≈ $1,264 per donor; 464 ÷ 225 ≈ 2.1 contributions per donor. None of those figures is a median, a mode, or a party breakdown.

The Commission’s itemized-individual universe excludes unitemized gifts. Adding those would change the means. This join does not add them. 225 unique donors produced 464 itemized receipts. The implied 2.1 contributions per donor is a mean. This JSON file does not name those donors. The overlay is the row store.

What the 2008 election cycle hub still holds

Remove Boeing and the 2008 cycle still contains every other grouping. This file does not add those dollars. Keep both keys if the question is BOEING in 2008: $284,511, 464 contributions, 225 donors.

Presidential-year and midterm-year cycles both use the same two-year tagging rule. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov. This packet does not classify 2008 beyond that calendar label and the year number in the facts. The 2008 election cycle hub still contains every other employer string. This tie keeps Boeing on. Without a cycle-wide total in the facts, $284,511 cannot be turned into a percent of national 2008 itemized giving.

FEC gifts are not federal awards

Boeing entities can appear in federal contracting files. USAspending obligations are not these campaign gifts. This join does not claim that $284,511 funded federal work, or that federal work funded the gifts. Different datasets, same possible name collision.

Unitemized contributions never enter 464 or $284,511. Committee-to-committee transfers and independent expenditures live elsewhere. Cite FEC.gov for the itemized-individual join only. Unitemized individual gifts never enter $284,511. Independent expenditures and PAC disbursements are other FEC tables. USAspending is a different database. Sharing a company-like string does not merge those ledgers.

A citation template for this join

Suggested citation: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, employer/industry grouping BOEING, election cycle 2008, $284,511, 464 contributions, 225 donors (2.0% of $14,415,064 stored for the string).

Do not append NAICS codes, USAspending dollars, or named donors. Those facts are not in the packet. If a later overlay revises $284,511, the overlay controls. Internal links are the navigation: Boeing 2008 for the overlay, Boeing for other years, 2008 election cycle for other strings, All FEC ties for other joins. The canonical explanation path is the ties URL in the packet. Restating the join without new numbers: Boeing in 2008 is $284,511 from 464 itemized individual contributions and 225 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $14,415,064 across cycles, so 2008 is about 2.0% and other windows hold $14,130,553 (98.0%). The grouping is aerospace employer text, not a Boeing PAC, THE BOEING COMPANY as a longer sibling, or USAspending awards to Boeing entities.

Questions

How much did Boeing donors give in 2008?

$284,511 is the itemized-individual total for BOEING in 2008. Volume: 464 contributions, 225 donors. Source FEC.gov. PAC spending and unitemized gifts are outside the cell. FEC.gov is the source for $284,511, 464 contributions, and 225 donors in the Boeing × 2008 cell.

What share of Boeing FEC money is 2008?

2008 holds $284,511 of the $14,415,064 stored for Boeing, roughly 2.0%. The leftover $14,130,553 is other windows on the Boeing hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $284,511, 464 contributions, and 225 donors in the Boeing × 2008 cell.

Does this include only Boeing employees?

The grouping is aerospace employer text, not a verified roster. 464 itemized lines from 225 donors produced $284,511 in 2008. Employment status is not a field in this aggregate. FEC.gov is the source for $284,511, 464 contributions, and 225 donors in the Boeing × 2008 cell.

Where is the overlay for the Boeing 2008 join?

Use the four packet hrefs: Boeing 2008, Boeing, 2008 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Live overlay rows sit on the first of those. This file explains $284,511 as the join. FEC.gov is the source for $284,511, 464 contributions, and 225 donors in the Boeing × 2008 cell.