Capital Group political money — 2008 cycle

The join, not the Capital Group hub

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Capital Group (CAPITAL GROUP) and 2008 — sum to $351,170. 110 itemized contributions and 47 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 Capital Group hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. CAPITAL GROUP is the stored employer string. CAPITAL GROUP COS, THE CAPITAL GROUP, CAPITAL RESEARCH, and CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL are other keys if they exist. Forty-seven unique donors produced a cell near the Sales 2008 dollar size with far fewer lines. The packet does not name those donors. LobbyVault does not merge neighboring spellings into $351,170. This URL exists because the two dimensions meet.

2008 as a slice of $6.1 million

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $6,135,889 ($6.1 million). The 2008 slice of $351,170 is about 5.7% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 94.3% ($5,784,719). Treating 2008 as the Capital Group FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $6,135,889 as the denominator for the 5.7% 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 $6,135,889.

Donor count versus contribution count

Dividing $351,170 by 110 contributions yields about $3,192 per itemized gift. Dividing by 47 donors yields about $7,472 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.

47 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, members, or licensees. 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 Capital Group 2008 holds the rows. This packet does not publish donor names; do not invent them.

Reading the 2008 election-cycle hub

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Capital Group 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 Capital Group to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $351,170.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $351,170 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 110 contributions, the 47 unique donors, and the 5.7% share of $6,135,889.

Unitemized gifts and other omitted files

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $351,170. 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. FEC individual contributions are not USAspending obligations. Do not add $351,170 to federal spending figures.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 47 donors, and 110 contributions. CAPITAL GROUP is the stored employer string. CAPITAL GROUP COS, THE CAPITAL GROUP, CAPITAL RESEARCH, and CAPITAL INTERNATIONAL are other keys if they exist. Forty-seven unique donors produced a cell near the Sales 2008 dollar size with far fewer lines. The packet does not name those donors. Cite the exact stored string CAPITAL GROUP crossed with 2008. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Keep Capital Group and 2008 in one sentence

Start with $351,170, then Capital Group 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Capital Group, 2008, $351,170, 110 contributions, 47 donors, 5.7% of $6,135,889, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string CAPITAL GROUP.

The 5.7% share, the 47-donor count, and the $3,192 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.

Filer-entered text is noisy. CAPITAL GROUP is the grouping that survived that noise for this extract. Other punctuation of the same workplace is omitted.

Questions

How much itemized money sits at CAPITAL GROUP in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $351,170 in itemized individual contributions for the Capital Group grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 110 contributions and 47 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $6,135,889 all-cycle figure. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

How much of the $6.1 million Capital Group book is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $6,135,889. The 2008 cell of $351,170 is about 5.7% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 94.3% ($5,784,719) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Capital Group hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Are these Capital Group PAC transfers in 2008?

No. $351,170 is itemized individual contributions whose employer or occupation field grouped to Capital Group (CAPITAL GROUP) in the 2008 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 110 contributions came from 47 donors. Do not invent those names from the grouping label.

Which hub drops the 2008 filter?

Open Capital Group 2008 for the cycle overlay, Capital Group 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. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov controls.