Capital Group and the 2012 FEC election cycle

The Capital Group × 2012 join

LobbyVault stores FEC employer/industry strings separately from election cycles. Crossing them for Capital Group and 2012 yields $327,500. That is 113 itemized lines and 44 unique donors. The figure is not a committee’s reported disbursement. FEC.gov remains the underlying source.

Asset-manager employer text can collide with similar form text. This join uses the exact grouping CAPITAL GROUP. Related employer words, abbreviations, and occupation titles are not added. The 44 donor identities are contributor keys, not a headcount of a workforce.

Dropping either filter changes the story. Drop the year and you see $6,135,889. Drop the string and you see the entire 2012 cycle. This page holds both filters at once.

Lifetime Capital Group money versus 2012

A lifetime figure of $6,135,889 can swallow a single cycle if the join is skipped. 2012 is $327,500, about 5.3%. The leftover $5,808,389 belongs on other cycle pages for the same string, not in this cell.

$6,135,889 is still only this exact grouping. It is not every related company name and not a sector total. 5.3% describes 2012 inside Capital Group, nothing else. $6,135,889 is the running sum for exact string CAPITAL GROUP. 2012 contributes $327,500 (5.3%); the complement is $5,808,389 (94.7%). Changing one character in the employer field would move money to another grouping and change both the numerator and the denominator.

Means on $327,500

Packet arithmetic: $327,500 ÷ 113 ≈ $2,898 per contribution; $327,500 ÷ 44 ≈ $7,443 per donor; 113 ÷ 44 ≈ 2.6 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. 44 unique donors produced 113 itemized receipts. The implied 2.6 contributions per donor is a mean. This JSON file does not name those donors. The overlay is the row store.

What the 2012 election cycle hub still holds

Remove Capital Group and the 2012 cycle still contains every other grouping. This file does not add those dollars. Keep both keys if the question is CAPITAL GROUP in 2012: $327,500, 113 contributions, 44 donors.

Presidential-year and midterm-year cycles both use the same two-year tagging rule. This packet does not classify 2012 beyond the year number in the facts. The 2012 election cycle hub still contains every other employer string. This tie keeps Capital Group on. Without a cycle-wide total in the facts, $327,500 cannot be turned into a percent of national 2012 itemized giving.

FEC gifts are not federal awards

Capital Group entities can appear in federal contracting files. USAspending obligations are not these campaign gifts. This join does not claim that $327,500 funded federal work, or that federal work funded the gifts. Different datasets, same possible name collision.

Unitemized contributions never enter 113 or $327,500. Committee-to-committee transfers and independent expenditures live elsewhere. Cite FEC.gov for the itemized-individual join only. Unitemized individual gifts never enter $327,500. 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 CAPITAL GROUP, election cycle 2012, $327,500, 113 contributions, 44 donors (5.3% of $6,135,889 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 $327,500, the overlay controls. Internal links are the navigation: Capital Group 2012 for the overlay, Capital Group for other years, 2012 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: Capital Group in 2012 is $327,500 from 113 itemized individual contributions and 44 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $6,135,889 across cycles, so 2012 is about 5.3% and other windows hold $5,808,389 (94.7%). The grouping is asset-manager employer text, not a Capital Group PAC, a mutual-fund NAICS rollup, or the firm as a corporate treasury. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $2,898; mean per donor about $7,443; about 2.6 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2012 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $327,500.

Questions

How much did Capital Group donors give in 2012?

$327,500 is the itemized-individual total for CAPITAL GROUP in 2012. Volume: 113 contributions, 44 donors. Source FEC.gov. PAC spending and unitemized gifts are outside the cell. FEC.gov is the source for $327,500, 113 contributions, and 44 donors in the Capital Group × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,135,889.

What share of Capital Group FEC money is 2012?

2012 holds $327,500 of the $6,135,889 stored for Capital Group, roughly 5.3%. The leftover $5,808,389 is other windows on the Capital Group hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $327,500, 113 contributions, and 44 donors in the Capital Group × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,135,889.

Does this include only Capital Group employees?

The grouping is asset-manager employer text, not a verified roster. 113 itemized lines from 44 donors produced $327,500 in 2012. Employment status is not a field in this aggregate. FEC.gov is the source for $327,500, 113 contributions, and 44 donors in the Capital Group × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,135,889.

Where is the overlay for the Capital Group 2012 join?

Use the four packet hrefs: Capital Group 2012, Capital Group, 2012 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Live overlay rows sit on the first of those. This file explains $327,500 as the join. FEC.gov is the source for $327,500, 113 contributions, and 44 donors in the Capital Group × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,135,889.