Citigroup political money — 2008 cycle

Citigroup as stored employer text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Citigroup and 2008 — sum to $874,637. 689 itemized contributions and 365 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 Citigroup hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Three hundred sixty-five donors and 689 lines in 2008 sit under the one-word Citigroup brand. Truncated CITI or CITIBANK rows are neighboring keys. BANK OF AMERICA and DEUTSCHE BANK are other employer strings, not subsets of this cell. CITI, CITIBANK, CITIGROUP INC, and BANKER or INVESTMENT BANKER occupation strings are other keys if stored separately.

15.6% of the Citigroup roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $5,622,076 ($5.62 million). The 2008 slice of $874,637 is about 15.6% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 84.4% ($4,747,439). Treating 2008 as the Citigroup FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $5,622,076 as the denominator for the 15.6% 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 $5,622,076.

689 contributions from 365 donors

Dividing $874,637 by 689 contributions yields about $1,269 per itemized gift. Dividing by 365 donors yields about $2,396 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 1.9. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

365 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. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Citigroup 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Citigroup 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 Citigroup to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $874,637.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $874,637 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 689 contributions, the 365 unique donors, and the 15.6% share of $5,622,076.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $874,637. 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. The page is not a Citigroup PAC and not a banking NAICS total.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 365 donors, and 689 contributions. The 2008 window is a two-year FEC tag. It is not a TARP docket and not a proof of motive. Cite the stored brand, the cycle dollars, the 689 contributions, and the 365 donors. Stop before assigning a policy story the packet does not contain. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Citigroup and 2008 together

Start with $874,637, then Citigroup 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Citigroup, 2008, $874,637, 689 contributions, 365 donors, 15.6% of $5,622,076, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string CITIGROUP.

The 15.6% share, the 365-donor count, and the $1,269 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.

Questions

How much did Citigroup donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $874,637 in itemized individual contributions for the Citigroup grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 689 contributions and 365 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $5,622,076 all-cycle figure.

What share of Citigroup FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $5,622,076. The 2008 cell of $874,637 is about 15.6% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 84.4% ($4,747,439) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Citigroup hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $874,637 the Citigroup PAC total for 2008?

No. $874,637 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to Citigroup in the 2008 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 689 contributions came from 365 donors. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Citigroup hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Citigroup 2008 join?

Open Citigroup 2008 for the cycle overlay, Citigroup 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.