Credit Suisse and the 2012 FEC election cycle

Credit Suisse crossed with 2012

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Credit Suisse and 2012 — sum to $717,670. 412 itemized contributions and 216 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 Credit Suisse hub nor the 2012 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Two hundred sixteen donors and 412 Credit Suisse lines in 2012 sit under the two-word bank brand. First Boston Corp is a related historical spelling with its own 2012 cell and is not merged here. Successor or abbreviated CS labels stay on their own keys if stored separately. CREDIT SUISSE GROUP, CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES, CSFB, FIRST BOSTON CORP, and generic BANKER occupation strings are other keys.

18.5% of the Credit Suisse roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $3,880,425 ($3.9 million). The 2012 slice of $717,670 is about 18.5% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 81.5%. Treating 2012 as the Credit Suisse FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $3,880,425 as the denominator for the 18.5% 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 2012 from being folded silently into $3,880,425.

412 contributions from 216 donors

Dividing $717,670 by 412 contributions yields about $1,742 per itemized gift. Dividing by 216 donors yields about $3,323 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.

216 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 Credit Suisse 2012 holds the rows.

2012 as the cycle dimension

The 2012 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Credit Suisse is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2012 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Credit Suisse to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $717,670 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 412 contributions, the 216 unique donors, and the 18.5% share of $3,880,425.

Limits of the Credit Suisse × 2012 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $717,670. 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 banking NAICS total and not a Credit Suisse PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 216 donors, and 412 contributions. CREDIT SUISSE GROUP, CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES, CSFB, FIRST BOSTON CORP, and generic BANKER occupation strings are other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Credit Suisse and 2012 together

Start with $717,670, then Credit Suisse 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Credit Suisse, 2012, $717,670, 412 contributions, 216 donors, 18.5% of $3,880,425, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 18.5% share, the 216-donor count, and the $1,742 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 Credit Suisse donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $717,670 in itemized individual contributions for the Credit Suisse grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 412 contributions and 216 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $3,880,425 all-cycle figure.

What share of Credit Suisse FEC money is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $3,880,425. The 2012 cell of $717,670 is about 18.5% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 81.5% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Credit Suisse hub holds other cycles; the 2012 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Credit Suisse’s PAC or an official account?

No. $717,670 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Credit Suisse. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup unless an individual receipt itself carries the string. The key is not a banking NAICS total and not a Credit Suisse PAC.

Where is the overlay for the Credit Suisse 2012 join?

Open Credit Suisse 2012 for the cycle overlay, Credit Suisse for the grouping hub, and the 2012 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.