Deutsche Bank political money — 2008 cycle

Deutsche Bank 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 — Deutsche Bank and 2008 — sum to $807,575. 437 itemized contributions and 218 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 Deutsche Bank hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Two hundred eighteen donors and 437 lines in 2008 sit under the two-word Deutsche Bank employer string. The AG suffix, if typed, can land in a neighboring key. U.S. bank brands typed instead of Deutsche Bank stay on their own pages. DEUTSCHE BANK AG, DB, CITIGROUP, BANK OF AMERICA, and BANKER occupation strings are other keys if stored separately.

20.7% of the Deutsche Bank roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $3,910,743 ($3.91 million). The 2008 slice of $807,575 is about 20.7% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 79.3% ($3,103,168). Treating 2008 as the Deutsche Bank FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $3,910,743 as the denominator for the 20.7% 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 $3,910,743.

437 contributions from 218 donors

Dividing $807,575 by 437 contributions yields about $1,848 per itemized gift. Dividing by 218 donors yields about $3,704 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.0. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

218 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 Deutsche Bank 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Deutsche Bank 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 Deutsche Bank to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $807,575.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $807,575 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 437 contributions, the 218 unique donors, and the 20.7% share of $3,910,743.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $807,575. 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 Deutsche Bank 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, 218 donors, and 437 contributions. A 218-donor cell is contributor identities, not a headcount of the bank’s 2008 payroll. Household members who reuse the workplace can appear. Federal awards in other databases remain a different dataset. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Deutsche Bank and 2008 together

Start with $807,575, then Deutsche Bank 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Deutsche Bank, 2008, $807,575, 437 contributions, 218 donors, 20.7% of $3,910,743, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string DEUTSCHE BANK.

The 20.7% share, the 218-donor count, and the $1,848 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 Deutsche Bank donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $807,575 in itemized individual contributions for the Deutsche Bank grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 437 contributions and 218 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $3,910,743 all-cycle figure.

What share of Deutsche Bank FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $3,910,743. The 2008 cell of $807,575 is about 20.7% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 79.3% ($3,103,168) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Deutsche Bank hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $807,575 the Deutsche Bank PAC total for 2008?

No. $807,575 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to Deutsche Bank in the 2008 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 437 contributions came from 218 donors. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Deutsche Bank hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Deutsche Bank 2008 join?

Open Deutsche Bank 2008 for the cycle overlay, Deutsche Bank 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.