Deutsche Bank and the 2014 FEC election cycle

Reading $296,015 as an intersection

$296,015 is the amount that survives both filters. The employer filter is Deutsche Bank (DEUTSCHE BANK). The cycle filter is 2014. FEC.gov itemized individual contributions supply the dollars, the 145 lines, and the 70 donors.

Because the grouping is bank employer text, the cell is a text match. Household members, retirees, and former workers can reuse a workplace or title. AG and Securities suffixes are other employer keys. DEUTSCHE alone is too short to treat as this cell. The 2014 join is the stored string DEUTSCHE BANK. Neighboring stored labels include DEUTSCHE BANK AG, DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES, DB, and DEUTSCHE. LobbyVault does not merge those strings into $296,015. The Commission does not audit those claims on this aggregate.

Use the industry hub when the question is every cycle for Deutsche Bank. Use the 2014 election cycle when the question is every string that year. Use this tie when the question is both.

The $3,910,743 denominator

Divide $296,015 by $3,910,743 and the result is about 7.6%. The complementary share is 92.4%, or $3,614,728 outside 2014. Those two pieces add to the grouping total on FEC.gov as stored here.

$3,910,743 is not earnings, assets, or federal contract value. It is summed itemized individual contributions that matched DEUTSCHE BANK in any cycle in this table. The denominator $3,910,743 is every cycle stored for DEUTSCHE BANK, not revenue and not assets. $296,015 over $3,910,743 is about 7.6%. The leftover $3,614,728 is other even-year windows on the Deutsche Bank hub.

$2,041 per contribution, $4,229 per donor

Per-gift mean $2,041 and per-donor mean $4,229 follow from $296,015, 145, and 70. About 2.1 itemized lines per donor is the third ratio. Report them as means, not as typical gifts.

Contributor identities can include people who listed DEUTSCHE BANK as employer or occupation without a current job match. The FEC form is self-reported. Means: $2,041 per itemized contribution, $4,229 per unique donor, 2.1 contributions per donor. Report them as arithmetic on $296,015, 145, and 70. They are not medians.

Cycle tag versus calendar year

Calendar year 2014 and FEC cycle 2014 are easy to confuse. The stored tag is the cycle. Both years of the window can feed $296,015. This prose does not split them because the packet does not.

Deutsche Bank remains one grouping among many on the 2014 hub. This join does not list siblings. All FEC ties is the directory of other two-dimension pages. 2014 is a midterm even-year window on FEC.gov. 2014 as a cycle tag includes the odd year paired with that even year. This packet does not split those years. $296,015 is the two-year cell.

Correlation is not a spending trail

A shared year and a shared employer word are not a causal chain. $296,015 is the itemized-individual overlap. It is not proof that Deutsche Bank as an organization directed the gifts, and it is not proof that the gifts bought federal contracts.

All FEC ties collects other joins. Live overlay numbers win if they disagree with this snapshot. FEC.gov remains the originating public record. PAC filings sit outside $296,015. So do independent expenditures and unitemized gifts. So do USAspending obligations. The page is bank employer text, not a Deutsche Bank PAC, DEUTSCHE BANK AG as a longer sibling, or a banking NAICS rollup.

Using the four internal links

Four hrefs cover the join: the 2014 overlay for this string, the Deutsche Bank industry hub, the 2014 election cycle hub, and the ties index. Together they let a reader add or remove one filter at a time without leaving FEC itemized-individual space.

This snapshot recorded $296,015 from 145 contributions and 70 donors. Live pages can move. FEC.gov is the originating filing system. Citation order that preserves the join: dollars first ($296,015), then both keys (Deutsche Bank, 2014), then volume (145 contributions, 70 donors), then source (FEC.gov). Restating the join without new numbers: Deutsche Bank in 2014 is $296,015 from 145 itemized individual contributions and 70 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $3,910,743 across cycles, so 2014 is about 7.6% and other windows hold $3,614,728 (92.4%). The grouping is bank employer text, not a Deutsche Bank PAC, DEUTSCHE BANK AG as a longer sibling, or a banking NAICS rollup.

Questions

How much did Deutsche Bank donors give in 2014?

The Deutsche Bank × 2014 cell is $296,015. FEC.gov counted 145 itemized individual contributions from 70 unique donors. That is the join, not the $3,910,743 lifetime grouping total and not a committee disbursement. FEC.gov is the source for $296,015, 145 contributions, and 70 donors in the Deutsche Bank × 2014 cell.

What share of Deutsche Bank FEC money is 2014?

About 7.6%. $296,015 divided by $3,910,743 is the 2014 share for this exact string. $3,614,728 (92.4%) sits in other cycles. No national 2014 denominator is in the packet. FEC.gov is the source for $296,015, 145 contributions, and 70 donors in the Deutsche Bank × 2014 cell.

Does this include only Deutsche Bank employees?

No. 70 unique donors matched DEUTSCHE BANK in 2014. Retirees, household members, and former workers can reuse the string. Neighboring spellings are other keys. The total remains $296,015. FEC.gov is the source for $296,015, 145 contributions, and 70 donors in the Deutsche Bank × 2014 cell.

Where is the overlay for the Deutsche Bank 2014 join?

The overlay path is the Deutsche Bank 2014 link. The industry hub drops the year. The 2014 election cycle drops the string. All FEC ties is the directory of joins. Dollars: $296,015. FEC.gov is the source for $296,015, 145 contributions, and 70 donors in the Deutsche Bank × 2014 cell.