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Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company political money — 2008 cycle

Donors listing Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company reported $923,976 in itemized individual contributions during the 2008 federal election cycle, according to FEC.gov aggregates. Those dollars arrived in 1,291 contributions from 283 donors. The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $6,205,638; the 2008 slice is about 14.9% of that running sum. The key is not a car-rental NAICS total and not an Enterprise PAC.

Key figures

  • Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company × 2008 is $923,976 in itemized individual contributions.
  • The cell includes 1,291 contributions from 283 donors.
  • 2008 is about 14.9% of the grouping’s $6,205,638 all-cycle total.
  • The label is filer-entered form text, not a car-rental NAICS total and not an Enterprise PAC.
  • FEC gifts and federal award files remain separate datasets.

Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company 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 — Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company and 2008 — sum to $923,976. 1,291 itemized contributions and 283 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 Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Two hundred eighty-three donors and 1,291 lines in 2008 sit under the full Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company employer string. Shorter ENTERPRISE brand rows are not inside this cell unless they grouped here. The hyphenation and Company suffix are part of the stored key. ENTERPRISE, ENTERPRISE RENT A CAR, ENTERPRISE HOLDINGS, and generic CAR RENTAL occupation strings are other keys if filers used them.

14.9% of the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $6,205,638 ($6.21 million). The 2008 slice of $923,976 is about 14.9% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 85.1% ($5,281,662). Treating 2008 as the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $6,205,638 as the denominator for the 14.9% 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 $6,205,638.

1,291 contributions from 283 donors

Dividing $923,976 by 1,291 contributions yields about $716 per itemized gift. Dividing by 283 donors yields about $3,265 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 4.6. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

283 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 Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company 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 Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $923,976.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $923,976 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 1,291 contributions, the 283 unique donors, and the 14.9% share of $6,205,638.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $923,976. 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 car-rental NAICS total and not an Enterprise PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 283 donors, and 1,291 contributions. The FEC does not certify that the 283 identities were on the company’s 2008 payroll. Alumni and household members who reuse the legal name can appear. USAspending vehicle or fleet awards are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company and 2008 together

Start with $923,976, then Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company, 2008, $923,976, 1,291 contributions, 283 donors, 14.9% of $6,205,638, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string ENTERPRISE RENT-A-CAR COMPANY.

The 14.9% share, the 283-donor count, and the $716 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 Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company donors give in 2008?
FEC.gov aggregates show $923,976 in itemized individual contributions for the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 1,291 contributions and 283 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $6,205,638 all-cycle figure.
What share of Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company FEC money is 2008?
The grouping’s all-cycle total is $6,205,638. The 2008 cell of $923,976 is about 14.9% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 85.1% ($5,281,662) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.
Is $923,976 the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company PAC total for 2008?
No. $923,976 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company in the 2008 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 1,291 contributions came from 283 donors.
Where is the overlay for the Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company 2008 join?
Open Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company 2008 for the cycle overlay, Enterprise Rent-A-Car Company 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.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle.