Ethyl Corp political contributions from Richmond, VA
Itemized FEC individual contributions that stored employer grouping ETHYL CORP and contributor city RICHMOND total $18,400, on 13 receipts from 9 donors. Richmond, VA's unfiltered city book is $89,411,164 across 231,271 contributions. The two figures are not substitutes. FEC.gov is the originating system. Filer-entered city and employer fields drive the join.
Key figures
- $18,400 on 13 receipts from 9 donors is the Ethyl Corp × Richmond, VA join.
- Richmond's all-industry book is $89,411,164 across 231,271 contributions.
- ETHYL CORP is an exact filer-entered employer string.
- Means of about $1,415 per receipt and $2,044 per donor are arithmetic only.
- FEC.gov controls if a later extract revises the join.
The Ethyl Corp × Richmond, VA relationship
Section 1 is the pair, not a restatement of either hub. $18,400 appears only where ETHYL CORP and RICHMOND (state VA) sit on the same Schedule A line. LobbyVault's Richmond, VA page is every employer string in that city field. The Ethyl Corp page is that employer string in every city. This ties page is both keys together.
Thirteen receipts and 9 donors produced $18,400. A donor can generate multiple itemizations. 9 donors is the published headcount for this extract, not a plant roster and not a count of every chemist in Richmond. Mean per receipt is about $1,415; mean per donor is about $2,044. Both are quotients of packet facts.
ETHYL CORP is the literal stored label. Nearby spellings, successor-company names, and job titles are other keys unless the filer typed this exact string. $18,400 does not absorb those other keys. City labels are filer-entered; RICHMOND is not recoded to a Census place or merged with Richmond, California in this file.
Richmond, VA without the employer filter
Richmond, VA shows $89,411,164 on 231,271 city-field contributions when industry is not filtered. $18,400 is under 0.1% of that city total. A small share follows from exact-string matching: most Richmond lines carry other employer text. The packet does not publish a chemicals-sector roll-up. Do not treat $18,400 as Richmond's manufacturing industry.
Richmond is a Virginia city string, distinct from other Virginia city labels. Virginia campaign finance is the state parent, not an addend. Adding $18,400 to the Virginia hub would double-count if the same tape already includes these rows. All FEC ties is the index of other joins, not a sum of this cell.
Ethyl Corp rows that are not Richmond
Donors who stored ETHYL CORP in another city are on the industry hub and off this page. Donors in Richmond who stored a different employer string are on the city hub and off this page. The packet's industry-side facts for the published pair are $18,400, 13 contributions, and 9 donors.
Committees, parties, and election cycles are unpublished for this overlap. If those cuts exist, they live on the live Ethyl Corp hub or the live Richmond, VA hub. This prose will not invent them. Keep both nouns when quoting $18,400.
Limits of the $18,400 Richmond cell
$18,400 excludes unitemized federal gifts, Virginia state filings, and independent expenditures. It is not a chemical-output figure and not a payroll. PAC street addresses that stored RICHMOND and ETHYL CORP are treated like any other address in the city field. LobbyVault does not guess motive from 13 receipts.
Correlation is not causation. Nine donors and $18,400 do not show that Ethyl Corp sets Richmond elections. If a later FEC extract revises $18,400, 13 receipts, or 9 donors, the newer extract controls. This page is a snapshot of the join, not a second disclosure regime.
Doors out of the Richmond × Ethyl Corp join
Use Richmond, VA, Ethyl Corp, Virginia campaign finance, and All FEC ties. Those four hrefs are the packet's internal links. FEC Schedule A is not USAspending. Do not fold $18,400 into federal awards coded to Virginia. Different statutes, different forms.
Cite the pair: Ethyl Corp and Richmond, VA. $18,400 is already inside $89,411,164. Adding the join to the city book would double-count. 231,271 is the city-field line count, not the donor count for this employer string. The join's donor count is 9.
How to cite the Richmond × Ethyl Corp facts
Citation template: employer/industry grouping ETHYL CORP, contributor city Richmond, VA, $18,400 on 13 itemized individual contributions from 9 donors, against a city-wide $89,411,164 on 231,271 contributions (under 0.1% of city dollars). Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. City labels are filer-entered.
Then send the reader to the live Richmond, VA hub, the Ethyl Corp industry page, Virginia campaign finance, and All FEC ties. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live hubs control. This file stays on one city and one employer string.
Questions
- How much did Ethyl Corp donors in Richmond, VA contribute?
- This extract records $18,400 on 13 itemized individual receipts from 9 donors where the stored industry is ETHYL CORP and the stored city is RICHMOND. That is not Richmond's $89,411,164 all-industry book. Source: FEC.gov.
- Is Ethyl Corp the same as every Richmond chemical-firm employer?
- No. Only the exact string ETHYL CORP is in $18,400. Other employer spellings and job titles are other keys. Nine donors and 13 receipts follow the exact-match rule. LobbyVault does not recode the employer field.
- What share of Richmond, VA itemized dollars is this string?
- $18,400 is under 0.1% of $89,411,164 on 231,271 Richmond city-field contributions. A thin share is the usual result of exact employer matching. Quote both totals. Do not recast under 0.1% as a chemicals-sector ranking.
- Does $18,400 from Ethyl Corp in Richmond pay for federal grants there?
- No. The series is FEC individual contributions. USAspending awards are a different dataset. This packet publishes no obligation dollars. Geography on a contribution line does not convert the gift into an award.
FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by donor city and employer/industry grouping. City labels are filer-entered.