Fannie Mae and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Fannie Mae brand text × 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Fannie Mae and 2008 — sum to $508,650. The cell holds 636 itemized contributions and 196 unique donors. 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 Fannie Mae hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Fannie Mae on a 2008 receipt is brand text as typed, not a conservatorship roster and not a book of mortgage-backed securities. One hundred ninety-six donors are matching identities. Alumni who still wrote the brand share the cell with people who listed it as current employer. FNMA, FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, and FREDDIE MAC are other stored strings. This join does not recode those variants into the two-word brand.

11.9% of the Fannie Mae roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $4,259,050 ($4.3 million). The 2008 slice of $508,650 is about 11.9% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 88.1%. Treating 2008 as the Fannie Mae FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $4,259,050 as the denominator for the 11.9% 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 $4,259,050.

636 contributions from 196 donors

Dividing $508,650 by 636 contributions yields about $800 per itemized gift. Dividing by 196 donors yields about $2,595 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.2. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

196 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 Fannie Mae 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Fannie Mae 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 Fannie Mae to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $508,650 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 636 contributions, the 196 unique donors, and the 11.9% share of $4,259,050.

Brand spelling, not a housing-finance sector total

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $508,650. 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 mortgage-finance NAICS total and not the enterprise’s PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 196 donors, and 636 contributions. FNMA, FEDERAL NATIONAL MORTGAGE ASSOCIATION, and FREDDIE MAC are other stored strings. This join does not recode those variants into the two-word brand. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Fannie Mae and 2008 together

Start with $508,650, then Fannie Mae 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Fannie Mae, 2008, $508,650, 636 contributions, 196 donors, 11.9% of $4,259,050, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 11.9% share, the 196-donor count, and the $800 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 Fannie Mae donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $508,650 in itemized individual contributions for the Fannie Mae grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 636 contributions and 196 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $4,259,050 all-cycle figure.

What share of Fannie Mae FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $4,259,050. The 2008 cell of $508,650 is about 11.9% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 88.1% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Fannie Mae hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Does this include FNMA or Freddie Mac donors?

No. FNMA and FREDDIE MAC are separate grouped strings if filers used those labels. The $508,650 total is only receipts whose employer text grouped to Fannie Mae in 2008. LobbyVault does not merge acronym or sibling-GSE variants into this row.

Where is the overlay for the Fannie Mae 2008 join?

Open Fannie Mae 2008 for the cycle overlay, Fannie Mae 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.