Fidelity Investments and the 2012 FEC election cycle

Fidelity Investments crossed with 2012

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Fidelity Investments and 2012 — sum to $719,447. 463 itemized contributions and 235 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 Fidelity Investments hub nor the 2012 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Two hundred thirty-five donors and 463 Fidelity Investments lines in 2012 sit under the two-word asset-manager brand. A shorter FIDELITY key is a neighbor if filers omitted Investments. Fund AUM and 13F holdings are not this table. The FEC does not certify that the 235 identities were on a 2012 W-2 file. FIDELITY, FMR, FIDELITY MANAGEMENT, and generic INVESTMENTS occupation strings are other keys.

7.1% of the Fidelity Investments roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $10,182,560 ($10.2 million). The 2012 slice of $719,447 is about 7.1% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.9%. Treating 2012 as the Fidelity Investments FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $10,182,560 as the denominator for the 7.1% 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 2012 from being folded silently into $10,182,560.

463 contributions from 235 donors

Dividing $719,447 by 463 contributions yields about $1,554 per itemized gift. Dividing by 235 donors yields about $3,061 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.

235 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 Fidelity Investments 2012 holds the rows.

2012 as the cycle dimension

The 2012 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Fidelity Investments is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2012 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Fidelity Investments to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $719,447 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 463 contributions, the 235 unique donors, and the 7.1% share of $10,182,560.

Limits of the Fidelity Investments × 2012 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $719,447. 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 securities NAICS total and not a Fidelity PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 235 donors, and 463 contributions. FIDELITY, FMR, FIDELITY MANAGEMENT, and generic INVESTMENTS occupation strings are other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Fidelity Investments and 2012 together

Start with $719,447, then Fidelity Investments 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Fidelity Investments, 2012, $719,447, 463 contributions, 235 donors, 7.1% of $10,182,560, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 7.1% share, the 235-donor count, and the $1,554 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 Fidelity Investments donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $719,447 in itemized individual contributions for the Fidelity Investments grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 463 contributions and 235 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $10,182,560 all-cycle figure.

What share of Fidelity Investments FEC money is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $10,182,560. The 2012 cell of $719,447 is about 7.1% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.9% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Fidelity Investments hub holds other cycles; the 2012 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Fidelity Investments’s PAC or an official account?

No. $719,447 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Fidelity Investments. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup unless an individual receipt itself carries the string. The key is not a securities NAICS total and not a Fidelity PAC.

Where is the overlay for the Fidelity Investments 2012 join?

Open Fidelity Investments 2012 for the cycle overlay, Fidelity Investments for the grouping hub, and the 2012 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.