Fidelity Investments and the 2014 FEC election cycle

Fidelity Investments is one axis; 2014 is the other

An industry-cycle page is not a restatement of Fidelity Investments and not a restatement of 2014. It is the cell where they meet: $388,240, 306 contributions, 131 donors. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle are the source note.

On the employer side, Fidelity Investments is asset-manager employer text. On the cycle side, 2014 is a two-year FEC window, not a single Election Day. Gifts dated in either year of that window sit in $388,240.

Leaving either axis off the citation misstates the record. $10,182,560 is the lifetime Fidelity Investments bucket. The 2014 hub is every grouping that year. The join is $388,240.

2014 is not the whole Fidelity Investments story

Fidelity Investments across all cycles is $10,182,560. Fidelity Investments in 2014 is $388,240 — about 3.8%. The gap is $9,794,320. Closing that gap would require other cycle joins, which this packet does not list.

A reader who only opens the 2014 overlay still sees $388,240 for this string, not $10,182,560. A reader who only opens the industry hub still needs the year filter to recover $388,240. 2014 holds $388,240 of $10,182,560 for this string — about 3.8%. Other cycles hold $9,794,320 (96.2%). Folding those other cycles into a 2014 citation would misstate the record by $9,794,320.

What 131 unique donors are not

131 unique donors are not a census of Fidelity Investments. They are the identities attached to 306 itemized rows that summed to $388,240. Mean gift $1,269; mean per donor $2,964; about 2.3 rows each.

Household reuse of a workplace string is common on FEC forms. That inflates neither $10,182,560 nor $388,240 with “extra companies”; it can inflate donor counts relative to a strict employee roster that this table does not have. 306 itemized contributions from 131 donors produced the cell. Unique donors are contributor keys, not employees counted by HR. This file does not invent names for those 131 identities.

How FEC cycle 2014 works on this join

Cycle 2014 is the second key in the join. Combined with FIDELITY INVESTMENTS, it produces $388,240. Combined with nothing, it is the year hub. Combined with a different string, it is a different tie.

Itemized receipts in either year of the window are in scope. Unitemized receipts are not. Independent expenditures are not. Those exclusions apply regardless of Fidelity Investments. The 2014 hub without Fidelity Investments is a different page. The Fidelity Investments hub without 2014 is a different page. Only the overlap is $388,240.

Outside $388,240: PACs, unitemized, awards

Outside $388,240: unitemized individual gifts, independent expenditures, PAC spending, and any federal award table. Inside $388,240: itemized individual receipts matching FIDELITY INVESTMENTS in cycle 2014.

The page is asset-manager employer text, not a Fidelity PAC, a mutual-fund NAICS rollup, or Fidelity as a corporate treasury. Naming those exclusions keeps the join from being read as a company political budget. Self-reported employer text splits across spellings. FIDELITY INVESTMENTS is the key used here. Related titles and legal names are other keys and are not added into $388,240 or $10,182,560.

Snapshot versus live overlay

JSON copy is written once from a packet. Hubs can refresh. If Fidelity Investments 2014 on the site shows a different total than $388,240, use the live overlay and FEC.gov. The canonical path for this explanation is the ties URL in the packet.

The body facts remain: FIDELITY INVESTMENTS × 2014 = $388,240, 306 contributions, 131 donors, 3.8% of $10,182,560. No other dollars are authorized. Use All FEC ties to find other two-dimension pages. Use Fidelity Investments 2014 for rows. This prose stays inside packet facts: $388,240, 306, 131, 3.8% of $10,182,560. Restating the join without new numbers: Fidelity Investments in 2014 is $388,240 from 306 itemized individual contributions and 131 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $10,182,560 across cycles, so 2014 is about 3.8% and other windows hold $9,794,320 (96.2%). The grouping is asset-manager employer text, not a Fidelity PAC, a mutual-fund NAICS rollup, or Fidelity as a corporate treasury. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $1,269; mean per donor about $2,964; about 2.3 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2014 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $388,240.

Questions

How much did Fidelity Investments donors give in 2014?

$388,240 is the itemized-individual total for FIDELITY INVESTMENTS in 2014. Volume: 306 contributions, 131 donors. Source FEC.gov. PAC spending and unitemized gifts are outside the cell. FEC.gov is the source for $388,240, 306 contributions, and 131 donors in the Fidelity Investments × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $10,182,560.

What share of Fidelity Investments FEC money is 2014?

2014 holds $388,240 of the $10,182,560 stored for Fidelity Investments, roughly 3.8%. The leftover $9,794,320 is other windows on the Fidelity Investments hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $388,240, 306 contributions, and 131 donors in the Fidelity Investments × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $10,182,560.

Does this include only Fidelity Investments employees?

The grouping is asset-manager employer text, not a verified roster. 306 itemized lines from 131 donors produced $388,240 in 2014. Employment status is not a field in this aggregate. FEC.gov is the source for $388,240, 306 contributions, and 131 donors in the Fidelity Investments × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $10,182,560.

Where is the overlay for the Fidelity Investments 2014 join?

Use the four packet hrefs: Fidelity Investments 2014, Fidelity Investments, 2014 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Live overlay rows sit on the first of those. This file explains $388,240 as the join. FEC.gov is the source for $388,240, 306 contributions, and 131 donors in the Fidelity Investments × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $10,182,560.