Finance political contributions in the 2010 FEC cycle

Finance receipts isolated to 2010

Two FEC dimensions meet here: occupation FINANCE and the 2010 election cycle. The intersection is $2,118,501 ($2.1 million), 1,517 contributions, and 821 donors. 3.3% of Finance occupation dollars ($63,396,379) fall in 2010.

The 2010 cycle is an even-year FEC window, a midterm-year cycle in federal itemized receipts. This page does not add later cycles into the 2010 dollars. FINANCE is a one-word occupation, closer to a sector word than a job title. FINANCIAL ADVISOR and INVESTMENTS remain separate. The join does not assign employers or NAICS codes.

$63,396,379 is the Finance all-cycle total

On the occupation side, $63,396,379 is the Finance total across cycles. Sibling labels (FINANCIAL ADVISOR, INVESTMENTS, and BANKER) stay on other pages. Finance is not a NAICS finance-sector total, a bank PAC, or a household-finance AUM figure.

All occupations lists other titles without adding them to $63,396,379. The Finance donations page holds the all-cycle occupation table that $2,118,501 is a slice of.

2010 cycle dollars versus the Finance occupation total

The 2010 election cycle hub holds itemized individual receipts for every occupation coded to that even-year window. This tie keeps only Finance. $2,118,501 is therefore not a cycle-wide total. FEC.gov labels this even-year federal window 2010. It is not a 2012 presidential-year filter or a 2014 midterm-year filter.

1,517 contributions from 821 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. The page does not publish an average gift. $2,118,501, 1,517, and 821 are the three cycle-side facts. Unitemized federal gifts never enter $2,118,501. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are a different FEC schedule and are not a second way to count $2,118,501. Three numbers define the Finance × 2010 cell: dollars $2,118,501, contribution rows 1,517, unique donors 821. Share of occupation dollars is 3.3% of $63,396,379.

Public-record limits for Finance in 2010

Matching Finance with 2010 does not measure influence, does not assign party, and does not say Finance donors caused an electoral result. Correlation between an occupation string and a cycle is not causation. The table is also not a NAICS finance-sector total, a bank PAC, or a household-finance AUM figure.

Itemized individual contributions from FEC.gov only. Independent expenditures, unitemized gifts, and state-office campaigns are excluded. Occupation labels are filer-entered. FINANCE is a one-word occupation, closer to a sector word than a job title. FINANCIAL ADVISOR and INVESTMENTS remain separate. The join does not assign employers or NAICS codes. This join does not publish a party split, a recipient-committee list, or employer text. If a reader only needs the occupation, the Finance donations hub is $63,396,379; the 2010 election cycle hub is the even-year inventory across titles. Do not add those hubs together.

Linked Finance and 2010 pages

Finance donations holds the $63,396,379 occupation total. The 2010 election cycle page holds every occupation in that window, not only Finance. All occupations places FINANCE beside other titles without merging sibling strings (FINANCIAL ADVISOR, INVESTMENTS, and BANKER). All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle pairs so $2,118,501 is not added to a different year.

Use the occupation hub for all-cycle Finance dollars ($63,396,379). Use the 2010 cycle hub for the even-year window across titles. Use this tie for the intersection only: $2,118,501, 1,517 contributions, 821 donors, 3.3% of occupation dollars. Those four internal links are the only hrefs this copy may use: Finance donations, the 2010 election cycle, all occupations, and all FEC ties. Keep FINANCE as the occupation key and 2010 as the cycle key when joining files. FEC.gov remains the controlling source if a later extract disagrees with $2,118,501.

Finance 2010 versus other LobbyVault cuts

Occupation-by-state joins for Finance are different pages and different dollars. This tie is occupation-by-cycle. $2,118,501 is not a state total and not a committee total.

All FEC ties is the inventory for those other pairs. All occupations is the inventory for titles. Neither page should be summed into $2,118,501. Sibling strings (FINANCIAL ADVISOR, INVESTMENTS, and BANKER) remain outside $2,118,501. Independent expenditures remain outside $2,118,501.

Questions

How much did Finance donors give in 2010?

FEC itemized individual contributions from donors listing occupation FINANCE in the 2010 cycle total $2,118,501, from 1,517 contributions and 821 donors. Nationwide across cycles, Finance-coded receipts are $63,396,379. 2010 is 3.3% of those occupation dollars. Source: FEC.gov.

Is Finance 2010 money a PAC total?

No. This join is itemized individual contributions grouped by occupation and election cycle. Committee PACs and independent expenditures are not in $2,118,501 or in the $63,396,379 occupation figure used here. FINANCE here is an occupation string on individual contributions, not a NAICS finance-sector roll-up. The 2010 join is $2,118,501 from 1,517 contributions and 821 donors.

Is Finance a NAICS industry total?

No. FINANCE here is an occupation string on individual contributions, not a NAICS finance-sector roll-up. The 2010 cycle filter on Finance is $2,118,501, 1,517 contributions, and 821 donors. The occupation total across cycles is $63,396,379. Labels are filer-entered on FEC.gov itemized receipts.

Why 1,517 Finance contributions and 821 donors in 2010?

The 2010 join includes 1,517 itemized contributions from 821 donors totaling $2,118,501. 1,517 contributions from 821 donors is closer to one-to-two itemized gifts per person inside this cycle filter, still not a headcount of the occupation. The page does not name donors or split rows by committee. Unique-donor count is not a census of the occupation.