Financial Services donations in the 2014 FEC cycle

The Financial Services × 2014 join

LobbyVault stores FEC occupation strings separately from election cycles. Crossing them for Financial Services and 2014 yields $490,741. That is 331 itemized lines and 175 unique donors. The figure is not a committee’s reported disbursement. FEC.gov remains the underlying source.

Occupation strings can collide with similar form text. This join uses the exact grouping FINANCIAL SERVICES. Related titles, abbreviations, and employer names are not added. The 175 donor identities are contributor keys, not a headcount of a workforce. Banker, financial advisor, investment banker, and finance sit elsewhere.

Dropping either filter changes the story. Drop the year and you see $7,119,440. Drop the string and you see the entire 2014 cycle. This page holds both filters at once. FINANCIAL SERVICES is a sector-style occupation string, not a firm name. Banker and financial advisor sit in other rows if those are the words typed.

The occupation string FINANCIAL SERVICES

A lifetime figure of $7,119,440 can swallow a single cycle if the join is skipped. 2014 is $490,741, 6.9%. The leftover $6,628,699 belongs on other cycle pages for the same string, not in this cell.

$7,119,440 is still only this exact grouping. It is not every related title and not a sector total. 6.9% describes 2014 inside Financial Services, nothing else. This join does not recode FINANCIAL SERVICES into a NAICS 52 sector rollup, a FINRA roster, or a bank holding-company census.

Volume: 331 lines, 175 identities

Packet arithmetic: $490,741 ÷ 331 ≈ $1,483 per contribution; $490,741 ÷ 175 ≈ $2,804 per donor; 331 ÷ 175 ≈ 1.9 contributions per donor. None of those figures is a median, a mode, or a party breakdown.

The Commission’s itemized-individual universe excludes unitemized gifts. Adding those would change the means. This join does not add them. Banker, financial advisor, investment banker, and finance are other keys and would change the means if merged.

What the 2014 election cycle hub still holds

Remove Financial Services and the 2014 cycle still contains every other grouping. This file does not add those dollars. Keep both keys if the question is FINANCIAL SERVICES in 2014: $490,741, 331 contributions, 175 donors.

Midterm-year cycles use the same two-year tagging rule as presidential years. This packet classifies 2014 only as the year number in the facts. Retail banking versus wealth management versus capital markets is unpublished.

What the Commission does not verify

FEC occupation fields are typed by filers. FINANCIAL SERVICES is stored as written for this grouping. The Commission does not verify employment, professional licenses, or corporate identity on this aggregate. Financial Services here is not a NAICS 52 sector rollup, a FINRA roster, or a bank holding-company census.

PAC filings, independent expenditures, and unitemized gifts are other tables. USAspending obligations are another database entirely. $490,741 does not fund federal awards, and federal awards do not explain $490,741. Two datasets can share a year without sharing a payment trail.

Where to go next from Financial Services in 2014

Start with $490,741, then Financial Services 2014 for rows, then the occupation hub or the 2014 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. All occupations lists banker, financial advisor, investment banker, and finance as separate titles. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Do not add bank and securities-industry PAC filings into the footnote. Those are committee filings. The individual-contribution cell remains $490,741 on 331 receipts from 175 donors.

Repeat the join in one line for researchers: occupation FINANCIAL SERVICES ∩ cycle 2014 = $490,741 itemized individual contributions, 331 receipts, 175 donors, 6.9% of $7,119,440. Neighbors remain banker, financial advisor, investment banker, and finance. Unpublished split: retail banking versus wealth management versus capital markets. Not recoded into a NAICS 52 sector rollup, a FINRA roster, or a bank holding-company census. Source remains FEC.gov. FINANCIAL SERVICES is a sector-style occupation string, not a firm name. Banker and financial advisor sit in other rows if those are the words typed.

Questions

How much FEC money is tagged Financial Services in 2014?

Filers who listed Financial Services itemized $490,741 in FEC individual contributions in 2014, from 331 receipts and 175 donors. That is 6.9% of $7,119,440 under FINANCIAL SERVICES. Banker, financial advisor, investment banker, and finance are other keys when those are the words on the form. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Is $490,741 a PAC total for Financial Services?

No. $490,741 is individual contributions tagged Financial Services in 2014. Bank and securities-industry PAC filings file as committees. Mixing PAC spending with $490,741 would blend FEC tables. See Financial Services donations or the 2014 election cycle hub for committee names. Financial Services in 2014 is $490,741 on 331 receipts from 175 donors.

Is Financial Services the same as banker?

No. FEC.gov stores the occupation as typed. This join uses FINANCIAL SERVICES. Banker, financial advisor, investment banker, and finance are other keys when those characters appear. LobbyVault does not recode the string into a NAICS 52 sector rollup, a FINRA roster, or a bank holding-company census. Cite $490,741 for this title in 2014 on 331 receipts from 175 donors.

Is this the Financial Services hub or the 2014 hub?

Financial Services donations ($7.1 million for the string) and the 2014 election cycle. The overlap is $490,741 from 331 receipts and 175 donors. All FEC ties lists other occupation-cycle cells. All occupations lists neighboring titles. Figures are FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates for Financial Services in 2014.