Ford Motor Company and the 2010 FEC election cycle

Ford Motor Company crossed with 2010

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Ford Motor Company and 2010 — sum to $470,130. 1,519 itemized contributions and 217 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. This page joins the employer grouping Ford Motor Company to cycle 2010; it is not a restatement of either hub alone.

Neither the Ford Motor Company hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. 217 unique donors and 1,519 lines in 2010 sit under the stored string FORD MOTOR COMPANY. FORD, FORD MOTOR, FORD MOTOR CO, and LINCOLN MERCURY stay on their own keys if filers used them. DoD vehicle, GSA fleet, or other automotive USAspending rows are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

8.2% of the Ford Motor Company roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $5,741,013 ($5.7 million). The 2010 slice of $470,130 is about 8.2% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 91.8%, or $5,270,883. Treating 2010 as the Ford Motor Company FEC story would ignore that remainder. Quote $470,130 when the sentence is about 2010. Quote $5,741,013 when the sentence is about the grouping across cycles. Do not add those two dollar figures; the first is already inside the second.

Treat $5,741,013 as the denominator for the 8.2% 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 2010 from being folded silently into $5,741,013. 8.2% is $470,130 divided by $5,741,013. Rounding to $470,130 and $5.7 million does not create extra facts. Use exact integers in a table. Use the rounded forms only as headlines of those same integers.

1,519 contributions from 217 donors

Dividing $470,130 by 1,519 contributions yields about $309 per itemized gift. Dividing by 217 donors yields about $2,166 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 7.0. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Ford Motor Company 2010 holds the rows.

217 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. Unitemized gifts never appear in $470,130. State-office campaigns never enter this cell. A later amendment can restate a large transfer while most of the 1,519 small lines stay put. After quarterly filings, reread the live overlay. If that hub and this snapshot disagree, FEC.gov controls.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer or occupation for that window. Ford Motor Company is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer grouping filter and Ford Motor Company to drop the year. FEC cycle 2010 covers 2009–2010. A gift dated in the odd year and a gift dated in the even year can share the $470,130 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 1,519 contributions, the 217 unique donors, and the 8.2% share of $5,741,013. Comparing Ford Motor Company in 2010 to another grouping requires that other grouping’s cycle hub. This packet has one grouping and one cycle.

Limits of the Ford Motor Company × 2010 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $470,130. DoD vehicle, GSA fleet, or other automotive USAspending rows are different datasets. Sharing an employer or occupation string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. Correlation between a stored string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 217 donors, and 1,519 contributions.

FORD, FORD MOTOR, FORD MOTOR CO, and LINCOLN MERCURY are other keys if stored separately. LobbyVault does not merge neighboring spellings into FORD MOTOR COMPANY. The key is not a Ford Motor Company payroll, not a vehicle-sales NAICS total, and not a Ford PAC. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. A ranking of industries for 2010 is a different page — the 2010 election-cycle index — not a homemade sort of this file.

Citing Ford Motor Company and 2010 together

Start with $470,130, then Ford Motor Company 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Ford Motor Company, 2010, $470,130, 1,519 contributions, 217 donors, 8.2% of $5,741,013, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 8.2% share, the 217 donors count, and the $309 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling string 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. Do not print a 2010 share of US politics from $470,130. The denominator for 8.2% is $5,741,013, the Ford Motor Company grouping in this extract, not every itemized dollar on FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Ford Motor Company donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $470,130 in itemized individual contributions for the Ford Motor Company grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 1,519 contributions and 217 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $5,741,013 all-cycle figure. Cite FEC.gov for the Ford Motor Company × 2010 join.

What share of Ford Motor Company FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $5,741,013. The 2010 cell of $470,130 is about 8.2% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 91.8% ($5,270,883) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Ford Motor Company hub holds other cycles.

Is this Ford Motor Company’s PAC or an official account?

No. $470,130 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Ford Motor Company. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup. The key is not a Ford Motor Company payroll, not a vehicle-sales NAICS total, and not a Ford PAC. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Where is the overlay for the Ford Motor Company 2010 join?

Open Ford Motor Company 2010 for the cycle overlay, Ford Motor Company for the grouping hub, and the 2010 election cycle for the year without this filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.