Ford Motor Company political money — 2012 cycle

Two keys: FORD MOTOR COMPANY and 2012

Drop either key and the number changes. Drop 2012 and the Ford Motor Company hub shows $5,741,013. Drop Ford Motor Company and the 2012 hub shows every other stored employer for that window — a total this packet does not publish. Keep both keys and the extract returns $537,906 on 1,500 lines from 280 donors. Cite FEC.gov for the intersection; do not treat either hub as a substitute for the join.

1,500 itemized lines from 280 donors is a high-volume cell for one employer string. It is still not an employee census. Exact string matching is the method. FORD, FORD MOTOR, FORD MOTOR CO, and named Ford affiliates are not rolled into $537,906. LobbyVault does not recode filer text into NAICS. Cite FEC.gov.

Section 1 states the relationship. Later sections unpack the lifetime grouping, the receipt arithmetic, the two-year window, and the caveats. The overlay Ford Motor Company 2012 is the row view of this cell.

Lifetime Ford Motor Company dollars versus the 2012 slice

$5,741,013 minus $537,906 leaves $5,203,107 in other cycles, or 90.6% of the stored book. 9.4% is the 2012 share. A share is a quotient, not a trend claim. This packet has no prior-cycle dollar for comparison, so no percent change is stated. Other even-year amounts are not invented here.

$5,741,013 is not revenue, not assets, and not a political budget. It is the sum of itemized individual contributions that grouped to FORD MOTOR COMPANY in this table. The Ford Motor Company hub is the place to see other years. This tie exists so 2012 is not swallowed by that lifetime figure.

Volume inside the Ford Motor Company 2012 cell

About $359 per contribution and about $1,921 per donor follow from dividing $537,906 by 1,500 and by 280. Lines per donor average about 5.4. High line counts relative to identities usually mean repeat gifts; low line counts can mean fewer repeats. Those readings are still arithmetic, not a donor strategy. They are not medians and not a party split.

This page does not name donors. 280 is a count. Retirees and relatives can share a stored workplace. Unitemized gifts are absent. PAC disbursements are a different FEC table and are not inside $537,906.

2012 is a two-year FEC tag

On FEC.gov, 2012 is a presidential cycle covering two calendar years. Searchers who want a single November figure will not find that split here. Both years of the window can feed $537,906. Dates live on the overlay, not in this snapshot. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number.

Open 2012 election cycle for the year without the Ford Motor Company filter. Open Ford Motor Company for the string without the year. Open All FEC ties for other two-dimension pages. Those four hrefs are the internal map for this join.

Caveats that travel with the dollars

The page is not a Ford PAC, a corporate treasury gift, or an auto-manufacturing NAICS total. Sharing Ford Motor Company and 2012 does not create a federal award. USAspending is a different dataset. Do not add $537,906 to obligation totals. Do not treat $537,906 as proof of influence. A join is two fields. Independent expenditures and PAC disbursements remain outside this cell.

If FEC.gov or the live hubs later show a different $537,906, 1,500, or 280, the newer extract wins. Neighboring strings — FORD, FORD MOTOR, FORD MOTOR CO, and named Ford affiliates — remain other pages. This file stays on one employer/industry grouping and one cycle.

Citation line for Ford Motor Company, 2012

Ford Motor Company, 2012, $537,906, 1,500 itemized individual contributions, 280 donors, 9.4% of $5,741,013, source FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle. Keep FORD MOTOR COMPANY as the stored label. Keep neighboring spellings out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

Then link Ford Motor Company 2012, Ford Motor Company, 2012 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Do not present this JSON as a filing. It is a packet snapshot of one cell.

Questions

How many Ford Motor Company contributions were itemized in 2012?

1,500 itemized individual contributions from 280 donors sum to $537,906 for the stored string FORD MOTOR COMPANY in the 2012 cycle. Those counts are extract fields, not a payroll census and not a PAC total. Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

What is the all-cycle Ford Motor Company total?

$5,741,013 across every cycle in this table. The 2012 join of $537,906 is about 9.4% of that figure. Other cycles hold $5,203,107. The industry hub is the year index; this page is one year cell for the same stored string.

Does Ford Motor Company include FORD?

Not in $537,906. Only FORD MOTOR COMPANY is in this cell. FORD, FORD MOTOR, FORD MOTOR CO, and named Ford affiliates are other keys unless they grouped to this exact string. LobbyVault does not merge them into a sector total on this page. Exact-match grouping is the method.

Can Ford Motor Company donations be read as 2012 federal contracts?

No. FEC individual contributions and USAspending awards do not fund each other in this dataset. $537,906 is Schedule A itemized giving grouped to FORD MOTOR COMPANY. The packet publishes no award amount and no contract identifier. Cite FEC.gov. FORD MOTOR COMPANY in 2012 is $537,906 on 1,500 itemized receipts from 280 donors; the all-cycle grouping is $5,741,013.