Goldman Sachs political money — 2010 cycle

Goldman Sachs as stored text, 2010 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Goldman Sachs and 2010 — sum to $2,358,833. 1,489 itemized contributions and 530 unique donors produced it. The total is not a corporate treasury gift and is not the company’s PAC. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Goldman Sachs hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Goldman Sachs is an employer string, not a verified employee census and not the firm’s PAC. 530 donors and 1,489 lines in 2010 matched that employer text. GOLDMAN SACHS & CO, GS, GOLDMAN, and other bank spellings sit in other keys if filers typed them that way. This page is the stored string GOLDMAN SACHS.

LobbyVault keeps this two-key page so a reader can open Goldman Sachs 2010 without treating the industry hub as a cycle total or the 2010 cycle hub as an employer total. The overlay at the Goldman Sachs 2010 path holds the itemized rows for this cell. This prose publishes the packet snapshot: $2,358,833, 1,489 contributions, 530 donors, and 5.4% of $44,049,682.

5.4% of the Goldman Sachs roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $44,049,682. The 2010 slice of $2,358,833 is about 5.4% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 94.6% ($41,690,849). Treating 2010 as the Goldman Sachs FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $44,049,682 as the denominator for the 5.4% 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 $44,049,682.

A 5.4% cell can sit next to larger or smaller even-year windows on the same Goldman Sachs hub. This packet does not publish those other cycle dollars, so they are not cited here. Open Goldman Sachs to drop the year filter. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter.

1,489 contributions from 530 donors

Dividing $2,358,833 by 1,489 contributions yields about $1,584 per itemized gift. Dividing by 530 donors yields about $4,451 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.8. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

530 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. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Goldman Sachs 2010 holds the rows.

1,489 is a receipt count, not a unique-person census beyond the 530 donor figure already in the packet. A person who gave twice is two lines inside the 1,489. Unitemized gifts never appear in $2,358,833.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Goldman Sachs 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 filter and Goldman Sachs to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $2,358,833 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 1,489 contributions, the 530 unique donors, and the 5.4% share of $44,049,682.

2010 is a midterm federal cycle on FEC.gov. That calendar label does not explain $2,358,833. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix beyond the stored string GOLDMAN SACHS. Cite the two packet dollars — $2,358,833 for the 2010 slice and $44,049,682 for the Goldman Sachs book — and stop before assigning motive.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $2,358,833. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not Goldman Sachs PAC disbursements and not a securities NAICS total.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 530 donors, and 1,489 contributions. GOLDMAN SACHS & CO, GS, GOLDMAN, and other bank spellings sit in other keys if filers typed them that way. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Do not read $2,358,833 as proof that Goldman Sachs “drove” the 2010 cycle or that 2010 “drove” the Goldman Sachs book. The join is two fields. If the live hubs disagree with $2,358,833 or 530 donors, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Citing Goldman Sachs and 2010 together

Start with $2,358,833, then Goldman Sachs 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Goldman Sachs, 2010, $2,358,833, 1,489 contributions, 530 donors, 5.4% of $44,049,682, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string GOLDMAN SACHS.

The 5.4% share, the 530-donor count, and the $1,584 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word 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.

Questions

How much did Goldman Sachs-listed donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $2,358,833 in itemized individual contributions for the Goldman Sachs grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 1,489 contributions and 530 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $44,049,682 all-cycle figure.

What share of Goldman Sachs FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $44,049,682. The 2010 cell of $2,358,833 is about 5.4% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 94.6% ($41,690,849) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Goldman Sachs hub holds other cycles; the 2010 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $2,358,833 the Goldman Sachs PAC total for 2010?

No. $2,358,833 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to GOLDMAN SACHS in the 2010 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 1,489 contributions came from 530 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Goldman Sachs 2010 join?

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