Google political money — 2008 cycle

Google as stored employer text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Google and 2008 — sum to $817,677. 577 itemized contributions and 253 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.

Neither the Google hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Two hundred fifty-three donors and 577 lines in 2008 sit under the one-word Google brand. Later parent-company labels are not recoded backward into this historical cell. MICROSOFT is a neighboring technology-employer string, not a share of this total. GOOGLE INC, GOOGLE LLC, ALPHABET, and YOUTUBE or other product-brand strings are other keys if filers typed them.

2.9% of the Google roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $28,141,117 ($28.1 million). The 2008 slice of $817,677 is about 2.9% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 97.1% ($27,323,440). Treating 2008 as the Google FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $28,141,117 as the denominator for the 2.9% 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 2008 from being folded silently into $28,141,117.

577 contributions from 253 donors

Dividing $817,677 by 577 contributions yields about $1,417 per itemized gift. Dividing by 253 donors yields about $3,232 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.3. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

253 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 Google 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Google is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Google to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $817,677.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $817,677 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 577 contributions, the 253 unique donors, and the 2.9% share of $28,141,117.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $817,677. 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 a Google PAC and not a software 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, 253 donors, and 577 contributions. The FEC does not certify current employment. Alumni who still wrote Google share the cell with people who listed it as current employer. Independent expenditures and the company’s PAC sit outside the $817,677 individual-receipt cell. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Google and 2008 together

Start with $817,677, then Google 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Google, 2008, $817,677, 577 contributions, 253 donors, 2.9% of $28,141,117, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string GOOGLE.

The 2.9% share, the 253-donor count, and the $1,417 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 Google donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $817,677 in itemized individual contributions for the Google grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 577 contributions and 253 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $28,141,117 all-cycle figure.

What share of Google FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $28,141,117. The 2008 cell of $817,677 is about 2.9% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 97.1% ($27,323,440) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Google hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $817,677 the Google PAC total for 2008?

No. $817,677 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to Google in the 2008 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 577 contributions came from 253 donors. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Google hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Google 2008 join?

Open Google 2008 for the cycle overlay, Google for the grouping hub, and the 2008 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.