Grant Thornton LLP and the 2014 FEC cycle

Grant Thornton LLP as stored text, 2014 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — GRANT THORNTON LLP and 2014 — sum to $308,865. 441 itemized contributions and 239 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. Cite FEC.gov for this intersection.

Neither the Grant Thornton LLP hub nor the 2014 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Grant Thornton LLP is accounting-firm employer text including the LLP suffix, not a verified payroll file. 239 donors and 441 lines in 2014 matched that stored string. The LLP token is part of this stored key. Dropping it is a different grouping. Two hundred thirty-nine donor identities produced 441 lines — a high identity count relative to dollars. Neighboring stored labels include GRANT THORNTON, GRANT THORNTON LLP., GT LLP, and named Grant Thornton member firms. LobbyVault does not merge those strings into $308,865.

The join exists so a reader does not treat $3,887,635 (all cycles for this string) as the 2014 story, and does not treat the 2014 cycle hub as a Grant Thornton LLP-only list. Two filters, one cell: $308,865.

7.9% of the Grant Thornton LLP roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $3,887,635. The 2014 slice of $308,865 is about 7.9% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.1% ($3,578,770). Treating 2014 as the entire Grant Thornton LLP FEC story would ignore that remainder. The industry hub is the year index for this string.

Treat $3,887,635 as the denominator for the 7.9% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. This tie keeps 2014 from being folded silently into $3,887,635. Neighboring spellings are not added into either figure. The 7.9% ratio is $308,865 divided by $3,887,635. Other even-year joins for GRANT THORNTON LLP are not listed in this packet; they collectively hold $3,578,770. Citing 2014 as if it were the Grant Thornton LLP lifetime total would overstate this cell by $3,578,770.

441 contributions from 239 donors

Dividing $308,865 by 441 contributions yields about $700 per itemized gift. Dividing by 239 donors yields about $1,292 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 1.8. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split. FEC.gov itemized individual receipts are the universe.

239 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. A mean of $700 per itemized line and $1,292 per donor can hide a few large receipts. The packet supplies no median. 441 contributions remaining larger than 239 donors is the expected pattern when identities give more than once.

2014 as the cycle dimension

The 2014 election cycle hub includes every stored employer and occupation for that window. Grant Thornton LLP is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2014 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Grant Thornton LLP to drop the year. 2014 is a midterm even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $308,865.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $308,865 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 441 contributions, the 239 unique donors, and the 7.9% share of $3,887,635. FEC cycle 2014 tags a two-year window. Odd-year receipts inside that window are in $308,865 if they were itemized against GRANT THORNTON LLP. This file does not publish a year-by-year split because the facts do not.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $308,865. 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 accounting-firm employer text including the LLP suffix, not a Grant Thornton PAC, GRANT THORNTON without LLP as a sibling, or an accounting NAICS rollup.

Correlation between an employer string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 239 donors, and 441 contributions. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. Live hubs override this snapshot. If the overlay disagrees, the overlay and FEC.gov control. Grant Thornton LLP as accounting-firm employer text including the LLP suffix can appear in contracting databases under similar names. Those obligation tables are not this $308,865. The join does not claim a payment trail from campaign gifts to federal awards or the reverse.

Citing Grant Thornton LLP and 2014 together

Start with $308,865, then Grant Thornton LLP 2014 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2014 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: GRANT THORNTON LLP, 2014, $308,865, 441 contributions, 239 donors, 7.9% of $3,887,635, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 7.9% share, the 239-donor count, and the $700 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling employer word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. 441 itemized contributions totaling $308,865 average about $700 per line. Unitemized gifts never appear. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

Questions

How much did Grant Thornton LLP donors give in 2014?

FEC.gov aggregates show $308,865 in itemized individual contributions for the Grant Thornton LLP grouping in the 2014 cycle, across 441 contributions and 239 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $3,887,635 all-cycle figure. Independent expenditures are not included.

What share of Grant Thornton LLP FEC money is 2014?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $3,887,635. The 2014 cell of $308,865 is about 7.9% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.1% ($3,578,770) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell.

Does this include only Grant Thornton LLP employees?

No. The bucket is the self-reported string GRANT THORNTON LLP. The FEC does not verify licenses, current jobs, or corporate identity. Related phrases may sit in other groupings. This join reports the string match for 2014 only, totaling $308,865 from 239 donors across 441 contributions.

Where is the overlay for the Grant Thornton LLP 2014 join?

Open Grant Thornton LLP 2014 for the cycle overlay, Grant Thornton LLP for the grouping hub, and the 2014 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.