Greylock Partners and the 2012 FEC election cycle
The Greylock Partners employer grouping recorded $1,081,850 in itemized individual contributions in the 2012 FEC cycle, according to FEC.gov aggregates. Those dollars arrived in eight contributions from two donors. Greylock Partners is the matched partnership string, not a ranking of venture firms and not a fund PAC. This page joins that key to the 2012 two-year window so a two-person, eight-line cell can be read as an overlap — including a 28.1% share of the grouping’s stored history, the largest cycle share in this batch. Eight contributions and a 28.1 percent share of a relatively small $3,853,862 grouping total explain why this two-donor cell looks large as a percentage without being a national venture ranking.
Key figures
- Greylock Partners × 2012 equals $1,081,850 in itemized individual contributions.
- Two donors made 8 contributions in that cell.
- 2012 is about 28.1% of the grouping’s $3,853,862 all-cycle total.
- The key is a self-reported partnership string, not a fund treasury line.
- The page is a two-table join, not a ranking of venture firms.
Two donors where Greylock meets 2012
Eight itemized contributions and two identities produce the entire $1,081,850. That is four lines per donor if split evenly, and about $135,231 per contribution if the dollars are divided by eight. The join includes only rows whose employer text rolled up to Greylock Partners and whose dates fall in 2012. Drop either filter and the dollar figure no longer applies.
Across cycles, the grouping totals $3,853,862. The 2012 window is about 28.1% of that running total — a larger share than IDX, KPCB Associates, or Xerox in this slice. A high share with two filers is still a concentration statistic, not a ranking of Sand Hill Road partnerships and not proof that a fund treasury wrote the checks. Other years under this key are not imported here.
Reading the Greylock Partners string
FEC employer fields are free text. Greylock Partners is the rollup as stored. Filers who wrote a longer legal name, a fund-vehicle name, or Greylock without Partners may land on other keys. This join does not merge those spellings. Combining them with KPCB Associates would invent a venture total neither packet publishes.
Two donors made eight contributions. That is a thin filing pattern compared with KPCB Associates’ 27 lines from two donors in the same cycle — a comparison of two separate cells, not a league table. The overlay for Greylock Partners 2012 is the row view.
Treat $3,853,862 as the denominator for the 28.1% share, not as assets under management. The smaller all-cycle total is why 2012’s share looks large; the share is arithmetic, not a claim that 2012 was the partnership’s only political year in some broader sense outside this table.
Eight lines without a partner roster
Dividing $1,081,850 by two donors yields $540,925 per donor. Those means will move if either identity is reclassified. They are not a typical check size for venture employees outside this cell, and they are not a median.
Eight contributions should not be mistaken for eight partners. Recipients are not listed in this prose. Use the overlay table for rows. Repeat itemization by recipient and report can still split a small number of gifts into eight lines.
2012 as a filter, not a VC scoreboard
The 2012 election cycle hub holds every stored employer for that window. Greylock Partners is one key inside it. No cycle-wide total appears in this packet, so this page does not state a national share. Presidential-year volume belongs on the cycle hub.
Open the 2012 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Greylock Partners to drop the year. All FEC ties lists other joins, including KPCB Associates 2012, which keeps its own 27-contribution facts.
What a two-donor, 28% cell does not prove
Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and committee activity sit outside $1,081,850. Federal award files are a different dataset. Sharing a famous partnership name and a calendar year is not a funding trail from FEC gifts to contracts.
Correlation between a venture-style employer string and a presidential-year cycle is not causation. The records show two matched identities, eight contributions, and a date window. Portfolio-company outcomes are not in the table.
Keeping 28.1% inside this intersection
Start with $1,081,850, then Greylock Partners 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. That path keeps two filters and one cell.
Two donors, eight contributions, and a 28.1% share versus $3,853,862 belong to 2012. Carry them onto another partnership spelling and they stop being facts from this packet. About $135,231 per line and $540,925 per donor are arithmetic for Greylock Partners in 2012. KPCB Associates in the same cycle has 27 lines from two donors and must keep those facts on its own slug. Fund names that omit Partners would miss this rollup.
Questions
- How much FEC money is tied to Greylock Partners in 2012?
- LobbyVault’s FEC.gov aggregates show $1,081,850 in itemized individual contributions for the Greylock Partners grouping in the 2012 cycle, from 8 contributions and 2 donors. The sum is not a fund PAC total.
- Why is 2012 such a large share of the Greylock total?
- The grouping’s all-cycle total is $3,853,862. $1,081,850 divided by that figure is about 28.1%. The share is large in part because the stored grouping total is smaller than many employer keys. Other cycles are not listed here.
- Is this the same as KPCB Associates in 2012?
- No. Greylock Partners and KPCB Associates are different employer keys with different donor and contribution counts. Combining them would invent a venture total neither packet publishes as a join.
- Where is the overlay for this join?
- Open Greylock Partners 2012 for the cycle overlay, Greylock Partners for the grouping hub, and the 2012 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.
FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle.