Harris Associates and the 2014 FEC election cycle

The Harris Associates × 2014 join

LobbyVault stores FEC employer/industry strings separately from election cycles. Crossing them for Harris Associates and 2014 yields $269,990. That is 31 itemized lines and 4 unique donors. The figure is not a committee’s reported disbursement. FEC.gov remains the underlying source.

Investment-firm employer text can collide with similar form text. This join uses the exact grouping HARRIS ASSOCIATES. Related employer words, abbreviations, and occupation titles are not added. The 4 donor identities are contributor keys, not a headcount of a workforce.

Dropping either filter changes the story. Drop the year and you see $7,252,531. Drop the string and you see the entire 2014 cycle. This page holds both filters at once.

Lifetime Harris Associates money versus 2014

A lifetime figure of $7,252,531 can swallow a single cycle if the join is skipped. 2014 is $269,990, about 3.7%. The leftover $6,982,541 belongs on other cycle pages for the same string, not in this cell.

$7,252,531 is still only this exact grouping. It is not every related company name and not a sector total. 3.7% describes 2014 inside Harris Associates, nothing else. $7,252,531 is the running sum for exact string HARRIS ASSOCIATES. 2014 contributes $269,990 (3.7%); the complement is $6,982,541 (96.3%). Changing one character in the employer field would move money to another grouping and change both the numerator and the denominator.

Means on $269,990

Packet arithmetic: $269,990 ÷ 31 ≈ $8,709 per contribution; $269,990 ÷ 4 ≈ $67,498 per donor; 31 ÷ 4 ≈ 7.8 contributions per donor. None of those figures is a median, a mode, or a party breakdown. The donor count is 4, so a small set of identities accounts for the 31 lines; this file still does not name them.

The Commission’s itemized-individual universe excludes unitemized gifts. Adding those would change the means. This join does not add them. 4 unique donors produced 31 itemized receipts. The implied 7.8 contributions per donor is a mean. This JSON file does not name those donors. The overlay is the row store.

What the 2014 election cycle hub still holds

Remove Harris Associates and the 2014 cycle still contains every other grouping. This file does not add those dollars. Keep both keys if the question is HARRIS ASSOCIATES in 2014: $269,990, 31 contributions, 4 donors.

Presidential-year and midterm-year cycles both use the same two-year tagging rule. This packet does not classify 2014 beyond the year number in the facts. The 2014 election cycle hub still contains every other employer string. This tie keeps Harris Associates on. Without a cycle-wide total in the facts, $269,990 cannot be turned into a percent of national 2014 itemized giving.

FEC gifts are not federal awards

Harris Associates entities can appear in federal contracting files. USAspending obligations are not these campaign gifts. This join does not claim that $269,990 funded federal work, or that federal work funded the gifts. Different datasets, same possible name collision.

Unitemized contributions never enter 31 or $269,990. Committee-to-committee transfers and independent expenditures live elsewhere. Cite FEC.gov for the itemized-individual join only. Unitemized individual gifts never enter $269,990. Independent expenditures and PAC disbursements are other FEC tables. USAspending is a different database. Sharing a company-like string does not merge those ledgers.

A citation template for this join

Suggested citation: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, employer/industry grouping HARRIS ASSOCIATES, election cycle 2014, $269,990, 31 contributions, 4 donors (3.7% of $7,252,531 stored for the string).

Do not append NAICS codes, USAspending dollars, or named donors. Those facts are not in the packet. If a later overlay revises $269,990, the overlay controls. Internal links are the navigation: Harris Associates 2014 for the overlay, Harris Associates for other years, 2014 election cycle for other strings, All FEC ties for other joins. The canonical explanation path is the ties URL in the packet. Restating the join without new numbers: Harris Associates in 2014 is $269,990 from 31 itemized individual contributions and 4 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $7,252,531 across cycles, so 2014 is about 3.7% and other windows hold $6,982,541 (96.3%). The grouping is investment-firm employer text, not a Harris Associates PAC, a fund NAICS rollup, or the firm as a corporate treasury. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $8,709; mean per donor about $67,498; about 7.8 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2014 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $269,990.

Questions

How much did Harris Associates donors give in 2014?

$269,990 is the itemized-individual total for HARRIS ASSOCIATES in 2014. Volume: 31 contributions, 4 donors. Source FEC.gov. PAC spending and unitemized gifts are outside the cell. FEC.gov is the source for $269,990, 31 contributions, and 4 donors in the Harris Associates × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,252,531.

What share of Harris Associates FEC money is 2014?

2014 holds $269,990 of the $7,252,531 stored for Harris Associates, roughly 3.7%. The leftover $6,982,541 is other windows on the Harris Associates hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $269,990, 31 contributions, and 4 donors in the Harris Associates × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,252,531.

Does this page name the four 2014 donors?

Donor names are not in the packet. The aggregate is 4 unique donors, 31 itemized contributions, $269,990 in 2014 for HARRIS ASSOCIATES. Use the overlay, not this prose, for row-level identity. FEC.gov is the source for $269,990, 31 contributions, and 4 donors in the Harris Associates × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,252,531.

Where is the overlay for the Harris Associates 2014 join?

Use the four packet hrefs: Harris Associates 2014, Harris Associates, 2014 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Live overlay rows sit on the first of those. This file explains $269,990 as the join. FEC.gov is the source for $269,990, 31 contributions, and 4 donors in the Harris Associates × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $7,252,531.