Indian Tribe and the 2010 FEC election cycle

Indian Tribe crossed with 2010

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Indian Tribe and 2010 — sum to $456,450. 139 itemized contributions and 43 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. This page joins the employer grouping Indian Tribe to cycle 2010; it is not a restatement of either hub alone.

Neither the Indian Tribe hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. 43 unique donors and 139 lines in 2010 sit under the stored string INDIAN TRIBE. TRIBAL GOVERNMENT, NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE, TRIBAL COUNCIL, and CASINO stay on their own keys if filers used them. BIA, IHS, or other tribal USAspending rows are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

8.7% of the Indian Tribe roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $5,258,880 ($5.3 million). The 2010 slice of $456,450 is about 8.7% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 91.3%, or $4,802,430. Treating 2010 as the Indian Tribe FEC story would ignore that remainder. Quote $456,450 when the sentence is about 2010. Quote $5,258,880 when the sentence is about the grouping across cycles. Do not add those two dollar figures; the first is already inside the second.

Treat $5,258,880 as the denominator for the 8.7% 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 $5,258,880. 8.7% is $456,450 divided by $5,258,880. Rounding to $456,450 and $5.3 million does not create extra facts. Use exact integers in a table. Use the rounded forms only as headlines of those same integers.

139 contributions from 43 donors

Dividing $456,450 by 139 contributions yields about $3,284 per itemized gift. Dividing by 43 donors yields about $10,615 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.2. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Indian Tribe 2010 holds the rows.

43 unique donors are contributor identities, not a census of employees, members, or officeholders. People who list the institution as employer or occupation can include staff, affiliates, and others who reused the string. Unitemized gifts never appear in $456,450. State-office campaigns never enter this cell. A later amendment can restate a large transfer while most of the 139 small lines stay put. After quarterly filings, reread the live overlay. If that hub and this snapshot disagree, FEC.gov controls.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer or occupation for that window. Indian Tribe 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 grouping filter and Indian Tribe to drop the year. FEC cycle 2010 covers 2009–2010. A gift dated in the odd year and a gift dated in the even year can share the $456,450 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 139 contributions, the 43 unique donors, and the 8.7% share of $5,258,880. Comparing Indian Tribe in 2010 to another grouping requires that other grouping’s cycle hub. This packet has one grouping and one cycle.

Limits of the Indian Tribe × 2010 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $456,450. BIA, IHS, or other tribal USAspending rows are different datasets. Sharing an employer or occupation string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. Correlation between a stored string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 43 donors, and 139 contributions.

TRIBAL GOVERNMENT, NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE, TRIBAL COUNCIL, and CASINO are other keys if stored separately. LobbyVault does not merge neighboring spellings into INDIAN TRIBE. The key is filer-entered employer text — not a BIA tribal-nation census, not a gaming-compact ledger, and not a tribal PAC. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. A ranking of industries for 2010 is a different page — the 2010 election-cycle index — not a homemade sort of this file.

Citing Indian Tribe and 2010 together

Start with $456,450, then Indian Tribe 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Indian Tribe, 2010, $456,450, 139 contributions, 43 donors, 8.7% of $5,258,880, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 8.7% share, the 43 donors count, and the $3,284 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling string 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. Do not print a 2010 share of US politics from $456,450. The denominator for 8.7% is $5,258,880, the Indian Tribe grouping in this extract, not every itemized dollar on FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Indian Tribe donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $456,450 in itemized individual contributions for the Indian Tribe grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 139 contributions and 43 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $5,258,880 all-cycle figure. Cite FEC.gov for the Indian Tribe × 2010 join.

What share of Indian Tribe FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $5,258,880. The 2010 cell of $456,450 is about 8.7% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 91.3% ($4,802,430) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Indian Tribe hub holds other cycles.

Is this Indian Tribe’s PAC or an official account?

No. $456,450 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Indian Tribe. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup. The key is not a BIA tribal-nation census, not a gaming-compact ledger, and not a tribal PAC. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Where is the overlay for the Indian Tribe 2010 join?

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