Intel and the 2010 FEC election cycle
Donors listing Intel reported $465,505 in itemized individual contributions during the 2010 federal election cycle, according to FEC.gov aggregates. Those dollars arrived in 337 contributions from 57 donors. The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $5,632,299; the 2010 slice is about 8.3% of that running sum. The key is not an Intel headcount, not a semiconductor NAICS total, and not an Intel PAC.
Key figures
- Intel × 2010 is $465,505 in itemized individual contributions.
- The cell includes 337 contributions from 57 donors.
- 2010 is about 8.3% of the grouping’s $5,632,299 all-cycle total.
- The label is self-reported form text, not an Intel headcount, not a semiconductor NAICS total, and not an Intel PAC.
- FEC gifts and federal award files remain separate datasets.
Intel crossed with 2010
Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Intel and 2010 — sum to $465,505. 337 itemized contributions and 57 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 Intel to cycle 2010; it is not a restatement of either hub alone.
Neither the Intel hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. 57 unique donors and 337 lines in 2010 sit under the stored string INTEL. INTEL CORP, INTEL CORPORATION, INTEL INC, and INTEL CAPITAL stay on their own keys if filers used them. DoD, NSF, or other semiconductor-research USAspending rows are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.
8.3% of the Intel roll
The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $5,632,299 ($5.6 million). The 2010 slice of $465,505 is about 8.3% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 91.7%, or $5,166,794. Treating 2010 as the Intel FEC story would ignore that remainder. Quote $465,505 when the sentence is about 2010. Quote $5,632,299 when the sentence is about the grouping across cycles. Do not add those two dollar figures; the first is already inside the second.
Treat $5,632,299 as the denominator for the 8.3% 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 $5,632,299. 8.3% is $465,505 divided by $5,632,299. Rounding to $465,505 and $5.6 million does not create extra facts. Use exact integers in a table. Use the rounded forms only as headlines of those same integers.
337 contributions from 57 donors
Dividing $465,505 by 337 contributions yields about $1,381 per itemized gift. Dividing by 57 donors yields about $8,167 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 5.9. 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 Intel 2010 holds the rows.
57 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. Unitemized gifts never appear in $465,505. State-office campaigns never enter this cell. A later amendment can restate a large transfer while most of the 337 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. Intel 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 Intel 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 $465,505 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 337 contributions, the 57 unique donors, and the 8.3% share of $5,632,299. Comparing Intel in 2010 to another grouping requires that other grouping’s cycle hub. This packet has one grouping and one cycle.
Limits of the Intel × 2010 join
Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $465,505. DoD, NSF, or other semiconductor-research 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, 57 donors, and 337 contributions.
INTEL CORP, INTEL CORPORATION, INTEL INC, and INTEL CAPITAL are other keys if stored separately. LobbyVault does not merge neighboring spellings into INTEL. The key is not an Intel headcount, not a semiconductor NAICS total, and not an Intel 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 Intel and 2010 together
Start with $465,505, then Intel 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Intel, 2010, $465,505, 337 contributions, 57 donors, 8.3% of $5,632,299, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.
The 8.3% share, the 57 donors count, and the $1,381 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 $465,505. The denominator for 8.3% is $5,632,299, the Intel grouping in this extract, not every itemized dollar on FEC.gov.
Questions
- How much did Intel donors give in 2010?
- FEC.gov aggregates show $465,505 in itemized individual contributions for the Intel grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 337 contributions and 57 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $5,632,299 all-cycle figure. Cite FEC.gov for the Intel × 2010 join.
- What share of Intel FEC money is 2010?
- The grouping’s all-cycle total is $5,632,299. The 2010 cell of $465,505 is about 8.3% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 91.7% ($5,166,794) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Intel hub holds other cycles.
- Is this Intel’s PAC or an official account?
- No. $465,505 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Intel. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup. The key is not an Intel headcount, not a semiconductor NAICS total, and not an Intel PAC. Filings remain on FEC.gov.
- Where is the overlay for the Intel 2010 join?
- Open Intel 2010 for the cycle overlay, Intel 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.
FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle.