Kaiser Permanente and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Kaiser Permanente crossed with 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Kaiser Permanente and 2008 — sum to $378,164. The cell holds 583 itemized contributions and 287 unique donors. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Kaiser Permanente hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Two hundred eighty-seven donors produced 583 Kaiser Permanente lines in 2008 — a broad health-system employer cell. Physicians, staff, and others who typed a regional medical-group suffix may sit next door. This join does not merge those suffixes. KAISER, KAISER FOUNDATION, KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL, and KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL GROUP are other keys if stored separately.

6.2% of the Kaiser Permanente roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $6,058,245 ($6.1 million). The 2008 slice of $378,164 is about 6.2% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 93.8%. Treating 2008 as the Kaiser Permanente FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $6,058,245 as the denominator for the 6.2% 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 2008 from being folded silently into $6,058,245.

583 contributions from 287 donors

Dividing $378,164 by 583 contributions yields about $649 per itemized gift. Dividing by 287 donors yields about $1,318 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.0. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

287 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. The overlay for Kaiser Permanente 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Kaiser Permanente is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Kaiser Permanente to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $378,164 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 583 contributions, the 287 unique donors, and the 6.2% share of $6,058,245.

Limits of the Kaiser Permanente × 2008 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $378,164. 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 not a health-care NAICS total and not a Kaiser PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 287 donors, and 583 contributions. KAISER, KAISER FOUNDATION, KAISER FOUNDATION HOSPITAL, and KAISER PERMANENTE MEDICAL GROUP are other keys if stored separately. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Kaiser Permanente and 2008 together

Start with $378,164, then Kaiser Permanente 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Kaiser Permanente, 2008, $378,164, 583 contributions, 287 donors, 6.2% of $6,058,245, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 6.2% share, the 287-donor count, and the $649 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word 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.

Questions

How much did Kaiser Permanente donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $378,164 in itemized individual contributions for the Kaiser Permanente grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 583 contributions and 287 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $6,058,245 all-cycle figure.

What share of Kaiser Permanente FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $6,058,245. The 2008 cell of $378,164 is about 6.2% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 93.8% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Kaiser Permanente hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is this Kaiser Permanente’s PAC or an official account?

No. $378,164 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Kaiser Permanente. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup unless an individual receipt itself carries the string. The key is not a health-care NAICS total and not a Kaiser PAC.

Where is the overlay for the Kaiser Permanente 2008 join?

Open Kaiser Permanente 2008 for the cycle overlay, Kaiser Permanente for the grouping hub, and the 2008 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.