Koch Industries and the 2012 FEC election cycle

Reading $323,284 as an intersection

$323,284 is the amount that survives both filters. The employer filter is Koch Industries (KOCH INDUSTRIES). The cycle filter is 2012. FEC.gov itemized individual contributions supply the dollars, the 279 lines, and the 53 donors.

Because the grouping is conglomerate employer text, the cell is a text match. Household members, retirees, and former workers can reuse a workplace or title. The Commission does not audit those claims on this aggregate.

Use the industry hub when the question is every cycle for Koch Industries. Use the 2012 election cycle when the question is every string that year. Use this tie when the question is both.

The $3,916,660 denominator

Divide $323,284 by $3,916,660 and the result is about 8.3%. The complementary share is 91.7%, or $3,593,376 outside 2012. Those two pieces add to the grouping total on FEC.gov as stored here.

$3,916,660 is not earnings, assets, or federal contract value. It is summed itemized individual contributions that matched KOCH INDUSTRIES in any cycle in this table. The denominator $3,916,660 is every cycle stored for KOCH INDUSTRIES, not revenue and not assets. $323,284 over $3,916,660 is about 8.3%. The leftover $3,593,376 is other even-year windows on the Koch Industries hub.

$1,159 per contribution, $6,100 per donor

Per-gift mean $1,159 and per-donor mean $6,100 follow from $323,284, 279, and 53. About 5.3 itemized lines per donor is the third ratio. Report them as means, not as typical gifts.

Contributor identities can include people who listed KOCH INDUSTRIES as employer or occupation without a current job match. The FEC form is self-reported. Means: $1,159 per itemized contribution, $6,100 per unique donor, 5.3 contributions per donor. Report them as arithmetic on $323,284, 279, and 53. They are not medians.

Cycle tag versus calendar year

Calendar year 2012 and FEC cycle 2012 are easy to confuse. The stored tag is the cycle. Both years of the window can feed $323,284. This prose does not split them because the packet does not.

Koch Industries remains one grouping among many on the 2012 hub. This join does not list siblings. All FEC ties is the directory of other two-dimension pages. 2012 as a cycle tag includes the odd year paired with that even year. This packet does not split those years. $323,284 is the two-year cell.

Correlation is not a spending trail

A shared year and a shared employer word are not a causal chain. $323,284 is the itemized-individual overlap. It is not proof that Koch Industries as an organization directed the gifts, and it is not proof that the gifts bought federal contracts.

All FEC ties collects other joins. Live overlay numbers win if they disagree with this snapshot. FEC.gov remains the originating public record. PAC filings sit outside $323,284. So do independent expenditures and unitemized gifts. So do USAspending obligations. The page is conglomerate employer text, not Koch Industries PAC, a NAICS manufacturing rollup, or Koch as a corporate treasury.

Using the four internal links

Four hrefs cover the join: the 2012 overlay for this string, the Koch Industries industry hub, the 2012 election cycle hub, and the ties index. Together they let a reader add or remove one filter at a time without leaving FEC itemized-individual space.

This snapshot recorded $323,284 from 279 contributions and 53 donors. Live pages can move. FEC.gov is the originating filing system. Citation order that preserves the join: dollars first ($323,284), then both keys (Koch Industries, 2012), then volume (279 contributions, 53 donors), then source (FEC.gov). Restating the join without new numbers: Koch Industries in 2012 is $323,284 from 279 itemized individual contributions and 53 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $3,916,660 across cycles, so 2012 is about 8.3% and other windows hold $3,593,376 (91.7%). The grouping is conglomerate employer text, not Koch Industries PAC, a NAICS manufacturing rollup, or Koch 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 $1,159; mean per donor about $6,100; about 5.3 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2012 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $323,284.

Questions

How much did Koch Industries donors give in 2012?

The Koch Industries × 2012 cell is $323,284. FEC.gov counted 279 itemized individual contributions from 53 unique donors. That is the join, not the $3,916,660 lifetime grouping total and not a committee disbursement. FEC.gov is the source for $323,284, 279 contributions, and 53 donors in the Koch Industries × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $3,916,660.

What share of Koch Industries FEC money is 2012?

About 8.3%. $323,284 divided by $3,916,660 is the 2012 share for this exact string. $3,593,376 (91.7%) sits in other cycles. No national 2012 denominator is in the packet. FEC.gov is the source for $323,284, 279 contributions, and 53 donors in the Koch Industries × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $3,916,660.

Does this include only Koch Industries employees?

No. 53 unique donors matched KOCH INDUSTRIES in 2012. Retirees, household members, and former workers can reuse the string. Neighboring spellings are other keys. The total remains $323,284. FEC.gov is the source for $323,284, 279 contributions, and 53 donors in the Koch Industries × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $3,916,660.

Where is the overlay for the Koch Industries 2012 join?

The overlay path is the Koch Industries 2012 link. The industry hub drops the year. The 2012 election cycle drops the string. All FEC ties is the directory of joins. Dollars: $323,284. FEC.gov is the source for $323,284, 279 contributions, and 53 donors in the Koch Industries × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $3,916,660.