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KPMG LLP and the 2012 FEC election cycle

Donors listing KPMG LLP reported $965,951 in itemized individual contributions during the 2012 federal election cycle, according to FEC.gov aggregates. Those dollars arrived in 1,514 contributions from 770 donors. This is the presidential-year twin of the 2014 KPMG LLP join, not a continuation of that year’s 671-donor count. The page joins KPMG LLP to 2012 so two high-volume accounting cells stay on separate ties pages rather than being added into one invented Big Four total. Seven hundred seventy donors in 2012 and 671 donors in 2014 are two KPMG LLP cells; this page does not add them or merge them with PwC’s 923-donor 2012 cell.

Key figures

  • KPMG LLP × 2012 is $965,951 in itemized individual contributions.
  • The cell includes 1,514 contributions from 770 donors.
  • 2012 is about 9.0% of the grouping’s $10,749,834 all-cycle total.
  • This cell does not inherit 2014’s 671-donor count.
  • Mean gift size is about $638; that is a mean, not a median.

KPMG LLP crossed with 2012

Rows that match both the LLP employer key and the 2012 cycle sum to $965,951. The total is not an official firm disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live elsewhere in the FEC file. The 2014 KPMG LLP cell has its own $1,088,113 and 671 donors; those facts do not travel backward onto this page.

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $10,749,834. The 2012 slice is about 9.0% of that running sum, close to 2014’s 10.1% share but not the same dollars and not the same donor count. Each cycle is its own intersection. Adding the two cycle totals here would invent a combined figure this packet does not publish as a join.

770 donors on the LLP string

Filers who wrote KPMG LLP land here. Filers who wrote KPMG without LLP may land on a neighboring key. This join does not merge them. 770 donors is larger than the 2014 KPMG donor count of 671; that comparison is a pair of separate cells, not a trend claim beyond the two published numbers, and not a ranking against PwC LLP’s 923 donors in 2012.

Self-reported employer text can include retirees and household members. The Commission does not certify employment. The overlay for KPMG LLP 2012 is the row view of 1,514 lines.

Treat $10,749,834 as the denominator for the 9.0% share. Neighboring accounting keys, including Pricewaterhousecoopers LLP 2012, keep their own denominators.

1,514 contributions at a low mean gift

Dividing $965,951 by 1,514 contributions yields about $638 per itemized gift. Dividing by 770 donors yields about $1,254 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.0. Those means again describe many modest itemized receipts, similar in shape to the 2014 KPMG cell ($826 mean gift) but not identical and not a median.

Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. 1,514 and 770 belong together. Do not import 2014’s $826 mean as if it were this cell’s only story; this cell has its own $638 arithmetic. PwC LLP 2012’s $661 mean is another key entirely. About 2.0 lines per donor among 770 identities at a $638 mean gift is KPMG’s 2012 shape, not the 2014 KPMG $826 mean and not PwC’s 923-donor 2012 cell.

2012 without a Big Four ranking

The 2012 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. KPMG LLP is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Presidential-year volume belongs on the cycle hub.

Open the 2012 election cycle to drop the employer filter and KPMG LLP to drop the year. All FEC ties lists other relationship pages, including the 2014 KPMG join, which keeps 671 donors on its own slug.

Limits of the 2012 KPMG join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $965,951. USAspending awards are a different dataset. Sharing an audit-firm name and a calendar year does not fund those awards with these gifts.

Correlation between a partnership employer string and a presidential-year cycle is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 770 donors, and 1,514 contributions. Audit-client outcomes are not in the table.

Keeping 2012’s 770 donors off the 2014 page

Start with $965,951, then KPMG LLP 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Keep 2014’s KPMG cell on its own ties page.

The 9.0% share, the 770-donor count, and the $638 mean gift belong to 2012. Blend them with 2014 or with PwC and the arithmetic stops being a fact from this packet. One thousand five hundred fourteen contributions at about $638 per gift and a 9.0 percent share of $10,749,834 describe KPMG LLP in 2012. Low mean gifts in several accounting joins are still separate arithmetic. Federal audit contracts are not funded by these itemized individual receipts.

Questions

How much did KPMG LLP donors give in 2012?
FEC.gov aggregates show $965,951 in itemized individual contributions for the KPMG LLP grouping in 2012, across 1,514 contributions and 770 donors. That sum is not a firm PAC total.
Is this the same cell as KPMG LLP in 2014?
No. 2012 is a separate intersection with 770 donors and $965,951. The 2014 KPMG join has 671 donors and $1,088,113. This page does not add the two cycles together.
What share of the KPMG LLP grouping is 2012?
The grouping’s all-cycle total is $10,749,834. The 2012 cell of $965,951 is about 9.0% of that figure.
Where is the overlay for this join?
Open KPMG LLP 2012 for the cycle overlay, KPMG LLP for the grouping hub, and the 2012 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle.