Lockheed Martin contributions received by LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION EMPLOYEES' POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

A connected-PAC join, not a company donation

LOCKHEED MARTIN is the employer string. C00303024 is the employees’ political action committee of Lockheed Martin Corporation. This page reports where those two FEC dimensions overlap: individual gifts whose employer field grouped to LOCKHEED MARTIN and whose recipient is that PAC. The $9,752,781 figure is the intersection.

Connected PACs typically receive voluntary itemized gifts from people associated with the sponsoring firm. FEC individual records still do not prove that every LOCKHEED MARTIN-coded donor was on payroll, that the company reimbursed the gift, or that the PAC spent the money on any particular race. The join is a field match. Independent expenditures by the PAC, if any, are other filings.

Name similarity between employer and committee is expected for an employees’ PAC. Similarity is not a second dataset. It is why researchers need an explicit join instead of assuming the industry hub and the PAC hub are the same list.

LOCKHEED MARTIN dollars outside this PAC

The employer grouping shows $15,736,045 in itemized individual money. The employees’ PAC cell is $9,752,781, or about 62% of that total. Roughly 38% of LOCKHEED MARTIN-coded individual receipts went to other committees — candidate accounts, party committees, or other PACs. Those dollars remain on the industry hub and are not in these 91,486 rows.

Treat the 62% share as a concentration statistic, not as evidence that the firm ran a single political program. Filers who listed LOCKHEED MARTIN, LOCKHEED MARTIN CORP, or a business-unit name may land in adjacent keys if stored separately. This page stays on the LOCKHEED MARTIN bucket as indexed.

91,486 contributions and a low mean gift

LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION EMPLOYEES' POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE received $9,752,781 from this employer string across 91,486 contributions. Dividing dollars by gifts gives about $107 per contribution. High line counts and modest means are common when payroll-style PAC deductions are itemized over many cycles.

Ninety-one thousand lines are not 91,000 unique people. Repeat givers raise the contribution count. The packet does not publish a unique-donor figure for this cell. The committee overlay for C00303024 also includes receipts whose employer field did not group to LOCKHEED MARTIN.

Defense employer strings and federal awards

Lockheed Martin appears in federal contracting data as a recipient of USAspending obligations. Those award dollars are not these campaign gifts. This join does not claim that PAC contributions funded contracts, or that contracts funded PAC contributions. FEC and USAspending are separate ledgers that happen to share a company name.

The employer field can lag a merger, a retirement, or a contractor badge. Correlation between a defense employer string and an employees’ PAC is a reporting pattern, not causation of procurement outcomes.

How to open each side of the pair

The Lockheed Martin industry page keeps the $15,736,045 employer total and the other committees that received the remaining share. The employees’ PAC page keeps C00303024 as a committee record. All industries and all FEC ties place this connected-PAC cell next to other employer-committee joins without folding in independent expenditures.

The 91,486-line count is the operational signature of a connected employees' PAC, not a census of Lockheed Martin staff. People who left the firm but still typed LOCKHEED MARTIN remain in the grouping if that is how the receipt was stored. People on payroll who typed a business-unit name are out if stored separately. Neither group is counted as employees here.

Using the 62% figure without turning it into a program

Sixty-two percent of $15,736,045 is $9,752,781 into C00303024. The other 38% is LOCKHEED MARTIN-coded individual money that did not go to the employees' PAC. Quoting only the PAC cell understates the employer string. Quoting only the industry hub hides how much of that string is this one committee. The join exists to keep those two sentences in the same paragraph.

About $107 per contribution is $9,752,781 divided by 91,486. That arithmetic is useful as a scale check against seven-figure means on thin super PAC joins. It is not evidence of a payroll-deduction program, even though the line count is consistent with one. FEC individual aggregates do not flag deduction versus one-off checks. Independent expenditures and USAspending obligations remain outside the $9,752,781.

Questions

How much did Lockheed Martin-coded donors give the employees’ PAC?

FEC.gov aggregates show $9,752,781 in itemized individual contributions grouped to LOCKHEED MARTIN and received by LOCKHEED MARTIN CORPORATION EMPLOYEES' POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (C00303024). That join covers 91,486 contributions. The employer grouping across all committees is $15,736,045. These figures are not independent expenditures.

What share of Lockheed Martin FEC individual money went to this PAC?

About 62% of the $15,736,045 LOCKHEED MARTIN employer total is in this join: $9,752,781 to C00303024. The leftover share went to other committees. A majority share describes overlap, not a finding that the company directed every gift.

Is the employees’ PAC the same as Lockheed Martin corporate spending?

No. This page is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to LOCKHEED MARTIN and whose recipient is C00303024. Corporate treasury activity and independent expenditures are other FEC categories. The join does not merge those documents into the $9,752,781.

Do these PAC gifts fund Lockheed Martin federal contracts?

No. FEC individual contributions and USAspending obligations are different datasets. Sharing an employer name does not create a funding pipeline. This tie page reports only the employer-committee intersection on itemized individual receipts.