Microsoft political money — 2010 cycle

Microsoft as stored text, 2010 as cycle

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Microsoft and 2010 — sum to $988,574. 1,472 itemized contributions and 318 unique donors produced it. The total is not a corporate treasury gift and is not the company’s PAC. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Microsoft hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Microsoft is an employer string, not a verified headcount and not the company’s PAC. 318 donors and 1,472 lines in 2010 matched that employer text. MICROSOFT CORP, MSFT, and other software-employer spellings sit in other keys if filers typed them that way. This page is the stored string MICROSOFT.

LobbyVault keeps this two-key page so a reader can open Microsoft 2010 without treating the industry hub as a cycle total or the 2010 cycle hub as an employer total. The overlay at the Microsoft 2010 path holds the itemized rows for this cell. This prose publishes the packet snapshot: $988,574, 1,472 contributions, 318 donors, and 3.3% of $30,011,546.

3.3% of the Microsoft roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $30,011,546. The 2010 slice of $988,574 is about 3.3% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.7% ($29,022,972). Treating 2010 as the Microsoft FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $30,011,546 as the denominator for the 3.3% 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 $30,011,546.

A 3.3% cell can sit next to larger or smaller even-year windows on the same Microsoft hub. This packet does not publish those other cycle dollars, so they are not cited here. Open Microsoft to drop the year filter. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter.

1,472 contributions from 318 donors

Dividing $988,574 by 1,472 contributions yields about $672 per itemized gift. Dividing by 318 donors yields about $3,109 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 4.6. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

318 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 Microsoft 2010 holds the rows.

1,472 is a receipt count, not a unique-person census beyond the 318 donor figure already in the packet. A person who gave twice is two lines inside the 1,472. Unitemized gifts never appear in $988,574.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Microsoft 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 filter and Microsoft to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $988,574 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 1,472 contributions, the 318 unique donors, and the 3.3% share of $30,011,546.

2010 is a midterm federal cycle on FEC.gov. That calendar label does not explain $988,574. This packet does not carry party splits, committee names, or occupation mix beyond the stored string MICROSOFT. Cite the two packet dollars — $988,574 for the 2010 slice and $30,011,546 for the Microsoft book — and stop before assigning motive.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $988,574. 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 Microsoft PAC disbursements and not a software NAICS total.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 318 donors, and 1,472 contributions. MICROSOFT CORP, MSFT, and other software-employer spellings sit in other keys if filers typed them that way. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Do not read $988,574 as proof that Microsoft “drove” the 2010 cycle or that 2010 “drove” the Microsoft book. The join is two fields. If the live hubs disagree with $988,574 or 318 donors, the newer FEC extract controls. This snapshot is not a third disclosure system.

Citing Microsoft and 2010 together

Start with $988,574, then Microsoft 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Microsoft, 2010, $988,574, 1,472 contributions, 318 donors, 3.3% of $30,011,546, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string MICROSOFT.

The 3.3% share, the 318-donor count, and the $672 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 Microsoft-listed donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $988,574 in itemized individual contributions for the Microsoft grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 1,472 contributions and 318 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $30,011,546 all-cycle figure.

What share of Microsoft FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $30,011,546. The 2010 cell of $988,574 is about 3.3% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.7% ($29,022,972) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Microsoft hub holds other cycles; the 2010 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $988,574 the Microsoft PAC total for 2010?

No. $988,574 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to MICROSOFT in the 2010 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 1,472 contributions came from 318 donors.

Where is the overlay for the Microsoft 2010 join?

Open Microsoft 2010 for the cycle overlay, Microsoft for the grouping hub, and the 2010 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.