How much FEC money is tagged Microsoft in 2012?

The join records $2,193,205 in itemized individual contributions for Microsoft in 2012, from 2,111 contributions and 576 donors. The grouping’s all-cycle total is $30,011,546.

Is this Microsoft PAC spending?

No. The $2,193,205 cell is individual receipts whose employer field grouped to Microsoft. PAC disbursements are a different FEC schedule.

What share of the grouping is 2012?

7.3%: $2,193,205 of $30,011,546. Other cycles hold the rest. Use the industry hub for the all-years roll.

Are the 576 donors all current employees?

Unknown. Employer is self-reported. The 576 keys are unique donors inside this grouping for 2012, totaling $2,193,205 on 2,111 lines.

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Microsoft political money in the 2012 election cycle

The Microsoft employer grouping records $2,193,205 in itemized individual contributions for the 2012 FEC cycle. Two thousand one hundred eleven contribution lines from 576 donors make up that presidential-year cell. The grouping’s all-cycle total is $30,011,546, so 2012 is 7.3% of the key. This is a named-tech employer string, not a software-sector census and not Microsoft PAC spending.

Key figures

$2,193,205 tagged Microsoft in the 2012 FEC cycle.
2,111 contributions from 576 donors; about $1,039 per contribution.
2012 is 7.3% of the grouping’s $30,011,546 all-cycle total.
Named employer key, not a software-sector or PAC total.
Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates.

Hundreds of donors on a household-name key

Five hundred seventy-six donor keys and 2,111 lines average about 3.7 receipts per donor. Average line size is about $1,039. Average per donor is about $3,808. That shape resembles occupation keys more than one-donor fund keys: many people, modest itemized gifts, several committees each in a presidential cycle.

Employer is still a self-report. Current staff, alumni, spouses, and people with stale fields can appear if the string grouped to Microsoft. 576 is not a headcount of Redmond or of any campus.

Household-name tech employers still resolve to self-reported strings. Microsoft × 2012 = $2,193,205 on 2,111 lines from 576 donors, 7.3% of $30,011,546. Five hundred seventy-six keys and about $1,039 per line is an employee-style presidential pattern, closer to occupation keys than to one-donor tech strings such as Nimble Technology. Those other keys stay on their own URLs. This join is Microsoft × 2012 only. PAC disbursements are not in the $2,193,205.

7.3% of the Microsoft roll

Thirty million eleven thousand five hundred forty-six dollars is the grouping across all cycles. $2,193,205 is 7.3% of that. 2012 is a visible slice, not the lifetime figure. Other years hold the remaining 92.7%. This packet does not list those amounts.

Nimble Technology and other smaller tech strings are other keys. Do not add their 2012 cells to $2,193,205. Named-employer identity is the point of the industry dimension.

Company PAC versus employee receipts

Microsoft PAC disbursements are committee reports. This cell is individual Schedule A lines. Independent expenditures are another schedule. Mixing them into $2,193,205 would break the join.

The overlay lists 2012 recipients for this intersection. The 2012 cycle hub places Microsoft beside banks, occupation labels, and one-donor keys. Comparison is of cells, not of product markets.

Exclusions

Federal IT contracts in USAspending are a different dataset. A vendor named Microsoft in awards files is not funded by these itemized gifts. Shared company names across systems are not a donation-to-award path.

Unitemized gifts are absent. State contributions are absent. 2,111 is a federal itemized line count for this string in 2012.

The Microsoft 2012 overlay is the data join. The Microsoft industry hub holds $30,011,546. The 2012 election-cycle hub holds every employer string that year. The ties index holds other industry–cycle pages. Quote $2,193,205 with 576 donors and the 7.3% share.

Citing Microsoft × 2012

Write Microsoft, 2012, $2,193,205, 2,111 contributions, 576 donors, 7.3% of $30,011,546, source FEC.gov individual aggregates. Do not treat 576 keys as campus headcount. Do not add other tech-employer cells. Do not add independent expenditures. The overlay lists recipient committees for the 2,111 lines.

The Microsoft industry hub holds $30,011,546. The 2012 cycle hub places this bank of employee-style receipts beside occupation labels and concentrated named keys. The ties index holds other joins. Federal IT contracts in USAspending are a different dataset. A vendor named Microsoft in awards files is not funded by these itemized gifts. Shared company names are not a donation-to-award path.

Alumni, spouses, and stale employer fields can appear among the 576. That is a property of Schedule A, not a payroll audit. Quote the 7.3% share so $2,193,205 is not mistaken for the $30,011,546 lifetime Microsoft-string total.

Five hundred seventy-six donors and 2,111 lines totaling $2,193,205 is 7.3% of $30,011,546. That is the Microsoft × 2012 join. It is not campus headcount, not PAC spending, and not USAspending contracts. Nimble Technology and other tech strings stay on their own pages. Quote the 576-donor breadth with the 7.3% share so neither the year nor the lifetime roll is misread.

Questions

How much FEC money is tagged Microsoft in 2012?: The join records $2,193,205 in itemized individual contributions for Microsoft in 2012, from 2,111 contributions and 576 donors. The grouping’s all-cycle total is $30,011,546.
Is this Microsoft PAC spending?: No. The $2,193,205 cell is individual receipts whose employer field grouped to Microsoft. PAC disbursements are a different FEC schedule.
What share of the grouping is 2012?: 7.3%: $2,193,205 of $30,011,546. Other cycles hold the rest. Use the industry hub for the all-years roll.
Are the 576 donors all current employees?: Unknown. Employer is self-reported. The 576 keys are unique donors inside this grouping for 2012, totaling $2,193,205 on 2,111 lines.

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