How much did Microsoft donors give in the 2014 FEC cycle?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,158,258 in itemized individual contributions for the Microsoft grouping in 2014, across 1,236 contributions and 272 donors. That sum is not a company PAC total.

Is this the same as Microsoft Corporation in 2012?

No. This page is the Microsoft employer key in 2014. Microsoft Corporation is a different grouping, and 2012 is a different cycle. Combining those cells would invent a total neither packet publishes as a join.

What share of Microsoft FEC money is 2014?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $30,011,546. The 2014 cell of $1,158,258 is about 3.9% of that figure. Other cycles make up the rest.

Where is the overlay for this join?

Open Microsoft 2014 for the cycle overlay, Microsoft for the grouping hub, and the 2014 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

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Microsoft employer filings and the 2014 FEC cycle

Donors who listed Microsoft reported $1,158,258 in itemized individual contributions during the 2014 federal election cycle, according to FEC.gov aggregates. Those dollars arrived in 1,236 contributions from 272 donors. The figure belongs to this shorter employer string, not to Microsoft Corporation’s 2012 cell and not to a company PAC. This page joins Microsoft to 2014 so the two tables can be read as an overlap rather than as a combined software-industry total. The $30,011,546 grouping total is why 2014’s $1,158,258 is only about 3.9 percent of stored history — a small slice of a large short-name bucket, not a quiet midterm in the national file. Leave the Corporation spelling and the 2012 cycle on their own ties pages when you quote $1,158,258.

Key figures

Microsoft × 2014 is $1,158,258 in itemized individual contributions.
The cell includes 1,236 contributions from 272 donors.
2014 is about 3.9% of the grouping’s $30,011,546 all-cycle total.
This key is not the Microsoft Corporation grouping.
The join does not mix FEC gifts with federal awards.

Microsoft × 2014 as a distinct key

The Microsoft grouping and the 2014 cycle meet in this cell. Every itemized individual contribution in that window whose employer field rolled up to Microsoft sums to $1,158,258. The total is not a treasury line and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers are not included.

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $30,011,546 — much larger than the Microsoft Corporation key’s all-cycle figure on a different page. The 2014 slice is about 3.9% of that $30,011,546 stack. A midterm cell that is a small fraction of a large short-name bucket usually means the label appears in many other windows. It does not mean 2014 was quiet; the cycle hub holds that wider view.

Short name versus legal name

Filers who wrote Microsoft land here. Filers who wrote Microsoft Corporation land on that other grouping. This join does not merge them. Mixing $1,158,258 with the 2012 Microsoft Corporation total would invent a combined figure neither packet publishes as a join.

272 donors and 1,236 contributions describe a relatively broad cell for a named-tech key. Self-reported employer text can include retirees, contractors, and household members. The Commission does not certify that every row is a current employee.

Treat $30,011,546 as the denominator for the 3.9% share. It is not a market cap and not proof of a corporate political program. Neighboring keys keep their own denominators.

1,236 contributions from 272 donors

Dividing $1,158,258 by 1,236 contributions yields about $937 per itemized gift. Dividing by 272 donors yields about $4,258 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 4.5. Those means describe repeated itemization at a lower per-gift average than the 2012 Microsoft Corporation cell, which is a different key and must not be used as a benchmark on this page.

Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. 1,236 and 272 belong together. The overlay for Microsoft 2014 is the row-level companion. Averages are not medians and not party splits. About 4.5 lines per donor among 272 identities at a $937 mean gift is the short-name 2014 shape, not the Corporation key’s 2012 $1,767 mean.

The 2014 cycle without a software ranking

2014 is a two-year FEC federal window. Its cycle hub includes every stored employer for that period. Microsoft’s $1,158,258 is one cell in that matrix. This page does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated.

Open the 2014 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Microsoft to drop the year. All FEC ties lists other relationship pages, including Microsoft Corporation cycle joins, which keep their own facts.

Limits of the short-name join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $1,158,258. USAspending awards are a different dataset. Sharing a technology name and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into federal contracts.

Correlation between a short employer string and a midterm cycle is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 272 donors, and 1,236 contributions. Product-policy outcomes are not in the table.

Keeping Microsoft off the Corporation page

Start with $1,158,258, then Microsoft 2014 for rows, then the Microsoft hub or the 2014 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Keep Microsoft Corporation on its own ties pages.

The 3.9% share versus $30,011,546, the 272-donor count, and the $937 mean gift are properties of this intersection. Carry them onto another spelling or another year and they stop being facts from this packet. Two hundred seventy-two donors and 1,236 contributions describe repeated itemization at about $937 per gift. Those means belong to the Microsoft key in 2014. Microsoft Corporation in 2012 used a different string and a different cycle; adding the two cells would invent a combined software total.

Questions

How much did Microsoft donors give in the 2014 FEC cycle?: FEC.gov aggregates show $1,158,258 in itemized individual contributions for the Microsoft grouping in 2014, across 1,236 contributions and 272 donors. That sum is not a company PAC total.
Is this the same as Microsoft Corporation in 2012?: No. This page is the Microsoft employer key in 2014. Microsoft Corporation is a different grouping, and 2012 is a different cycle. Combining those cells would invent a total neither packet publishes as a join.
What share of Microsoft FEC money is 2014?: The grouping’s all-cycle total is $30,011,546. The 2014 cell of $1,158,258 is about 3.9% of that figure. Other cycles make up the rest.
Where is the overlay for this join?: Open Microsoft 2014 for the cycle overlay, Microsoft for the grouping hub, and the 2014 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.