Microsoft Corporation political money — 2008 cycle

Microsoft Corporation as stored employer text, 2008 as cycle

Employer and occupation groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Microsoft Corporation and 2008 — sum to $708,178. 655 itemized contributions and 149 unique donors produced it. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Microsoft Corporation hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. One hundred forty-nine donors and 655 lines in 2008 sit under Microsoft Corporation, including the Corporation suffix. The shorter MICROSOFT key is a different grouping with its own 2008 overlay. LobbyVault does not merge those neighbors. MICROSOFT, MICROSOFT CORP, MSFT, and GOOGLE or IBM as other technology-employer strings are other keys. This page is the two-word Microsoft Corporation string.

7.9% of the Microsoft Corporation roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $8,998,472 ($9.00 million). The 2008 slice of $708,178 is about 7.9% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.1% ($8,290,294). Treating 2008 as the Microsoft Corporation FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $8,998,472 as the denominator for the 7.9% 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 2008 from being folded silently into $8,998,472.

655 contributions from 149 donors

Dividing $708,178 by 655 contributions yields about $1,081 per itemized gift. Dividing by 149 donors yields about $4,753 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 4.4. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

149 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 Corporation 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Microsoft Corporation is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Microsoft Corporation to drop the year. 2008 is a presidential even-year window on FEC.gov; that calendar label does not explain $708,178.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $708,178 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 655 contributions, the 149 unique donors, and the 7.9% share of $8,998,472.

What the Commission does not verify

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $708,178. 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, 149 donors, and 655 contributions. Do not add the one-word Microsoft 2008 cell to this Corporation-suffix total. Combining them would invent a figure neither packet publishes as a join. Cite the exact stored string MICROSOFT CORPORATION crossed with 2008. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Microsoft Corporation and 2008 together

Start with $708,178, then Microsoft Corporation 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Microsoft Corporation, 2008, $708,178, 655 contributions, 149 donors, 7.9% of $8,998,472, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string MICROSOFT CORPORATION.

The 7.9% share, the 149-donor count, and the $1,081 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 Corporation donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $708,178 in itemized individual contributions for the Microsoft Corporation grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 655 contributions and 149 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $8,998,472 all-cycle figure.

What share of Microsoft Corporation FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $8,998,472. The 2008 cell of $708,178 is about 7.9% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.1% ($8,290,294) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Microsoft Corporation hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Is $708,178 the Microsoft Corporation PAC total for 2008?

No. $708,178 is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to Microsoft Corporation in the 2008 cycle. It is not committee disbursements, not independent expenditures, and not a verified employee census. 655 contributions came from 149 donors. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Microsoft Corporation hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the Microsoft Corporation 2008 join?

Open Microsoft Corporation 2008 for the cycle overlay, Microsoft Corporation for the grouping hub, and the 2008 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.