Microsoft Corporation and the 2010 FEC election cycle

Microsoft Corporation crossed with 2010

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Microsoft Corporation and 2010 — sum to $361,047. 504 itemized contributions and 85 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. This page joins the employer grouping Microsoft Corporation to cycle 2010; it is not a restatement of either hub alone.

Neither the Microsoft Corporation hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. 85 unique donors and 504 lines in 2010 sit under the stored string MICROSOFT CORPORATION. MICROSOFT, MICROSOFT CORP, MSFT, and MICROSOFT INC stay on their own keys if filers used them. DoD, GSA IT, or other software USAspending rows are a different file and are not funded by these itemized gifts. Campaign contributions are not federal awards.

4.0% of the Microsoft Corporation roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $8,998,472 ($9 million). The 2010 slice of $361,047 is about 4.0% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.0%, or $8,637,425. Treating 2010 as the Microsoft Corporation FEC story would ignore that remainder. Quote $361,047 when the sentence is about 2010. Quote $8,998,472 when the sentence is about the grouping across cycles. Do not add those two dollar figures; the first is already inside the second.

Treat $8,998,472 as the denominator for the 4.0% 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 $8,998,472. 4.0% is $361,047 divided by $8,998,472. Rounding to $361,047 and $9 million does not create extra facts. Use exact integers in a table. Use the rounded forms only as headlines of those same integers.

504 contributions from 85 donors

Dividing $361,047 by 504 contributions yields about $716 per itemized gift. Dividing by 85 donors yields about $4,248 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 5.9. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Microsoft Corporation 2010 holds the rows.

85 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. Unitemized gifts never appear in $361,047. State-office campaigns never enter this cell. A later amendment can restate a large transfer while most of the 504 small lines stay put. After quarterly filings, reread the live overlay. If that hub and this snapshot disagree, FEC.gov controls.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer or occupation 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 2010 election cycle to drop the employer grouping filter and Microsoft Corporation to drop the year. FEC cycle 2010 covers 2009–2010. A gift dated in the odd year and a gift dated in the even year can share the $361,047 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 504 contributions, the 85 unique donors, and the 4.0% share of $8,998,472. Comparing Microsoft Corporation in 2010 to another grouping requires that other grouping’s cycle hub. This packet has one grouping and one cycle.

Limits of the Microsoft Corporation × 2010 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $361,047. DoD, GSA IT, or other software USAspending rows are different datasets. Sharing an employer or occupation string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. Correlation between a stored string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 85 donors, and 504 contributions.

MICROSOFT, MICROSOFT CORP, MSFT, and MICROSOFT INC are other keys if stored separately. LobbyVault does not merge neighboring spellings into MICROSOFT CORPORATION. The key is not a Microsoft payroll, not a software NAICS total, and not a Microsoft PAC. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. A ranking of industries for 2010 is a different page — the 2010 election-cycle index — not a homemade sort of this file.

Citing Microsoft Corporation and 2010 together

Start with $361,047, then Microsoft Corporation 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Microsoft Corporation, 2010, $361,047, 504 contributions, 85 donors, 4.0% of $8,998,472, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 4.0% share, the 85 donors count, and the $716 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling string 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. Do not print a 2010 share of US politics from $361,047. The denominator for 4.0% is $8,998,472, the Microsoft Corporation grouping in this extract, not every itemized dollar on FEC.gov.

Questions

How much did Microsoft Corporation donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $361,047 in itemized individual contributions for the Microsoft Corporation grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 504 contributions and 85 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $8,998,472 all-cycle figure. Cite FEC.gov for the Microsoft Corporation × 2010 join.

What share of Microsoft Corporation FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $8,998,472. The 2010 cell of $361,047 is about 4.0% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.0% ($8,637,425) on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Microsoft Corporation hub holds other cycles.

Is this Microsoft Corporation’s PAC or an official account?

No. $361,047 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Microsoft Corporation. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup. The key is not a Microsoft payroll, not a software NAICS total, and not a Microsoft PAC. Filings remain on FEC.gov.

Where is the overlay for the Microsoft Corporation 2010 join?

Open Microsoft Corporation 2010 for the cycle overlay, Microsoft Corporation for the grouping hub, and the 2010 election cycle for the year without this filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.