How much did Microsoft Corporation donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $1,192,444 in itemized individual contributions for the Microsoft Corporation grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 675 contributions and 141 donors. That sum is not a company PAC total.

Is this the same as the Microsoft grouping?

No. This page is the Microsoft Corporation employer key only. A shorter Microsoft label is a different grouping with its own cycle cells. Combining them would invent a total the packet does not contain.

What share of Microsoft Corporation FEC money is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $8,998,472. The 2012 cell of $1,192,444 is about 13.3% of that figure. Other cycles are not listed here.

Where is the overlay for this join?

Open Microsoft Corporation 2012 for the cycle overlay, Microsoft Corporation for the grouping hub, and the 2012 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

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Microsoft Corporation and the 2012 FEC cycle

Donors who listed Microsoft Corporation reported $1,192,444 in itemized individual contributions during the 2012 federal election cycle, according to FEC.gov aggregates. Those dollars arrived in 675 contributions from 141 donors. The figure belongs to this legal-style employer string, not to a PAC and not to every neighboring Microsoft key. This page joins Microsoft Corporation to the 2012 two-year window so the two tables can be read as an overlap rather than as a software-industry ranking. Readers comparing this legal-name cell with a shorter Microsoft key should open both pages and leave the dollar figures uncombined.

Key figures

Microsoft Corporation × 2012 is $1,192,444 in itemized individual contributions.
The cell includes 675 contributions from 141 donors.
2012 is about 13.3% of the grouping’s $8,998,472 all-cycle total.
This key is not the shorter Microsoft grouping.
The join does not turn FEC gifts into federal awards.

Microsoft Corporation crossed with 2012

LobbyVault’s industry axis and cycle axis meet here. Every itemized individual contribution in 2012 whose employer field rolled up to Microsoft Corporation sums to $1,192,444. The total is not a company disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers sit in other FEC tables and are not folded into this cell.

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $8,998,472. The 2012 slice is about 13.3% of that running sum. A presidential-year cell that is roughly one-eighth of the key’s history is a real intersection, not a substitute for the unfiltered employer hub or for a shorter Microsoft label that lives on another page.

Why the legal name is a separate key

Filers type employer text. Some write Microsoft, some write Microsoft Corporation, some write a subsidiary. Those strings do not automatically collapse. This join reports only Microsoft Corporation. A Microsoft 2014 page, if you open it, is a different key and a different year; mixing the two would invent a combined total.

Self-reported employer fields can include retirees, contractors, and household members who reuse a workplace. The Commission does not certify employment. The 141 donors are contributor identities that matched this string in 2012, not a headcount of Redmond staff.

Treat $8,998,472 as the denominator for the 13.3% share. It is not a market capitalization and not proof of a multi-year corporate program. Neighboring Microsoft-related keys have their own denominators.

675 contributions from 141 donors

Dividing $1,192,444 by 675 contributions yields about $1,767 per itemized gift. Dividing by 141 donors yields about $8,457 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 4.8 — repeated itemization rather than one-check giving. Those ratios are means, not medians, and they do not identify a party split.

141 donors is broader than a four-person cell and narrower than a mass occupation bucket. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count, which is why 675 and 141 belong together. The overlay for Microsoft Corporation 2012 is the row-level companion. Those 4.8 contributions per donor are a 2012 Corporation-key pattern, not a Microsoft 2014 short-name pattern, and they do not identify how many of the 141 people were current employees.

The 2012 cycle without a software ranking

2012 is a two-year FEC federal window. Its cycle hub includes every stored employer for that period. Microsoft Corporation’s $1,192,444 is one cell in that matrix. This page does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. It also does not rank software employers against one another.

Open the 2012 election cycle hub to drop the employer filter, and the Microsoft Corporation hub to drop the year. All FEC ties lists other relationship pages that must not inherit these counts.

Limits of the corporation-string join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements are outside $1,192,444. A later federal contract in USAspending is a different dataset. Sharing a famous employer name and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into award funding.

Correlation between a technology employer string and a presidential-year cycle is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 141 donors, and 675 contributions. Motive and product-policy outcomes are not in the table.

Using the four links without mixing keys

Start with $1,192,444, then Microsoft Corporation 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Keep Microsoft Corporation and any shorter Microsoft key on separate pages.

The 13.3% share, the $8,457 per-donor mean, and the 141-donor count are properties of this intersection. Carry them into 2014 or onto another spelling and they stop being facts from this packet. One hundred forty-one donors, 675 contributions, and a 13.3 percent share versus $8,998,472 are the published shape of Microsoft Corporation in 2012. Subsidiary spellings, stock-ticker nicknames, and later-year cells are other joins. FEC itemized receipts remain separate from any USAspending award that happens to list a similar employer in the same calendar year.

Questions

How much did Microsoft Corporation donors give in 2012?: FEC.gov aggregates show $1,192,444 in itemized individual contributions for the Microsoft Corporation grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 675 contributions and 141 donors. That sum is not a company PAC total.
Is this the same as the Microsoft grouping?: No. This page is the Microsoft Corporation employer key only. A shorter Microsoft label is a different grouping with its own cycle cells. Combining them would invent a total the packet does not contain.
What share of Microsoft Corporation FEC money is 2012?: The grouping’s all-cycle total is $8,998,472. The 2012 cell of $1,192,444 is about 13.3% of that figure. Other cycles are not listed here.
Where is the overlay for this join?: Open Microsoft Corporation 2012 for the cycle overlay, Microsoft Corporation for the grouping hub, and the 2012 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.