NEA and the 2014 FEC cycle

Joining the NEA string to 2014

NEA is three letters on an employer line. Filers use it for more than one real-world organization, and the aggregate does not split those homonyms. This page still has a precise job: show the dollars, gift count, and donor count where that string (and its grouped variants) meets the 2014 federal cycle. The meeting point is $1,996,698.

Twenty-two contributions from ten donors is a small-N cell. Average gift size is about $90,759; average per donor is about $199,670. Those ratios flag large itemized receipts, not a mass of small checks. They also flag how little the acronym tells you about who actually gave.

The 2014 cycle is a midterm window (2013–2014). The NEA industry hub is every cycle stacked. This tie is only the overlap.

A large lifetime total, a modest 2014 share

$42,454,178 is the grouping’s all-cycle individual total. $1,996,698 in 2014 is about 4.7% of that stack. Most of the NEA bucket therefore lives in other two-year windows. A researcher who treats 2014 as “the NEA year” would be reading a cell as if it were a hub.

Lifetime size can come from many cycles with many donors, or from a few cycles with very large gifts. This page only certifies the 2014 arithmetic. The industry hub is the place to see whether other years dwarf this one.

What ten donors and 22 gifts imply

A 22-to-10 ratio means some donors appear more than once in the window. It does not mean a membership organization passed the hat. Individual contribution files remain personal receipts tagged with an employer string. PAC filings, if any exist for a similarly named committee, are a different FEC form family and are not this aggregate.

Because the label is an acronym, two donors in the same cell might have intended two different employers. The join cannot correct that. It can only report the bucket the pipeline used.

2014 midterms as the cycle side

Every industry string that appeared on itemized individual receipts in 2013–2014 has a 2014 cell. NEA’s $1,996,698 is one of those cells. Comparing it with other 2014 employer joins is a table comparison. It is not a ranking of unions, venture firms, or any other entity that might expand the letters NEA.

Midterm cycles usually show lower national individual totals than presidential cycles. That background fact is not a causal story for this acronym’s 4.7% share.

Acronym risk and what a 22-gift cell can support

NEA is three letters with several well-known expansions and a long tail of shorthand. The Commission does not pick among them. The $1,996,698 cell is still real money on real receipts. The identity behind the letters is not certified. Treat the overlay as a list of filings, not as a membership roster for any one organization that uses the acronym.

Ten donors and 22 gifts leave almost no room for a dues-checkoff story. A mass affiliation usually produces more unique-donor keys if the occupation field were capturing a membership. The counts support a handful of large itemized receipts. Average gift size near $90,759 follows from that small-N arithmetic, not from a typical member check.

A 4.7% midterm share of $42,454,178 implies other cycles hold the bulk of the bucket, including presidential years this packet does not list. Dividing the two published dollar figures is allowed. Inventing the missing years’ amounts is not. The industry hub is the only place those other cells appear.

Readers who land on this page from a search for a specific organization should pause on the acronym problem before treating $1,996,698 as that organization’s political footprint. The overlay will show employer strings as filed, which may mix several expansions of NEA. Ten donors cannot represent a mass membership even if one of those expansions is a large association. The 2014 cycle tag still covers two calendar years, so a gift in January 2013 and a gift in December 2014 share the same cell. That calendar fact is mechanical. It is not a story about a legislative session.

Because the contribution count is 22, this is one of the few industry-cycle joins where reading every overlay row is realistic. Doing that work is how a researcher sees whether the large average gift size is a few joint-fundraising receipts or a stack of similar checks. This JSON page will not substitute for that reading. It only publishes the join totals and the 4.7% share of the $42,454,178 lifetime grouping.

Caveats on acronym joins

Do not infer that “the NEA” as a single organization gave $1,996,698. Do not infer that those gifts funded federal programs. FEC individual aggregates and USAspending awards do not settle each other.

Line-level browsing belongs on the NEA 2014 overlay. Other years belong on the NEA industry hub. Other 2014 employers belong on the cycle hub. Other relationship pages live under ties.

Questions

How much did the NEA grouping give in the 2014 FEC cycle?

Itemized individual contributions grouped to NEA totaled $1,996,698 in the 2014 cycle, from 22 contributions and 10 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That is the industry-cycle join, not PAC receipts and not the $42,454,178 all-cycle grouping total.

Does NEA here mean the National Education Association?

Not necessarily. The bucket is the employer/industry string NEA as it appears on individual contribution records. Multiple organizations share those letters. The aggregate does not disambiguate them. Treat the label as a filing string, then use the overlay to inspect receipts.

Why is 2014 only about 4.7% of NEA’s FEC total?

Because $1,996,698 divided by the grouping lifetime of $42,454,178 is about 4.7%. Other cycles hold the rest. A midterm cell can be small relative to a large multi-cycle bucket even when the raw dollars still look large on their own.

Do these gifts pay for federal grants or contracts?

No. This page uses FEC individual contribution aggregates. Federal spending is a separate public dataset. The join does not claim that 2014 campaign receipts funded USAspending awards. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the industry hub holds other cycles; the cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.