Novell and the 2014 FEC election cycle

Novell is one axis; 2014 is the other

An industry-cycle page is not a restatement of Novell and not a restatement of 2014. It is the cell where they meet: $274,643, 33 contributions, 2 donors. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle are the source note.

On the employer side, Novell is software-employer form text still stored after later acquisitions. On the cycle side, 2014 is a two-year FEC window, not a single Election Day. Gifts dated in either year of that window sit in $274,643.

Leaving either axis off the citation misstates the record. $8,685,857 is the lifetime Novell bucket. The 2014 hub is every grouping that year. The join is $274,643.

2014 is not the whole Novell story

Novell across all cycles is $8,685,857. Novell in 2014 is $274,643 — about 3.2%. The gap is $8,411,214. Closing that gap would require other cycle joins, which this packet does not list.

A reader who only opens the 2014 overlay still sees $274,643 for this string, not $8,685,857. A reader who only opens the industry hub still needs the year filter to recover $274,643. 2014 holds $274,643 of $8,685,857 for this string — about 3.2%. Other cycles hold $8,411,214 (96.8%). Folding those other cycles into a 2014 citation would misstate the record by $8,411,214.

What 2 unique donors are not

2 unique donors are not a census of Novell. They are the identities attached to 33 itemized rows that summed to $274,643. Mean gift $8,323; mean per donor $137,322; about 16.5 rows each. The donor count is 2, so a small set of identities accounts for the 33 lines; this file still does not name them.

Household reuse of a workplace string is common on FEC forms. That inflates neither $8,685,857 nor $274,643 with “extra companies”; it can inflate donor counts relative to a strict employee roster that this table does not have. 33 itemized contributions from 2 donors produced the cell. Unique donors are contributor keys, not employees counted by HR. This file does not invent names for those 2 identities.

How FEC cycle 2014 works on this join

Cycle 2014 is the second key in the join. Combined with NOVELL, it produces $274,643. Combined with nothing, it is the year hub. Combined with a different string, it is a different tie.

Itemized receipts in either year of the window are in scope. Unitemized receipts are not. Independent expenditures are not. Those exclusions apply regardless of Novell. The 2014 hub without Novell is a different page. The Novell hub without 2014 is a different page. Only the overlap is $274,643.

Outside $274,643: PACs, unitemized, awards

Outside $274,643: unitemized individual gifts, independent expenditures, PAC spending, and any federal award table. Inside $274,643: itemized individual receipts matching NOVELL in cycle 2014.

The page is software-employer form text still stored after later acquisitions, not a Novell PAC, a software NAICS rollup, or the firm as a corporate treasury. Naming those exclusions keeps the join from being read as a company political budget. Self-reported employer text splits across spellings. NOVELL is the key used here. Related titles and legal names are other keys and are not added into $274,643 or $8,685,857.

Snapshot versus live overlay

JSON copy is written once from a packet. Hubs can refresh. If Novell 2014 on the site shows a different total than $274,643, use the live overlay and FEC.gov. The canonical path for this explanation is the ties URL in the packet.

The body facts remain: NOVELL × 2014 = $274,643, 33 contributions, 2 donors, 3.2% of $8,685,857. No other dollars are authorized. Use All FEC ties to find other two-dimension pages. Use Novell 2014 for rows. This prose stays inside packet facts: $274,643, 33, 2, 3.2% of $8,685,857. Restating the join without new numbers: Novell in 2014 is $274,643 from 33 itemized individual contributions and 2 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $8,685,857 across cycles, so 2014 is about 3.2% and other windows hold $8,411,214 (96.8%). The grouping is software-employer form text still stored after later acquisitions, not a Novell PAC, a software NAICS rollup, or the firm as a corporate treasury. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $8,323; mean per donor about $137,322; about 16.5 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2014 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $274,643.

Questions

How much did Novell donors give in 2014?

$274,643 is the itemized-individual total for NOVELL in 2014. Volume: 33 contributions, 2 donors. Source FEC.gov. PAC spending and unitemized gifts are outside the cell. FEC.gov is the source for $274,643, 33 contributions, and 2 donors in the Novell × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $8,685,857.

What share of Novell FEC money is 2014?

2014 holds $274,643 of the $8,685,857 stored for Novell, roughly 3.2%. The leftover $8,411,214 is other windows on the Novell hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $274,643, 33 contributions, and 2 donors in the Novell × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $8,685,857.

Does this page name the two 2014 donors?

Donor names are not in the packet. The aggregate is 2 unique donors, 33 itemized contributions, $274,643 in 2014 for NOVELL. Use the overlay, not this prose, for row-level identity. FEC.gov is the source for $274,643, 33 contributions, and 2 donors in the Novell × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $8,685,857.

Where is the overlay for the Novell 2014 join?

Use the four packet hrefs: Novell 2014, Novell, 2014 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Live overlay rows sit on the first of those. This file explains $274,643 as the join. FEC.gov is the source for $274,643, 33 contributions, and 2 donors in the Novell × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $8,685,857.