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Oppenheimer Co and the 2012 FEC election cycle

The Oppenheimer Co employer grouping recorded $1,070,950 in itemized individual contributions in the 2012 FEC cycle, according to FEC.gov aggregates. Those dollars arrived in 38 contributions from one donor. Oppenheimer Co is the matched employer string as stored, not a claim about every Oppenheimer legal variant. This page joins that brokerage-style key to the 2012 two-year window so a one-person cell can be read as an overlap rather than as a firm PAC or a ranking of broker-dealers. One identity and 38 lines produced $1,070,950; ampersand spellings and longer legal names are other keys if filers typed them that way. Do not treat thirty-eight itemized lines as thirty-eight Oppenheimer brokers. Ampersand spellings of the same brokerage name are other keys if filers typed them.

Key figures

  • Oppenheimer Co × 2012 equals $1,070,950 in itemized individual contributions.
  • One donor made 38 contributions in that cell.
  • 2012 is about 19.0% of the grouping’s $5,628,492 all-cycle total.
  • The key is a self-reported employer string, not a treasury line.
  • The page is a two-table join, not a motive claim.

One donor where Oppenheimer Co meets 2012

A single contributor identity accounts for the entire $1,070,950. Thirty-eight itemized contributions still sit in the count, so the money arrived as many lines rather than one check. The join includes only rows whose employer text rolled up to Oppenheimer Co and whose dates fall in 2012. Drop either filter and the dollar figure no longer applies.

Across cycles, the grouping totals $5,628,492. The 2012 window is about 19.0% of that running total. A high cycle share with one filer is a concentration statistic, not a ranking of broker-dealers and not proof that a company treasury wrote the checks. Other years under this key are not imported here.

What the Oppenheimer Co label holds

FEC employer fields are free text. Oppenheimer Co is the rollup as stored. Filers who wrote Oppenheimer & Co., a longer legal name, or a wealth-management affiliate may land on other keys. This join does not merge those spellings. Combining them with Bank of America or Merrill Lynch would invent a finance total neither packet publishes.

Because one donor dominates 2012, the page is closer to a person-level timeline than to a branch-office census. The industry hub’s $5,628,492 is the place to see the key without the 2012 filter. The overlay for Oppenheimer Co 2012 is the row view of the 38 lines.

Treat $5,628,492 as the denominator for the 19.0% share, not as a market valuation. A later cycle under this key would have its own donor count and must not inherit the one-donor fact from 2012.

38 lines from one identity

Dividing $1,070,950 by 38 contributions yields about $28,183 per itemized gift. Dividing by one donor yields $1,070,950 per donor. Contributions per donor are 38. Repeat itemization by recipient and report can produce dozens of lines without adding people. Those figures are arithmetic, not a median.

Thirty-eight contributions should not be mistaken for 38 brokers. Recipients are not listed in this prose. Use the overlay table if you need rows. Mean gift size will move if any line is reclassified. Thirty-eight lines at about $28,183 each from one brokerage-string identity should be cited with the one-donor caveat whenever the $1,070,950 headline is repeated.

2012 as a filter, not a brokerage scoreboard

The 2012 election cycle hub holds every stored employer for that window. Oppenheimer Co is one key inside it. No cycle-wide total appears in this packet, so this page does not state a national share. Presidential-year volume belongs on the cycle hub.

Open the 2012 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Oppenheimer Co to drop the year. All FEC ties lists other joins. None of those pages inherit this cell’s one-donor count.

What a one-donor brokerage key does not prove

Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and committee activity sit outside $1,070,950. Federal award files are a different dataset. Sharing a brokerage name and a calendar year is not a funding trail from FEC gifts to contracts.

Correlation between an employer string and a presidential-year cycle is not causation. The records show one matched identity, 38 contributions, and a date window. Motive is not in the table.

Keeping one donor inside 2012

Start with $1,070,950, then Oppenheimer Co 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. That path keeps two filters and one cell.

One donor, 38 contributions, and a 19.0% share versus $5,628,492 belong to 2012. Carry any of them into another cycle and the arithmetic stops being a fact from this packet. The 19.0 percent share of $5,628,492 belongs to Oppenheimer Co in 2012. Bank of America and Merrill Lynch remain separate finance strings. Thirty-eight contributions are not thirty-eight brokers. Recipients stay on the overlay, not in this prose.

Questions

How much FEC money is tied to Oppenheimer Co in 2012?
LobbyVault’s FEC.gov aggregates show $1,070,950 in itemized individual contributions for the Oppenheimer Co grouping in the 2012 cycle, from 38 contributions and 1 donor. The sum is not a corporate PAC total.
Why is there only one donor?
The aggregate counts 1 contributor identity matching this employer key in 2012. Thirty-eight contributions still appear, so the money arrived as many itemized lines from that identity. Other Oppenheimer spellings may live on other keys.
What share of Oppenheimer Co FEC money is 2012?
The grouping total stored across cycles is $5,628,492. The 2012 amount of $1,070,950 is about 19.0% of that figure.
Where is the overlay for this join?
Open Oppenheimer Co 2012 for the cycle overlay, Oppenheimer Co 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.