Oracle Corporation and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Oracle Corporation crossed with 2008

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — Oracle Corporation and 2008 — sum to $283,174. The cell holds 234 itemized contributions and 63 unique donors. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the Oracle Corporation hub nor the 2008 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Sixty-three donors and 234 Oracle Corporation lines in 2008 sit under the legal-suffix brand. A shorter ORACLE key is a neighbor if filers omitted Corporation. Federal software-license awards on USAspending are not these itemized gifts. ORACLE, ORACLE CORP, ORACLE AMERICA, and generic SOFTWARE occupation strings are other keys.

7.4% of the Oracle Corporation roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $3,812,408 ($3.8 million). The 2008 slice of $283,174 is about 7.4% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 92.6%. Treating 2008 as the Oracle Corporation FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $3,812,408 as the denominator for the 7.4% 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 2008 from being folded silently into $3,812,408.

234 contributions from 63 donors

Dividing $283,174 by 234 contributions yields about $1,210 per itemized gift. Dividing by 63 donors yields about $4,495 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.7. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

63 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. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for Oracle Corporation 2008 holds the rows.

2008 as the cycle dimension

The 2008 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. Oracle Corporation is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2008 election cycle to drop the employer filter and Oracle Corporation to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $283,174 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 234 contributions, the 63 unique donors, and the 7.4% share of $3,812,408.

Limits of the Oracle Corporation × 2008 join

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $283,174. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not a software-publishing NAICS total and not an Oracle PAC.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 63 donors, and 234 contributions. ORACLE, ORACLE CORP, ORACLE AMERICA, and generic SOFTWARE occupation strings are other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing Oracle Corporation and 2008 together

Start with $283,174, then Oracle Corporation 2008 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2008 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: Oracle Corporation, 2008, $283,174, 234 contributions, 63 donors, 7.4% of $3,812,408, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 7.4% share, the 63-donor count, and the $1,210 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word 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.

Questions

How much did Oracle Corporation donors give in 2008?

FEC.gov aggregates show $283,174 in itemized individual contributions for the Oracle Corporation grouping in the 2008 cycle, across 234 contributions and 63 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $3,812,408 all-cycle figure.

What share of Oracle Corporation FEC money is 2008?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $3,812,408. The 2008 cell of $283,174 is about 7.4% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 92.6% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the Oracle Corporation hub holds other cycles; the 2008 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

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

No. $283,174 is itemized individual receipts whose employer or occupation text grouped to Oracle Corporation. Committee PAC filings and official organization accounts sit outside this rollup unless an individual receipt itself carries the string. The key is not a software-publishing NAICS total and not an Oracle PAC.

Where is the overlay for the Oracle Corporation 2008 join?

Open Oracle Corporation 2008 for the cycle overlay, Oracle Corporation for the grouping hub, and the 2008 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.