Saban Productions and the 2012 federal election cycle

A one-donor cell at the industry–cycle intersection

Most employer-cycle pages spread dollars across dozens or hundreds of names. This one does not. One donor accounts for the entire $1,274,600. Twenty-one separate itemized contributions still sit in the count, so the money did not arrive as a single line. The join is still just those rows whose employer text rolled up to Saban Productions and whose dates fall in the 2012 cycle. Drop either filter and the dollar figure changes; this page holds the intersection only.

Across every cycle stored for this grouping, LobbyVault shows $25,329,424. The 2012 window is about 5.0% of that running total. A 5% slice that is almost entirely one filer’s itemized activity is a concentration statistic, not a ranking of entertainment companies and not a claim that the firm itself wrote the checks. Other cycles under the same key may look broader; they are not imported here.

Reading the Saban Productions label

Saban Productions is the employer string as matched in FEC individual files. Filers supply occupation and employer; the Commission does not assign a NAICS code. People who listed a related Saban entity under a different spelling would land on a different industry page. This join does not combine those spellings.

Because a single donor dominates the 2012 cell, the grouping’s cycle page is closer to a person-level timeline than to a workplace census. The industry hub still holds the longer multi-cycle total of $25,329,424, which can include other years and other filers. Do not treat 2012 as a substitute for that hub. A related production, distribution, or personal-name spelling would be a different industry key with its own cycle cells.

Contribution math without a roster

Twenty-one contributions and one donor imply an average of $60,700 per contribution if the $1,274,600 is divided evenly. That average is an arithmetic convenience. FEC itemization can split gifts by recipient, date, and report. The public table on this join does not list those recipients. For the overlay rows, use the Saban Productions 2012 cycle table. Twenty-one lines from one identity also means the contribution count should not be mistaken for twenty-one people.

Where 2012 sits as a cycle

The 2012 election cycle is the FEC’s two-year federal window that includes that year’s general election. Cycle-wide individual totals are far larger than $1,274,600. Placing Saban Productions beside 2012 does not measure the grouping’s share of all 2012 giving. It only isolates one employer key inside that window.

Presidential-year volume in the national file is a property of the cycle hub, not of this cell. This page does not publish cycle-wide denominators beyond the employer-specific facts above. Comparing $1,274,600 to an unpublished national total would invent a share this packet does not contain.

What the records do not prove

A single-donor cell invites stories about influence. The FEC file does not supply those stories. It supplies amounts, contribution counts, and an employer match. Independent expenditures, dark-money groups, and unitemized gifts are outside the $1,274,600. Later federal spending in another database is a different dataset.

Read the join as a filter: Saban Productions ∩ 2012. Anything beyond that filter — intent, access, or outcomes — is not in the packet. FEC individual contributions and federal award databases answer different questions; sharing a year or a famous surname does not merge them.

Where to go from this intersection

If you need the employer without 2012, open Saban Productions. If you need 2012 without the employer, open the 2012 election cycle. Other two-dimension pages live under all FEC ties. Each of those URLs drops or swaps a filter; none of them reuse the $1,274,600 as a stand-in for a different cell.

The overlay for Saban Productions 2012 is the row-level companion to this prose. One donor, 21 contributions, $1,274,600, and a 5.0% share of the $25,329,424 grouping total are the only quantities this join is licensed to repeat. Carry them to another employer or another cycle and the arithmetic stops being a fact from this packet.

Questions

How much FEC money is tied to Saban Productions in 2012?

LobbyVault’s FEC.gov aggregates show $1,274,600 in itemized individual contributions for the Saban Productions grouping in the 2012 cycle. The cell contains 21 contributions and one donor. It is not a corporate treasury total.

Why is there only one donor in the 2012 Saban Productions cell?

The aggregate counts 1 donor and 21 contributions. That means every itemized row in this join traced to a single contributor identity in the grouping. Other people may have given under different employer spellings that do not match this key.

What is the all-cycle Saban Productions total?

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $25,329,424. The 2012 amount of $1,274,600 is about 5.0% of that figure. This page does not break out the remaining cycles.

Is this Saban Productions PAC spending?

No. These are itemized individual contributions whose employer field matched Saban Productions. Committee disbursements and independent expenditures are separate FEC tables and are not included in the $1,274,600.