Scudder, Stevens & Clark political contributions from Boston, MA

How Scudder, Stevens & Clark meets Boston

This page is a join. One dimension is contributor city Boston, MA. The other is employer/industry grouping Scudder, Stevens & Clark (stored as SCUDDER, STEVENS & CLARK). $15,000 is the intersection — dollars on receipts that carry both labels. $280,702,761 is the city bucket before the employer filter, built from 457,209 itemized lines. The harvested donor count inside the intersection is 1 donor, not a census of everyone in Boston who ever worked in a related trade.

LobbyVault does not add a third table and does not route these dollars through USAspending. A Form 3 itemization is not a federal award. Open the Boston, MA city hub for the unfiltered city book, the Scudder, Stevens & Clark industry hub for the grouping outside this city filter, Massachusetts campaign finance for the state roll-up, and All FEC ties for sibling joins. Each of those pages answers a different question. This one answers only the intersection.

3 contributions from 1 donor produced $15,000. Repeat gifts add receipts; 1 donor is the headcount in this extract for the join, not a Census of Scudder, Stevens & Clark workers in Boston. Arithmetic mean per receipt is about $5,000; per donor, about $15,000. Those means are division of packet facts, not typical salaries and not medians.

What the Boston city book holds

Boston indexes $280,702,761 ($280.7 million rounded) on 457,209 itemized individual contributions. City labels are filer-entered. A suburb that types a different city never enters $280,702,761. Joint-fundraising and committee addresses that happen to list Boston can sit in the same bucket as residents. The packet does not publish a unique-donor count for the city as a whole, so this page does not invent one from 457,209.

Massachusetts campaign-finance pages cover the state, which is a larger geography than Boston. Do not treat $280,702,761 as the MA state total. Unitemized federal gifts never carry a published city in this roll-up, so they never enter $280,702,761. State-office campaigns in Massachusetts file under state law and sit outside these FEC individual-contribution aggregates.

The Scudder, Stevens & Clark slice inside Boston

Inside Boston, receipts tagged Scudder, Stevens & Clark total $15,000 on 3 lines from 1 donor. That is under 0.1% of $280,702,761. About $5,000 per receipt is $15,000 divided by 3. About $15,000 per harvested donor is $15,000 divided by 1. Those ratios describe shape. They are not medians, not typical household gifts, and not salaries.

Scudder, Stevens & Clark is a filer-entered employer string, not a NAICS sector and not every affiliate, predecessor name, or related partnership. Other spellings of the same organization are other keys and are omitted from $15,000. A donor in Boston who stored a different employer never enters this join. A donor outside Boston who stored SCUDDER, STEVENS & CLARK belongs on the industry hub, not here.

What this join is not

It is not a ranking of Boston neighborhoods. It is not a safety comparison. It is not proof that Scudder, Stevens & Clark money funded a federal contract, grant, or loan. Campaign contributions and USAspending awards are different disclosure systems even when they mention the same city. This packet has no award dollars, so this page prints none.

It is not Scudder, Stevens & Clark nationwide unless the industry hub — a different page — is cited separately. It is not a PAC independent-expenditure total. Motive is not a field. Party split is not a field in this packet. Missing fields stay missing. Correlation is not causation: two filer-entered fields meeting is not evidence that Scudder, Stevens & Clark controls Boston politics.

How to cite the Boston × Scudder, Stevens & Clark facts

Citation template: employer name Scudder, Stevens & Clark, contributor city Boston, MA, $15,000 on 3 itemized individual contributions from 1 donor, against a city-wide $280,702,761 on 457,209 contributions (under 0.1% of city dollars). Source: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates indexed on LobbyVault. City labels are filer-entered.

Then send the reader to the live Boston, MA hub, the Scudder, Stevens & Clark industry page, Massachusetts campaign finance, and All FEC ties. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live hubs control. Do not add $15,000 to $280,702,761; the first number is already inside the second.

Using the Boston and Scudder, Stevens & Clark hubs together

The Boston, MA hub is the unfiltered city index: $280,702,761 on 457,209 lines. The Scudder, Stevens & Clark hub is the grouping without this city's filter. Massachusetts campaign finance is the state roll-up, a larger geography than Boston. All FEC ties is the inventory of other two-table pages. Use all four links. None of them turns $15,000 into a federal award.

If you need names, open the live city and industry hubs rather than reverse-engineering 1 donor from this snapshot. If you need cycle cuts of Boston, those are city-cycle joins, not this file. If you need Scudder, Stevens & Clark in a single even-year window, those are industry-cycle joins. This file stays on one city and one employer string: Boston and Scudder, Stevens & Clark, $15,000, 3 receipts, 1 donor.

Questions

How much did Scudder, Stevens & Clark donors in Boston contribute?

Itemized individual contributions tagged Scudder, Stevens & Clark and Boston, MA total $15,000 across 3 receipts from 1 donor on FEC.gov aggregates indexed here. That join is under 0.1% of Boston's $280,702,761 city-wide book. It is not a PAC total. Original reports remain on FEC.gov.

Is $15,000 all Scudder, Stevens & Clark money nationwide?

No. $15,000 is only the Boston, MA filter on stored string SCUDDER, STEVENS & CLARK. Other cities that stored the same string belong on the industry hub, not in this join. 3 receipts and 1 donor are likewise city-filtered. Do not treat the slice as a national total.

Why can receipts (3) exceed donors (1)?

Repeat itemized gifts from the same person add lines without adding people. 3 contributions and 1 donor are both packet facts for Scudder, Stevens & Clark in Boston. The per-receipt mean about $5,000 and per-donor mean about $15,000 are arithmetic only. They are not medians.

Are Scudder, Stevens & Clark gifts in Boston the same as federal awards?

No. FEC individual contributions and USAspending awards are different disclosure systems. $15,000 is a contribution total. This packet has no obligation dollars. Sharing the city name does not move money from one statute to the other.