Solomen Brothers political money in the 2014 election cycle

A join on an as-filed employer string

Campaign-finance employer fields are typed by contributors and treasurers. LobbyVault groups similar strings; it does not litigate corporate identity. Solomen Brothers is the key that survived that grouping. Dollars on this page are receipts whose employer rolled into that key and whose cycle is 2014. The headline cell is $4,118,000. The all-years cell is $54,832,748.

Readers sometimes expect a well-known bank name. This table will not substitute one. If a different spelling lives in another industry row, those receipts are not in these two cells. The tie exists so researchers can see how much of the $54,832,748 landed in the 2014 midterm window without blending keys.

Researchers who paste this string into a news archive will often find a different spelling. That mismatch is the point of keeping the FEC key intact. The $4,118,000 and the $54,832,748 attach to Solomen Brothers as grouped, not to a cleaned legal entity. If a later grouping pass splits or merges strings, the overlay will move; this copy describes the packet’s facts as stored. Until then, 15 lines and 1 donor are the 2014 shape, and 7.5% is the year share of the running roll.

Concentration: 15 lines, one donor

One donor and 15 contributions is a concentrated pattern. $4,118,000 ÷ 15 is about $274,533 per line; the full cycle amount attaches to a single donor key. Large average receipts often reflect joint-fundraising transfers, contributions to multiple committees, or Super PAC gifts reported as individual receipts. The facts do not name the recipient mix. They only fix the counts: 15 and 1.

Concentration is not secrecy and is not a violation. FEC itemization is public. A single donor can legally appear many times in a cycle. What the join refuses to do is infer strategy from the 15-line stack. For recipient names, use the overlay. For other employers in 2014, use the cycle hub.

2014 as a share of the Solomen Brothers roll

Seven-and-a-half percent of $54,832,748 is $4,118,000. The remaining 92.5% of the grouping sits in other even-year windows. A midterm cycle can still hold a large dollar cell when a small number of receipts are large. That is a statement about this key in 2014, not a statement about “finance industry” giving as a whole.

The industry hub is the place to scan other years for the same string. This tie page stays on the intersection. Mixing 2014 dollars into an all-years narrative without stating the 7.5% share would overstate the midterm’s weight.

Limits of employer grouping

Related entities, misspellings, and abbreviations fragment political-money tables. This site’s grouping reduces some of that noise and introduces its own: two real-world firms could collapse, or one firm could split. Solomen Brothers should be read as a filing key. It is not a Dunn & Bradstreet match and not a CRD number.

Individual receipts also omit PAC spending by any committee that happens to share a similar name. They omit independent expenditures. They omit state-level gifts. The $4,118,000 cell is federal itemized individuals only, tagged to this key, in 2014.

How this page sits beside the hubs

Open the Solomen Brothers 2014 overlay for the same join in table form. Open the industry page for the $54,832,748 stack. Open the 2014 cycle page to see this key among other employer strings that year. The ties index collects other industry–cycle pages that follow the same rule: name both sides, cite the cell, and stop before motive.

Citing a concentrated midterm cell

Say that FEC individual aggregates attribute $4,118,000 to the Solomen Brothers grouping in 2014, on 15 itemized contributions from one donor, and that the same grouping’s all-cycle total is $54,832,748. That sentence is complete. Adding that the money “bought” a race, funded a contract, or represented a bank’s official program would go past the table. The 15-line stack is a reporting pattern. It is not a count of unique bank accounts and not a count of unique recipient committees unless the overlay is opened.

Midterm cycles still host Super PAC receipts, joint-fundraising transfers, and candidate gifts. This join does not allocate $4,118,000 among those buckets. Open the overlay for recipients. Open the 2014 cycle hub to see how unusual a one-donor, 15-line shape looks next to occupation keys with thousands of lines. Open the industry hub to see that most of the $54,832,748 lives outside 2014. The ties index collects other employer–cycle pages that follow the same two-sided naming rule.

Questions

How much is tagged Solomen Brothers in the 2014 cycle?

FEC individual-contribution aggregates show $4,118,000 for the Solomen Brothers grouping in 2014, on 15 contributions from 1 donor. The grouping’s all-cycle total here is $54,832,748.

Why is the employer spelled Solomen Brothers?

The key is the grouped FEC employer string, not a corrected legal name. This page does not relabel the row. Receipts filed under a different spelling sit in other industry keys and are outside the $4,118,000 and $54,832,748 cells.

What does 15 contributions from one donor mean?

One person-key produced 15 itemized lines in 2014 totaling $4,118,000—about $274,533 per line. Multiple committees and report types generate multiple lines. The facts do not list those committees.

Is 2014 most of this grouping’s money?

No. $4,118,000 is 7.5% of $54,832,748. Other cycles hold the rest. Use the industry hub to see the grouping without a year filter, and the 2014 cycle hub to see other employers that year.