State of California and the 2012 FEC election cycle

State of California employer text × 2012

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — State of California and 2012 — sum to $743,396. 751 itemized contributions and 244 unique donors produced it. 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 State of California hub nor the 2012 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. Two hundred forty-four donors and 751 lines in 2012 listed State of California as employer. The string is workplace text, not a controller’s warrant. University of California is a neighboring campus key with its own 2012 cell. Named departments that filers typed in full sit on those more specific keys. CALIFORNIA, STATE OF CA, CALIFORNIA STATE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, and named California agencies are other keys.

9.2% of the State of California roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $8,112,855 ($8.1 million). The 2012 slice of $743,396 is about 9.2% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 90.8%. Treating 2012 as the State of California FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $8,112,855 as the denominator for the 9.2% 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 2012 from being folded silently into $8,112,855.

751 contributions from 244 donors

Dividing $743,396 by 751 contributions yields about $990 per itemized gift. Dividing by 244 donors yields about $3,047 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 3.1. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

244 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 State of California 2012 holds the rows.

2012 as the cycle dimension

The 2012 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. State of California is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2012 election cycle to drop the employer filter and State of California to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $743,396 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 751 contributions, the 244 unique donors, and the 9.2% share of $8,112,855.

Service or agency text, not appropriations

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $743,396. 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 state-government NAICS total and not California appropriated funds.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 244 donors, and 751 contributions. CALIFORNIA, STATE OF CA, CALIFORNIA STATE, UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, and named California agencies are other keys. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing State of California and 2012 together

Start with $743,396, then State of California 2012 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2012 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: State of California, 2012, $743,396, 751 contributions, 244 donors, 9.2% of $8,112,855, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 9.2% share, the 244-donor count, and the $990 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 State of California donors give in 2012?

FEC.gov aggregates show $743,396 in itemized individual contributions for the State of California grouping in the 2012 cycle, across 751 contributions and 244 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $8,112,855 all-cycle figure.

What share of State of California FEC money is 2012?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $8,112,855. The 2012 cell of $743,396 is about 9.2% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 90.8% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the State of California hub holds other cycles; the 2012 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Are these official State of California funds?

No. $743,396 is individual receipts whose employer text grouped to State of California. Appropriated funds and official accounts are not the payor. Punctuation variants and named agencies are other keys with their own totals. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the State of California hub holds other cycles; the 2012 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the State of California 2012 join?

Open State of California 2012 for the cycle overlay, State of California for the grouping hub, and the 2012 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.