Stride Rite Corp and the 2012 FEC cycle

Stride Rite Corp meeting the 2012 cycle

Two dimensions define this page. One is the employer bucket Stride Rite Corp. The other is the 2012 federal election cycle. The join is $1,990,794. Without both filters, a reader would either see every cycle for the company string or every employer for 2012. This record exists so those two views can be crossed.

Three donors wrote (or were keyed as) 59 itemized gifts. That is a concentrated cell: many contributions, few unique people. Average gift size is about $33,742; average per donor is about $663,598. Those ratios describe a small set of large itemized receipts, not a workplace-wide collection.

Employer text is still self-reported. The grouping does not prove current employment, a subsidiary relationship, or that the corporation itself gave.

Nearly a third of the grouping’s FEC total

$6,274,148 is every cycle combined for Stride Rite Corp in this table. $1,990,794 in 2012 is about 31.7% of that lifetime figure. Other windows still hold more than two-thirds of the bucket. The 2012 overlay is the largest single-cycle pile among the facts on this packet, but it is not the whole employer story.

A 31.7% share in a presidential year can reflect a few donors’ calendars as easily as it can reflect a firm’s headcount. With only three donors in the cell, the first explanation is the one the counts support.

59 gifts from three people

Repeat itemized giving inside a two-year window is common at the top of FEC files: primaries, generals, recounts, and multiple committees all create extra rows. 59 contributions from 3 donors is that pattern in extreme. The unique-donor key collapsed those rows to three people; the contribution count did not.

None of those mechanics convert individual receipts into corporate treasury spending. PAC reports, if they exist under a similar name, are outside this aggregate.

2012 as the cycle filter

The 2012 cycle tags federal activity in 2011–2012. Stride Rite Corp’s $1,990,794 is one employer’s slice of that tag. The cycle hub will show many larger and smaller employer cells. Ranking them as influence would add a meaning the FEC file does not carry.

Presidential years raise national itemized totals. That background does not assign a reason to these three donors.

Brand strings that outlive the shelf

Footwear and apparel names often remain on FEC employer lines after a brand is sold, folded, or restyled. A 2012 tag can describe a then-current job, a former employer, or a holding-company habit. The $1,990,794 cell does not resolve those biographies. It resolves two keys: Stride Rite Corp and the 2012 cycle.

A 31.7% share is large enough that 2012 is a primary chapter for this employer string. It is not large enough to skip the industry hub. Subtract $1,990,794 from $6,274,148 and other cycles still hold the majority of the bucket. Three unique-donor keys against 59 contributions is repeated giving across a presidential window, not a workplace collection.

Consumer-brand ranking by this cell would be a category error. The file has no sales, employment, or market-share fields. Party and candidate live on the overlay. Federal awards live in USAspending, a different ledger with different identifiers.

Three unique-donor keys are few enough that the $1,990,794 cell is closer to a biography than to a workforce. The overlay is the only honest next click. This relationship page will not name those people, will not assign party, and will not convert Inc-style employer text into a corporate treasury. The 31.7% share of $6,274,148 is the proportion of the grouping’s published individual total that landed in 2012, nothing more.

Fifty-nine contributions across a two-year presidential window can include recount funds, joint fundraising, and multiple candidate committees. Each of those events adds a row without adding a donor key. Researchers who treat 59 as 59 employees would be inventing a headcount the FEC file does not contain. The donor count is 3. The dollar total is $1,990,794. Those are the facts the join is allowed to repeat.

What the relationship excludes

The join does not show party, candidate, or state. It does not show federal contracts or grants. Campaign gifts and USAspending awards remain separate public records.

Receipt-level detail is on the Stride Rite Corp 2012 overlay. Other years are on the industry hub. Other 2012 employers are on the cycle hub. Other joins are on the ties index.

Questions

How much FEC money links Stride Rite Corp to 2012?

The Stride Rite Corp grouping’s 2012 cell is $1,990,794 in itemized individual contributions, from 59 contributions and 3 donors, per FEC.gov aggregates. That join is not PAC spending and not the grouping’s $6,274,148 all-cycle total.

Why is 2012 such a large share of Stride Rite Corp’s total?

$1,990,794 is about 31.7% of $6,274,148. With only three donors in the cell, a small number of large itemized gifts can dominate a modest lifetime bucket. The share is a table ratio, not a finding about the company’s politics.

Did the corporation donate $1,990,794?

The file is individual contributions tagged with the Stride Rite Corp employer grouping. Individual receipts are personal gifts. They are not the same as a corporation writing a committee check, which would appear on other FEC forms if it happened.

Are these donations connected to federal awards?

No. This page reports FEC individual contribution aggregates. It does not include USAspending obligations and does not claim that campaign receipts funded federal awards. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the industry hub holds other cycles; the cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.