The Blackstone Group and the 2014 FEC cycle

The The Blackstone Group × 2014 join

LobbyVault stores FEC employer/industry strings separately from election cycles. Crossing them for The Blackstone Group and 2014 yields $277,150. That is 83 itemized lines and 36 unique donors. The figure is not a committee’s reported disbursement. FEC.gov remains the underlying source.

Private-equity employer text can collide with similar form text. This join uses the exact grouping THE BLACKSTONE GROUP. Related employer words, abbreviations, and occupation titles are not added. The 36 donor identities are contributor keys, not a headcount of a workforce.

Dropping either filter changes the story. Drop the year and you see $4,480,166. Drop the string and you see the entire 2014 cycle. This page holds both filters at once.

Lifetime The Blackstone Group money versus 2014

A lifetime figure of $4,480,166 can swallow a single cycle if the join is skipped. 2014 is $277,150, about 6.2%. The leftover $4,203,016 belongs on other cycle pages for the same string, not in this cell.

$4,480,166 is still only this exact grouping. It is not every related company name and not a sector total. 6.2% describes 2014 inside The Blackstone Group, nothing else. $4,480,166 is the running sum for exact string THE BLACKSTONE GROUP. 2014 contributes $277,150 (6.2%); the complement is $4,203,016 (93.8%). Changing one character in the employer field would move money to another grouping and change both the numerator and the denominator.

Means on $277,150

Packet arithmetic: $277,150 ÷ 83 ≈ $3,339 per contribution; $277,150 ÷ 36 ≈ $7,699 per donor; 83 ÷ 36 ≈ 2.3 contributions per donor. None of those figures is a median, a mode, or a party breakdown.

The Commission’s itemized-individual universe excludes unitemized gifts. Adding those would change the means. This join does not add them. 36 unique donors produced 83 itemized receipts. The implied 2.3 contributions per donor is a mean. This JSON file does not name those donors. The overlay is the row store.

What the 2014 election cycle hub still holds

Remove The Blackstone Group and the 2014 cycle still contains every other grouping. This file does not add those dollars. Keep both keys if the question is THE BLACKSTONE GROUP in 2014: $277,150, 83 contributions, 36 donors.

Presidential-year and midterm-year cycles both use the same two-year tagging rule. This packet does not classify 2014 beyond the year number in the facts. The 2014 election cycle hub still contains every other employer string. This tie keeps The Blackstone Group on. Without a cycle-wide total in the facts, $277,150 cannot be turned into a percent of national 2014 itemized giving.

FEC gifts are not federal awards

The Blackstone Group entities can appear in federal contracting files. USAspending obligations are not these campaign gifts. This join does not claim that $277,150 funded federal work, or that federal work funded the gifts. Different datasets, same possible name collision.

Unitemized contributions never enter 83 or $277,150. Committee-to-committee transfers and independent expenditures live elsewhere. Cite FEC.gov for the itemized-individual join only. Unitemized individual gifts never enter $277,150. Independent expenditures and PAC disbursements are other FEC tables. USAspending is a different database. Sharing a company-like string does not merge those ledgers.

A citation template for this join

Suggested citation: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, employer/industry grouping THE BLACKSTONE GROUP, election cycle 2014, $277,150, 83 contributions, 36 donors (6.2% of $4,480,166 stored for the string).

Do not append NAICS codes, USAspending dollars, or named donors. Those facts are not in the packet. If a later overlay revises $277,150, the overlay controls. Internal links are the navigation: The Blackstone Group 2014 for the overlay, The Blackstone Group for other years, 2014 election cycle for other strings, All FEC ties for other joins. The canonical explanation path is the ties URL in the packet. Restating the join without new numbers: The Blackstone Group in 2014 is $277,150 from 83 itemized individual contributions and 36 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $4,480,166 across cycles, so 2014 is about 6.2% and other windows hold $4,203,016 (93.8%). The grouping is private-equity employer text, not a Blackstone PAC, Blackstone Group without The as a sibling string, or the firm as a corporate treasury. No donor names, recipient committees, party split, or USAspending dollars are in this packet. Live overlay pages override this snapshot. Mean gift size is about $3,339; mean per donor about $7,699; about 2.3 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2014 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $277,150.

Questions

How much did The Blackstone Group donors give in 2014?

$277,150 is the itemized-individual total for THE BLACKSTONE GROUP in 2014. Volume: 83 contributions, 36 donors. Source FEC.gov. PAC spending and unitemized gifts are outside the cell. FEC.gov is the source for $277,150, 83 contributions, and 36 donors in the The Blackstone Group × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $4,480,166.

What share of The Blackstone Group FEC money is 2014?

2014 holds $277,150 of the $4,480,166 stored for The Blackstone Group, roughly 6.2%. The leftover $4,203,016 is other windows on the The Blackstone Group hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $277,150, 83 contributions, and 36 donors in the The Blackstone Group × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $4,480,166.

Does this include only The Blackstone Group employees?

The grouping is private-equity employer text, not a verified roster. 83 itemized lines from 36 donors produced $277,150 in 2014. Employment status is not a field in this aggregate. FEC.gov is the source for $277,150, 83 contributions, and 36 donors in the The Blackstone Group × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $4,480,166.

Where is the overlay for the The Blackstone Group 2014 join?

Use the four packet hrefs: The Blackstone Group 2014, The Blackstone Group, 2014 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Live overlay rows sit on the first of those. This file explains $277,150 as the join. FEC.gov is the source for $277,150, 83 contributions, and 36 donors in the The Blackstone Group × 2014 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $4,480,166.