The Carlyle Group and the 2008 FEC election cycle

Reading $393,578 as an intersection

$393,578 is the amount that survives both filters. The employer filter is The Carlyle Group (THE CARLYLE GROUP). The cycle filter is 2008. FEC.gov itemized individual contributions supply the dollars, the 147 lines, and the 68 donors.

Because the grouping is private-equity employer text, the cell is a text match. Household members, retirees, and former workers can reuse a workplace or title. The Commission does not audit those claims on this aggregate.

Use the industry hub when the question is every cycle for The Carlyle Group. Use the 2008 election cycle when the question is every string that year. Use this tie when the question is both.

The $6,539,219 denominator

Divide $393,578 by $6,539,219 and the result is about 6.0%. The complementary share is 94.0%, or $6,145,641 outside 2008. Those two pieces add to the grouping total on FEC.gov as stored here.

$6,539,219 is not earnings, assets, or federal contract value. It is summed itemized individual contributions that matched THE CARLYLE GROUP in any cycle in this table. The denominator $6,539,219 is every cycle stored for THE CARLYLE GROUP, not revenue and not assets. $393,578 over $6,539,219 is about 6.0%. The leftover $6,145,641 is other even-year windows on the The Carlyle Group hub.

$2,677 per contribution, $5,788 per donor

Per-gift mean $2,677 and per-donor mean $5,788 follow from $393,578, 147, and 68. About 2.2 itemized lines per donor is the third ratio. Report them as means, not as typical gifts.

Contributor identities can include people who listed THE CARLYLE GROUP as employer or occupation without a current job match. The FEC form is self-reported. Means: $2,677 per itemized contribution, $5,788 per unique donor, 2.2 contributions per donor. Report them as arithmetic on $393,578, 147, and 68. They are not medians.

Cycle tag versus calendar year

Calendar year 2008 and FEC cycle 2008 are easy to confuse. The stored tag is the cycle. Both years of the window can feed $393,578. This prose does not split them because the packet does not.

The Carlyle Group remains one grouping among many on the 2008 hub. This join does not list siblings. All FEC ties is the directory of other two-dimension pages. 2008 as a cycle tag includes the odd year paired with that even year. This packet does not split those years. $393,578 is the two-year cell.

Correlation is not a spending trail

A shared year and a shared employer word are not a causal chain. $393,578 is the itemized-individual overlap. It is not proof that The Carlyle Group as an organization directed the gifts, and it is not proof that the gifts bought federal contracts.

All FEC ties collects other joins. Live overlay numbers win if they disagree with this snapshot. FEC.gov remains the originating public record. PAC filings sit outside $393,578. So do independent expenditures and unitemized gifts. So do USAspending obligations. The page is private-equity employer text, not a Carlyle PAC, a private-equity NAICS rollup, or Carlyle as a corporate treasury.

Using the four internal links

Four hrefs cover the join: the 2008 overlay for this string, the The Carlyle Group industry hub, the 2008 election cycle hub, and the ties index. Together they let a reader add or remove one filter at a time without leaving FEC itemized-individual space.

This snapshot recorded $393,578 from 147 contributions and 68 donors. Live pages can move. FEC.gov is the originating filing system. Citation order that preserves the join: dollars first ($393,578), then both keys (The Carlyle Group, 2008), then volume (147 contributions, 68 donors), then source (FEC.gov). Restating the join without new numbers: The Carlyle Group in 2008 is $393,578 from 147 itemized individual contributions and 68 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $6,539,219 across cycles, so 2008 is about 6.0% and other windows hold $6,145,641 (94.0%). The grouping is private-equity employer text, not a Carlyle PAC, a private-equity NAICS rollup, or Carlyle 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 $2,677; mean per donor about $5,788; about 2.2 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2008 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $393,578.

Questions

How much did The Carlyle Group donors give in 2008?

The The Carlyle Group × 2008 cell is $393,578. FEC.gov counted 147 itemized individual contributions from 68 unique donors. That is the join, not the $6,539,219 lifetime grouping total and not a committee disbursement. FEC.gov is the source for $393,578, 147 contributions, and 68 donors in the The Carlyle Group × 2008 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,539,219.

What share of The Carlyle Group FEC money is 2008?

About 6.0%. $393,578 divided by $6,539,219 is the 2008 share for this exact string. $6,145,641 (94.0%) sits in other cycles. No national 2008 denominator is in the packet. FEC.gov is the source for $393,578, 147 contributions, and 68 donors in the The Carlyle Group × 2008 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,539,219.

Does this include only The Carlyle Group employees?

No. 68 unique donors matched THE CARLYLE GROUP in 2008. Retirees, household members, and former workers can reuse the string. Neighboring spellings are other keys. The total remains $393,578. FEC.gov is the source for $393,578, 147 contributions, and 68 donors in the The Carlyle Group × 2008 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,539,219.

Where is the overlay for the The Carlyle Group 2008 join?

The overlay path is the The Carlyle Group 2008 link. The industry hub drops the year. The 2008 election cycle drops the string. All FEC ties is the directory of joins. Dollars: $393,578. FEC.gov is the source for $393,578, 147 contributions, and 68 donors in the The Carlyle Group × 2008 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $6,539,219.