Uihlein Enterprises and the 2012 FEC cycle

Uihlein Enterprises crossed with 2012

The industry hub for Uihlein Enterprises stacks every cycle. The 2012 cycle hub stacks every employer. This page keeps only the overlap: $1,965,450. Sixty-three itemized gifts and a donor count of one produced it. The relationship is a filter pair, not a biography and not a corporate disclosure.

One donor and 63 contributions means repeated itemized activity by the same unique-donor key inside 2011–2012. Average gift size is about $31,198. That average can mix many committees and both years of the cycle. It is not a typical check, and it is not a payroll deduction program.

The employer string is whatever appeared on the individual receipts that the pipeline grouped to Uihlein Enterprises. The Commission does not certify that the donor owned, managed, or currently works at an entity of that name.

A small share of a $90 million grouping

$90,124,914 is the all-cycle individual total for this employer bucket. $1,965,450 in 2012 is about 2.2% of that lifetime figure. More than 97% of the grouping therefore sits in other two-year windows. Opening only the 2012 overlay would miss almost the entire FEC footprint of the string.

Lifetime scale this large usually means several cycles with substantial cells, often still concentrated among few donors. This packet does not list those other years. It only fixes 2012’s place in the stack.

Single-donor mechanics in a presidential year

A donor count of 1 is the strongest concentration the aggregate can show. Contribution count still moves: 63 rows can be a sequence of maximum gifts to many committees, a joint-fundraising trail, or both. The join publishes the counts, not the recipient list.

Presidential cycles raise the national individual-contribution total. That seasonal fact does not explain why this particular donor’s 2012 activity landed at $1,965,450, and the file does not record motive.

How to use the two hubs with this tie

If the question is “what did this employer string do in 2012?”, this cell is the answer. If the question is “what is the full Uihlein Enterprises FEC total?”, the industry hub’s $90,124,914 is the answer. If the question is “what happened in 2012 across employers?”, the cycle hub is the answer. Mixing those questions is how a 2.2% slice gets treated as the whole.

Internal links on this page keep those three views one click apart, plus the ties index for other industry-cycle pairs.

Holding-company strings and a 2.2% corrective

Family-office and holding-company employer strings often concentrate FEC individual money among very few unique-donor keys. Uihlein Enterprises in 2012 is that pattern in numbers: $1,965,450, 63 gifts, one donor. The lifetime $90,124,914 total says the same string appears, with force, in other cycles this page does not list.

The 2.2% share is the most important corrective on the page. Seven-figure cycle cells attract attention. The denominator is $90,124,914. Without it, 2012 looks like the story instead of a thin slice. Opening only the overlay would hide more than 97% of the grouping’s published individual total.

Sixty-three contributions from one key is a long trail. It can include many committees, joint-fundraising vehicles, and both years of the presidential cycle. This join counts them. It does not list them. Other FEC form families would be required to show a corporate or PAC gift under a similar name.

A lifetime grouping of $90,124,914 next to a 2012 cell of $1,965,450 is the clearest illustration in this slice that raw dollars and share of lifetime can tell opposite-looking stories. The cell is large as a news number and small as a fraction. The 63 contributions from one unique-donor key explain how a seven-figure window can still be a 2.2% slice: other cycles, not shown here as dollar amounts, hold the rest of the stack.

Holding-company employer strings also travel with family-office giving that may use several legal names across years. This bucket is Uihlein Enterprises only. Related names are other pages if the pipeline stored them separately. The 2012 cycle hub will show many employer cells larger and smaller than $1,965,450. Sorting those cells is a table operation, not a ranking of influence.

What the join refuses to claim

The page does not assign party, candidate, or issue. It does not convert a personal employer tag into a corporate contribution. It does not link FEC gifts to USAspending awards, even if a similar business name appears in both systems.

Line items belong on the Uihlein Enterprises 2012 overlay. Other cycles belong on the industry hub. Other 2012 employers belong on the cycle hub.

Questions

How much did Uihlein Enterprises-linked giving total in 2012?

The 2012-cycle cell is $1,965,450 in itemized individual contributions, from 63 contributions and 1 donor, according to FEC.gov aggregates. That is the employer-cycle join, not PAC spending and not the grouping’s $90,124,914 all-cycle total.

If 2012 was $1.97 million, why call it a small share?

Because the grouping lifetime is $90,124,914. $1,965,450 is about 2.2% of that stack. Raw dollars can look large while the cell remains a thin slice of the employer string’s full FEC history. 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.

Does one donor mean one person funded the whole 2012 cell?

The unique-donor count is 1 for this cell, so the aggregate treats the $1,965,450 as coming from a single donor key. That key can still cover gifts to many committees. The overlay lists receipts; this join only reports the rolled-up counts.

Do these contributions fund federal contracts?

No. FEC individual contribution aggregates and USAspending award data are different systems. This page does not claim that 2012 campaign gifts paid for federal obligations. 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.