Uihlein Enterprises political money in the 2014 election cycle

What this industry–cycle join measures

LobbyVault stores employer/industry totals and cycle totals as separate rolls. This page intersects them: every dollar counted here is an FEC individual contribution whose employer field grouped to Uihlein Enterprises and whose two-year window is 2014. The cycle cell is $4,269,850. The grouping’s all-cycle cell is $90,124,914. Dividing those two figures puts 2014 at 4.7% of the grouping’s recorded individual money. That share is a table ratio, not a claim that 2014 was unusually active or quiet without looking at other cycles.

The 91 contributions and 1 donor describe concentration, not motive. One filer can appear on many Schedule A lines in a cycle—primary, general, joint fundraising, and committee transfers all generate separate receipts. FEC.gov publishes those receipts as they were reported. This join does not merge household members, does not recode related LLCs, and does not infer that the employer paid the money. It counts itemized individual gifts tagged with that employer string.

The Uihlein Enterprises side of the table

Across every cycle in the aggregate, the Uihlein Enterprises grouping totals $90,124,914 in itemized individual contributions. That figure is a running employer roll. It mixes presidential years, midterms, and off-cycle filings whenever the employer string matched. It is not revenue of a company, not PAC spending, and not independent-expenditure volume. Readers who want the grouping without a year filter should open the industry hub; this tie page exists so the 2014 cut is not lost inside that all-years stack.

Employer fields on FEC Form 3 and related schedules are self-reported. Spellings drift. Subsidiaries and holding-company names can split or collapse depending on how a treasurer typed the line. Uihlein Enterprises is the canonical key this site uses after grouping those strings. If a receipt used a different legal name, it sits in another industry row even if a researcher would treat the entities as related.

The 2014 cycle cut

Federal cycles are even-numbered two-year windows. 2014 covers the midterm Congress, not a presidential contest. Individual receipts attributed here still flow to candidate committees, party committees, PACs, and Super PACs that filed with the FEC in that window. The $4,269,850 is the sum of those tagged receipts, not a campaign’s cash-on-hand and not a party’s coordinated budget.

Ninety-one lines from one donor implies a high dollars-per-receipt pattern: $4,269,850 divided by 91 is about $46,921 per contribution, and the entire cycle amount sits on a single donor key. Those averages are arithmetic on the three cycle facts. They do not prove earmarking, bundling, or a contribution-limit strategy. Contribution limits, joint-fundraising splits, and redesignations all change how many lines appear for one person.

How to read the overlay and the hubs

The overlay target is the industry-by-cycle data view for Uihlein Enterprises in 2014. That page carries the same join with charts and recipient lists drawn from the aggregates. The industry hub stacks every cycle for the grouping. The 2014 election-cycle hub stacks every employer string for that year. This tie page is the prose explanation of why those three URLs exist and how the $4,269,850 cell relates to the $90,124,914 cell.

Cross-cycle comparison is valid only as a comparison of the same employer key. It is not a ranking of industries, not a measure of lobbying spend, and not a forecast of 2016 or later filings. Other groupings in the 2014 cycle may show thousands of donors at smaller average gifts; this grouping shows the opposite shape. Both shapes are FEC reporting, not a quality score.

Caveats on the join

Itemized individual contributions omit unitemized gifts below the FEC threshold and omit non-federal accounts. They also omit independent expenditures, which Super PACs report on different schedules. A 4.7% share of an employer grouping can coexist with large independent-expenditure activity that never appears in this cell. Do not treat the join as a complete political-money census for the name Uihlein Enterprises.

The table does not say the donor funded federal contracts, grants, or loans. FEC receipts and USAspending awards are different datasets. Geography or employer names may overlap in other LobbyVault views; overlap is not a funding trail. For the rest of the industry–cycle catalog, use the ties index.

Questions

How much did Uihlein Enterprises donors give in the 2014 FEC cycle?

FEC individual-contribution aggregates attribute $4,269,850 to the Uihlein Enterprises grouping in 2014. That is 91 itemized contributions from 1 donor. The same grouping’s all-cycle total in this table is $90,124,914, so 2014 is 4.7% of that running roll.

Does one donor mean one check?

No. The cycle shows 91 contributions on one donor key. A single person can appear on many Schedule A lines in a two-year window. The $4,269,850 figure is the sum of those lines, not a count of unique bank transfers or unique recipient committees.

Is this company PAC money or employee money?

This join is built from individual contribution records whose employer field grouped to Uihlein Enterprises. It is not a corporate treasury contribution and not a separate PAC’s disbursements. FEC.gov is the source. Employer is a self-reported field on the receipt.

Where do I see other years for the same employer?

Open the Uihlein Enterprises industry hub for the all-cycle $90,124,914 roll, or the 2014 cycle hub for every employer string that year. The overlay page holds the same 2014 intersection with the underlying tables.