US Government and the 2010 FEC election cycle

US Government employer text × 2010

Employer groupings sit on one axis; election cycles sit on the other. Rows that match both — US Government and 2010 — sum to $310,269. The cell holds 389 itemized contributions and 153 unique donors. The total is not an official organization disbursement and does not name recipients. Independent expenditures and committee transfers live in other FEC tables.

Neither the US Government hub nor the 2010 election cycle hub is this number; each hub drops one of the two keys. US Government is a catch-all employer line, not an agency roster. One hundred fifty-three donors in 2010 typed that generic phrase. People who named a department or a service branch sit on those more specific keys. This join does not roll those keys into the generic string. U.S. GOVERNMENT, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, US ARMY, US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, and named agencies are other keys. This page is the generic US Government string.

3.2% of the US Government roll

The grouping’s stored total across cycles is $9,651,418 ($9.7 million). The 2010 slice of $310,269 is about 3.2% of that running sum. Other even-year windows hold the remaining 96.8%. Treating 2010 as the US Government FEC story would ignore that remainder.

Treat $9,651,418 as the denominator for the 3.2% share. It is not market capitalization, not revenue, and not proof of a multi-year political program. The industry hub is the year index for this string. This tie keeps 2010 from being folded silently into $9,651,418.

389 contributions from 153 donors

Dividing $310,269 by 389 contributions yields about $798 per itemized gift. Dividing by 153 donors yields about $2,028 per donor. Contributions per donor average about 2.5. Those means describe the arithmetic on the packet. They are not medians and not a party split.

153 unique donors are contributor identities, not a headcount of employees, licensees, or members. Retirees and household members who reuse a workplace or title can appear. Repeat gifts raise the contribution count faster than the donor count. The overlay for US Government 2010 holds the rows.

2010 as the cycle dimension

The 2010 election cycle hub includes every stored employer for that window. US Government is one cell in that matrix. This packet does not publish a cycle-wide denominator, so no national share is stated. Open the 2010 election cycle to drop the employer filter and US Government to drop the year.

Gifts from both years of the two-year FEC window sit in the $310,269 cell because the cycle is a two-year tag, not a single Tuesday. That mechanical fact is easy to forget when a searcher wants an election-night number. The overlay is where dates become visible. This join publishes the cycle total, the 389 contributions, the 153 unique donors, and the 3.2% share of $9,651,418.

Service or agency text, not appropriations

Itemized individual receipts are the universe. Unitemized gifts, independent expenditures, and PAC disbursements sit outside $310,269. Federal awards in other databases are different datasets. Sharing an employer string and a calendar year does not turn these gifts into contracts or grants. The page is not a public-administration NAICS total and not federal appropriated funds.

Correlation between an employer or occupation string and a cycle year is not causation. The records show a text match, a date window, 153 donors, and 389 contributions. U.S. GOVERNMENT, FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, US ARMY, US HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, and named agencies are other keys. This page is the generic US Government string. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages.

Citing US Government and 2010 together

Start with $310,269, then US Government 2010 for rows, then the industry hub or the 2010 election cycle if a filter needs to come off. Citation template: US Government, 2010, $310,269, 389 contributions, 153 donors, 3.2% of $9,651,418, source FEC.gov. Keep neighboring spellings and occupation titles out of the total unless they grouped to this exact string.

The 3.2% share, the 153-donor count, and the $798 mean gift belong to this intersection. Carry them onto a successor label or a sibling occupation word and they stop being facts from this packet. This prose is a packet snapshot. If a later extract disagrees, FEC.gov and the live overlay control.

Questions

How much did US Government donors give in 2010?

FEC.gov aggregates show $310,269 in itemized individual contributions for the US Government grouping in the 2010 cycle, across 389 contributions and 153 donors. That sum is not a PAC total and not the $9,651,418 all-cycle figure.

What share of US Government FEC money is 2010?

The grouping’s all-cycle total is $9,651,418. The 2010 cell of $310,269 is about 3.2% of that figure. Other cycles hold the remaining 96.8% on the industry hub. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the US Government hub holds other cycles; the 2010 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Are these official US Government funds?

No. $310,269 is individual receipts whose employer text grouped to US Government. Appropriated funds and official accounts are not the payor. Punctuation variants and named agencies are other keys with their own totals. The overlay lists itemized rows for this cell; the US Government hub holds other cycles; the 2010 election cycle hub holds other employer strings from the same window.

Where is the overlay for the US Government 2010 join?

Open US Government 2010 for the cycle overlay, US Government for the grouping hub, and the 2010 election cycle for the year without this employer filter. All FEC ties lists other two-dimension pages. This JSON file names the join; the overlay holds the itemized rows.