Vi-Jon Laboratories contributions received by BRUNNER FOR SENATE

Vi-Jon Laboratories and Brunner for Senate as a near-identity join

VI-JON LABORATORIES is the grouped employer key, hyphenated as stored. BRUNNER FOR SENATE is committee C00503391. This page reports itemized individual gifts that carried both labels. The $7,745,399 figure is the intersection. The leftover $73,500 of the employer grouping ($7,818,899 minus $7,745,399) went to other committees and is not listed here.

Hyphenation and LABORATORIES versus LABS can split a brand across keys. Filers who typed VIJON, VI-JON, or a parent-company name may sit elsewhere if stored that way. The Senate committee is a candidate account, not a connected PAC of the manufacturer.

One hundred seven contributions totaling $7,745,399 is a modest line count against a nearly complete employer overlap.

Ninety-nine percent of the Vi-Jon Laboratories grouping

The VI-JON LABORATORIES grouping shows $7,818,899 in itemized individual money. The Brunner for Senate cell is $7,745,399, or about 99% of that total. Reading the industry hub without the committee filter would still be dominated by C00503391 receipts. The join exists so that dominance is explicit.

A 99% share does not prove the company ran the campaign, bundled the gifts, or reimbursed employees. It shows how this employer string lined up against one Senate committee ID.

107 lines into C00503391

BRUNNER FOR SENATE received $7,745,399 from VI-JON LABORATORIES-coded receipts across 107 contributions. Dividing dollars by gifts gives about $72,387 per contribution. That mean is pulled by large itemized amounts. The packet does not name the 107 lines or split them by cycle.

The committee overlay includes other employers. Those rows are not in this join. Independent expenditures in the same Senate race, if filed by others, are outside this source note.

Manufacturer labels versus federal awards

Consumer-products manufacturers can appear in FDA, EPA, or contracting records. Those records are not FEC individual contributions. This join does not claim that gifts to Brunner for Senate funded USAspending awards, or that awards funded the gifts. Two ledgers, one brand hyphen.

Correlation between a laboratory employer string and a Senate committee is a reporting pattern. Causation of election or regulatory outcomes is not in the 107 lines.

Linked hubs for the hyphenated brand and the Senate account

The Vi-Jon Laboratories industry page keeps the $7,818,899 grouping and the small remainder that did not go to C00503391. The BRUNNER FOR SENATE page keeps the candidate committee. All industries ranks other manufacturer keys. All FEC ties lists neighboring employer-committee cells so this 99% overlap is not mistaken for the campaign’s entire file.

The leftover $73,500 ($7,818,899 minus $7,745,399) is the only VI-JON LABORATORIES-coded money in this grouping that did not go to C00503391. That remainder is small enough that the industry hub and this tie page will look almost the same. The join still matters: it names the Senate committee instead of leaving readers to infer it from a list. About $72,387 per contribution is $7,745,399 divided by 107.

Near-total overlap as a citation problem

Ninety-nine percent shares tempt a shortcut: treat the employer hub as the campaign. That shortcut drops the committee ID and drops the 107-line count. The accurate citation keeps all four pieces: VI-JON LABORATORIES, BRUNNER FOR SENATE (C00503391), $7,745,399, 107 itemized contributions, against a $7,818,899 grouping.

Hyphenation variants (VIJON, VI-JON, VI JON) are other keys if stored separately. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Independent expenditures in that Senate race, if filed by others, are omitted. The Senate committee overlay includes other employers not in these 107 rows. Quote the hyphenated LABORATORIES string exactly so a later recode is visible. Keep the hyphen in VI-JON LABORATORIES so VIJON, if indexed, remains a separate row. The 107-line count belongs next to $7,745,399. The leftover $73,500 of $7,818,899 is the only remainder in this grouping. Unitemized gifts stay omitted. C00503391 is the Senate committee ID in this join.

Questions

How much did Vi-Jon Laboratories-coded donors give Brunner for Senate?

FEC.gov aggregates show $7,745,399 in itemized individual contributions grouped to VI-JON LABORATORIES and received by BRUNNER FOR SENATE (C00503391). That join covers 107 contributions. The employer grouping across all committees is $7,818,899. These figures are not independent expenditures.

What share of Vi-Jon Laboratories FEC money went to this committee?

About 99% of the $7,818,899 VI-JON LABORATORIES total is in this join: $7,745,399 to C00503391. The leftover employer-coded dollars went to other committees. A near-total share describes overlap, not a corporate treasury gift.

Is $7,745,399 a donation from Vi-Jon as a company?

No. The total is itemized individual contributions whose employer field grouped to VI-JON LABORATORIES. FEC filers enter the employer string. This page does not verify employment or reimbursement. It reports the join to C00503391 only.

Does this include independent expenditures in that Senate race?

No. The source is itemized individual contributions grouped by employer/industry and recipient committee. Independent expenditures and operating costs are outside this join. Use the committee hub for C00503391 for other filing types.