Warner Brothers and the 2012 FEC election cycle

Warner Brothers is one axis; 2012 is the other

An industry-cycle page is not a restatement of Warner Brothers and not a restatement of 2012. It is the cell where they meet: $345,493, 147 contributions, 30 donors. FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates by employer/industry grouping and election cycle are the source note.

On the employer side, Warner Brothers is studio employer text as stored. On the cycle side, 2012 is a two-year FEC window, not a single Election Day. Gifts dated in either year of that window sit in $345,493.

Leaving either axis off the citation misstates the record. $4,613,693 is the lifetime Warner Brothers bucket. The 2012 hub is every grouping that year. The join is $345,493.

2012 is not the whole Warner Brothers story

Warner Brothers across all cycles is $4,613,693. Warner Brothers in 2012 is $345,493 — about 7.5%. The gap is $4,268,200. Closing that gap would require other cycle joins, which this packet does not list.

A reader who only opens the 2012 overlay still sees $345,493 for this string, not $4,613,693. A reader who only opens the industry hub still needs the year filter to recover $345,493. 2012 holds $345,493 of $4,613,693 for this string — about 7.5%. Other cycles hold $4,268,200 (92.5%). Folding those other cycles into a 2012 citation would misstate the record by $4,268,200.

What 30 unique donors are not

30 unique donors are not a census of Warner Brothers. They are the identities attached to 147 itemized rows that summed to $345,493. Mean gift $2,350; mean per donor $11,516; about 4.9 rows each.

Household reuse of a workplace string is common on FEC forms. That inflates neither $4,613,693 nor $345,493 with “extra companies”; it can inflate donor counts relative to a strict employee roster that this table does not have. 147 itemized contributions from 30 donors produced the cell. Unique donors are contributor keys, not employees counted by HR. This file does not invent names for those 30 identities.

How FEC cycle 2012 works on this join

Cycle 2012 is the second key in the join. Combined with WARNER BROTHERS, it produces $345,493. Combined with nothing, it is the year hub. Combined with a different string, it is a different tie.

Itemized receipts in either year of the window are in scope. Unitemized receipts are not. Independent expenditures are not. Those exclusions apply regardless of Warner Brothers. The 2012 hub without Warner Brothers is a different page. The Warner Brothers hub without 2012 is a different page. Only the overlap is $345,493.

Outside $345,493: PACs, unitemized, awards

Outside $345,493: unitemized individual gifts, independent expenditures, PAC spending, and any federal award table. Inside $345,493: itemized individual receipts matching WARNER BROTHERS in cycle 2012.

The page is studio employer text as stored, not a Warner Bros. PAC, a motion-picture NAICS rollup, or Warner Bros. with a period as a sibling spelling. Naming those exclusions keeps the join from being read as a company political budget. Self-reported employer text splits across spellings. WARNER BROTHERS is the key used here. Related titles and legal names are other keys and are not added into $345,493 or $4,613,693.

Snapshot versus live overlay

JSON copy is written once from a packet. Hubs can refresh. If Warner Brothers 2012 on the site shows a different total than $345,493, use the live overlay and FEC.gov. The canonical path for this explanation is the ties URL in the packet.

The body facts remain: WARNER BROTHERS × 2012 = $345,493, 147 contributions, 30 donors, 7.5% of $4,613,693. No other dollars are authorized. Use All FEC ties to find other two-dimension pages. Use Warner Brothers 2012 for rows. This prose stays inside packet facts: $345,493, 147, 30, 7.5% of $4,613,693. Restating the join without new numbers: Warner Brothers in 2012 is $345,493 from 147 itemized individual contributions and 30 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $4,613,693 across cycles, so 2012 is about 7.5% and other windows hold $4,268,200 (92.5%). The grouping is studio employer text as stored, not a Warner Bros. PAC, a motion-picture NAICS rollup, or Warner Bros. with a period as a sibling spelling. 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 $2,350; mean per donor about $11,516; about 4.9 contributions per donor. Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The two-year FEC window tagged 2012 can include receipts from both years. Independent expenditures remain outside $345,493.

Questions

How much did Warner Brothers donors give in 2012?

$345,493 is the itemized-individual total for WARNER BROTHERS in 2012. Volume: 147 contributions, 30 donors. Source FEC.gov. PAC spending and unitemized gifts are outside the cell. FEC.gov is the source for $345,493, 147 contributions, and 30 donors in the Warner Brothers × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $4,613,693.

What share of Warner Brothers FEC money is 2012?

2012 holds $345,493 of the $4,613,693 stored for Warner Brothers, roughly 7.5%. The leftover $4,268,200 is other windows on the Warner Brothers hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $345,493, 147 contributions, and 30 donors in the Warner Brothers × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $4,613,693.

Does this include only Warner Brothers employees?

The grouping is studio employer text as stored, not a verified roster. 147 itemized lines from 30 donors produced $345,493 in 2012. Employment status is not a field in this aggregate. FEC.gov is the source for $345,493, 147 contributions, and 30 donors in the Warner Brothers × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $4,613,693.

Where is the overlay for the Warner Brothers 2012 join?

Use the four packet hrefs: Warner Brothers 2012, Warner Brothers, 2012 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Live overlay rows sit on the first of those. This file explains $345,493 as the join. FEC.gov is the source for $345,493, 147 contributions, and 30 donors in the Warner Brothers × 2012 cell. The lifetime grouping total stored for this string is $4,613,693.