Wells Fargo political money — 2014 cycle

The Wells Fargo × 2014 join

LobbyVault stores FEC employer/industry strings separately from election cycles. Crossing them for Wells Fargo and 2014 yields $304,792. That is 319 itemized lines and 159 unique donors. The figure is not a committee’s reported disbursement. FEC.gov remains the underlying source.

Bank employer text can collide with similar form text. This join uses the exact grouping WELLS FARGO. Advisors, Bank, and holding-company suffixes are other employer keys. This join is the stored string WELLS FARGO in the 2014 window. Neighboring stored labels include WELLS FARGO BANK, WELLS FARGO & CO, WFC, and WELLS FARGO ADVISORS. LobbyVault does not merge those strings into $304,792. The 159 donor identities are contributor keys, not a headcount of a workforce.

Dropping either filter changes the story. Drop the year and you see $5,062,933. Drop the string and you see the entire 2014 cycle. This page holds both filters at once.

Lifetime Wells Fargo money versus 2014

A lifetime figure of $5,062,933 can swallow a single cycle if the join is skipped. 2014 is $304,792, about 6.0%. The leftover $4,758,141 belongs on other cycle pages for the same string, not in this cell.

$5,062,933 is still only this exact grouping. It is not every related company name and not a sector total. 6.0% describes 2014 inside Wells Fargo, nothing else. $5,062,933 is the running sum for exact string WELLS FARGO. 2014 contributes $304,792 (6.0%); the complement is $4,758,141 (94.0%). Changing one character in the employer field would move money to another grouping and change both the numerator and the denominator.

Means on $304,792

Packet arithmetic: $304,792 ÷ 319 ≈ $955 per contribution; $304,792 ÷ 159 ≈ $1,917 per donor; 319 ÷ 159 ≈ 2.0 contributions per donor. None of those figures is a median, a mode, or a party breakdown.

The Commission’s itemized-individual universe excludes unitemized gifts. Adding those would change the means. This join does not add them. 159 unique donors produced 319 itemized receipts. The implied 2.0 contributions per donor is a mean. This JSON file does not name those donors. The overlay is the row store.

What the 2014 election cycle hub still holds

Remove Wells Fargo and the 2014 cycle still contains every other grouping. This file does not add those dollars. Keep both keys if the question is WELLS FARGO in 2014: $304,792, 319 contributions, 159 donors.

Presidential-year and midterm-year cycles both use the same two-year tagging rule. 2014 is a midterm even-year window on FEC.gov. This packet does not classify 2014 beyond that calendar label and the year number in the facts. The 2014 election cycle hub still contains every other employer string. This tie keeps Wells Fargo on. Without a cycle-wide total in the facts, $304,792 cannot be turned into a percent of national 2014 itemized giving.

FEC gifts are not federal awards

Wells Fargo entities can appear in federal contracting files. USAspending obligations are not these campaign gifts. This join does not claim that $304,792 funded federal work, or that federal work funded the gifts. Different datasets, same possible name collision.

Unitemized contributions never enter 319 or $304,792. Committee-to-committee transfers and independent expenditures live elsewhere. Cite FEC.gov for the itemized-individual join only. Unitemized individual gifts never enter $304,792. Independent expenditures and PAC disbursements are other FEC tables. USAspending is a different database. Sharing a company-like string does not merge those ledgers.

A citation template for this join

Suggested citation: FEC.gov individual contribution aggregates, employer/industry grouping WELLS FARGO, election cycle 2014, $304,792, 319 contributions, 159 donors (6.0% of $5,062,933 stored for the string).

Do not append NAICS codes, USAspending dollars, or named donors. Those facts are not in the packet. If a later overlay revises $304,792, the overlay controls. Internal links are the navigation: Wells Fargo 2014 for the overlay, Wells Fargo for other years, 2014 election cycle for other strings, All FEC ties for other joins. The canonical explanation path is the ties URL in the packet. Restating the join without new numbers: Wells Fargo in 2014 is $304,792 from 319 itemized individual contributions and 159 unique donors on FEC.gov. The same string stores $5,062,933 across cycles, so 2014 is about 6.0% and other windows hold $4,758,141 (94.0%). The grouping is bank employer text, not a Wells Fargo PAC, WELLS FARGO BANK as a longer sibling, or a commercial-banking NAICS rollup.

Questions

How much did Wells Fargo donors give in 2014?

$304,792 is the itemized-individual total for WELLS FARGO in 2014. Volume: 319 contributions, 159 donors. Source FEC.gov. PAC spending and unitemized gifts are outside the cell. FEC.gov is the source for $304,792, 319 contributions, and 159 donors in the Wells Fargo × 2014 cell.

What share of Wells Fargo FEC money is 2014?

2014 holds $304,792 of the $5,062,933 stored for Wells Fargo, roughly 6.0%. The leftover $4,758,141 is other windows on the Wells Fargo hub, not this join. FEC.gov is the source for $304,792, 319 contributions, and 159 donors in the Wells Fargo × 2014 cell.

Does this include only Wells Fargo employees?

The grouping is bank employer text, not a verified roster. 319 itemized lines from 159 donors produced $304,792 in 2014. Employment status is not a field in this aggregate. FEC.gov is the source for $304,792, 319 contributions, and 159 donors in the Wells Fargo × 2014 cell.

Where is the overlay for the Wells Fargo 2014 join?

Use the four packet hrefs: Wells Fargo 2014, Wells Fargo, 2014 election cycle, and All FEC ties. Live overlay rows sit on the first of those. This file explains $304,792 as the join. FEC.gov is the source for $304,792, 319 contributions, and 159 donors in the Wells Fargo × 2014 cell.