Direct answer · aggregated individuals
How much did people reporting Microsoft as their employer give?
$4,405,174.00 in net current itemized contributions across the published aggregate.
This amount belongs to individuals in FEC filings—not to Microsoft. It does not show employer control, reimbursement, endorsement, or a corporate contribution.
Source: Federal Election Commission · privacy threshold applied · names and addresses not published.
Net itemized amount$4,405,174
Reported contributors3,625
Recipient committees462
Category 1 · individuals
Recipient committees for reported-employer giving
What this category meansEach row aggregates people who typed this employer into an itemized contribution record. Only recipient groups meeting the distinct-contributor threshold appear.
ACTBLUE392 distinct reported contributors · 993 transactions $1,054,551.00WINRED23 distinct reported contributors · 59 transactions $182,645.00NRSC5 distinct reported contributors · 9 transactions $104,029.00DCCC30 distinct reported contributors · 145 transactions $63,798.00DSCC26 distinct reported contributors · 139 transactions $61,530.00Categories 2 and 3 · legally separate activity
FEC-connected committee activity
These committees are shown only because their FEC registration names Microsoft as the connected organization after conservative exact-name normalization. Committee contributions and independent expenditures remain separate from the individual aggregate above.
Direct committee contributions$477,000.00217 transactions
Coordinated party spending$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to support$0.000 transactions
Independent spending to oppose$0.000 transactions
Method & privacy
Useful aggregation without a donor directory.
Five-person minimumAn employer/recipient cell is suppressed unless it contains at least 5 distinct reported contributors.
No individual identitiesElection.org does not publish contributor names or addresses from this dataset. Internal temporary hashes enforce the threshold and are not shipped.
Amendment-aware30,857,891 superseded versions were removed using stable committee, report, and transaction identifiers.
Conservative namesEmployer spellings are normalized for punctuation and a small explicit alias list. Election.org does not guess corporate family trees or employment relationships.
The FEC individual-contribution file is a subset of itemized contributions, generally triggered once cycle-to-date or calendar-year-to-date giving exceeds $200. Memo entries remain included under the FEC bulk-file instructions. Net totals may include signed corrections, refunds, and reattributions.
