AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE

A large occupation book, a smaller PAC slice

Dentist is one of the thicker occupation keys in the FEC file. $36,685,531 is that key to every federal committee. Only 12.7% lands on ADA PAC. 87.3% ($32,041,445) went elsewhere: candidate committees, other PACs, party committees, and any recipient that stored DENTIST on the occupation line.

The join is still large in dollars: $4,644,086 across 11,074 receipts, mean $419. A professional-association PAC often shows this shape—many itemized gifts, not a few megadonor lines. Mean remains arithmetic. The packet has no unique-donor count.

Use Dentist for the occupation hub, the ADA PAC committee page for C00000729, All occupations for sibling titles such as orthodontist, and All FEC ties for other occupation-to-committee pages.

Keep Dentist → ADA PAC (C00000729): $4,644,086 in 11,074 itemized receipts. on one sentence and the occupation-wide total on another. All FEC ties is the index for other occupation-to-committee pages. This snapshot does not replace FEC.gov bulk files.

DENTIST as typed, not a dental census

The FEC stores what the contributor or the committee typed. DDS, DMD, dental surgeon, and orthodontist are other keys. They are not folded into $36,685,531. LobbyVault does not recode dental degrees into one profession total.

ADA membership is not a field on Schedule A. A filer can list Dentist and give to ADA PAC without appearing on a membership roster in this dataset. A member can give to a candidate instead and never appear in $4,644,086.

Quote Dentist for the occupation-wide $36,685,531 and quote AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE (C00000729) for the committee overlay. The overlap remains $4,644,086 across 11,074 itemized receipts, 12.7% of the occupation book, mean $419. Remainder $32,041,445 (87.3%) went to other federal committees that stored the same occupation string. All occupations and All FEC ties keep the pair in the index. Itemized individual contributions only; independent expenditures are outside the source note. Later FEC bulk files override this snapshot. Do not add $4,644,086 to $36,685,531. Do not treat 11,074 as unique donors.

Questions

How much have dentists given to ADA PAC?

$4,644,086 in 11,074 itemized individual contributions from the Dentist occupation key to C00000729. That is 12.7% of Dentist’s $36,685,531 occupation-wide total. Other dental occupation strings are separate keys and are not inside these two integers.

Why is ADA PAC only 12.7 percent of dentist FEC money?

Because $36,685,531 counts every federal committee that received the Dentist string. Candidate and party committees, plus other PACs, hold $32,041,445. A trade PAC can be a large dollar join without being the majority of an occupation book.

Is this ADA membership dues?

No. The table is FEC itemized individual contributions with occupation Dentist and recipient C00000729. Dues, state association PACs, and independent expenditures are outside $4,644,086. Membership is not a field on this join. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.

Where should I read the two sides?

Dentist for the $36,685,531 occupation hub. AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION POLITICAL ACTION COMMITTEE for the committee overlay. All occupations and All FEC ties for neighboring keys. This page is only the overlap. Cite FEC.gov itemized individual aggregates; independent expenditures are excluded.