What administration donors give in federal races

A vague noun under $5.0M

$5,029,336 is the occupation-level dollar total. 25,959 is the itemization count. 1,039 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $194 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $4,841 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 25 itemizations per donor record.

25,959 lines from 1,039 records is a mid-to-high frequency pattern. The per-line mean of about $194 sits between small-check support titles and larger professional means in this harvest band. Those means are arithmetic, not medians.

The packet has no gift-size distribution, no school-versus-hospital flag, and no party split. ADMINISTRATION can describe school administration, hospital administration, or a catch-all office role. The occupation column does not say which.

Administration is not administrator

ADMINISTRATOR, ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT, and SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION — if those strings exist as separate keys — are not rolled into this total unless the bulk extract normalized them to ADMINISTRATION. This page cites only $5,029,336, 25,959 contributions, and 1,039 donors.

FEC Form 3 and Form 3X collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of administrative grades. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals ADMINISTRATION after indexing.

What 1,039 donor records cannot disambiguate

1,039 donor records used ADMINISTRATION on at least one matching itemization. That is not a census of working administrators. Retired staff, people who abbreviated a longer title to ADMINISTRATION, and forms filled with a spouse’s job can appear. Address variants can split one human into more than one donor record.

A person who listed ADMINISTRATION on some gifts and ADMINISTRATOR on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction. The 25-line repeat rate is a property of matching text, not proof that 1,039 unique people each gave 25 times.

Keep employer industry tables separate

Industry pages group employer-side categories. An administration donor at a university and one at a clinic share this occupation string if they typed ADMINISTRATION. Adding $5,029,336 to an education or health industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the ADMINISTRATION occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to neighboring labels. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $5,029,336.

How to cite ADMINISTRATION

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: ADMINISTRATION itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,029,336 on 25,959 contributions from 1,039 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money and that ADMINISTRATION is one-word free text. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules published on FEC.gov. The facts do not encode party or workplace. Recipient committees are a different join. Compact millions ($5.0M) are the same headline amount as $5,029,336, rounded to one decimal place.

ADMINISTRATION as undifferentiated office text

ADMINISTRATION in this extract is $5,029,336 on 25,959 itemizations from 1,039 donor records, or $5.0M in compact millions. Those dollars are itemized activity on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $194 per contribution and about $4,841 per donor record, with roughly 25 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. ADMINISTRATOR and ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to ADMINISTRATION. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $5,029,336. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals ADMINISTRATION, dollars equal $5,029,336, contributions equal 25,959, donors equal 1,039. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the shape of ADMINISTRATION. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have administration donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list ADMINISTRATION sum to $5,029,336, or $5.0M, across 25,959 contributions and 1,039 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Are administrators included in ADMINISTRATION?

Only if they typed ADMINISTRATION. ADMINISTRATOR is a separate occupation string unless the bulk extract normalized it here. This page covers ADMINISTRATION: $5,029,336, 25,959 contributions, and 1,039 donors. Occupation is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data.

What kind of administration is this?

The FEC record does not say. ADMINISTRATION is one-word free text that can describe many workplaces. Treat the 1,039 donor records as a count of matching text, not a job-classification roster. The indexed sum remains $5,029,336. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts never enter this total.

Where do I review individual administration gifts?

The ADMINISTRATION occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Verify amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $5,029,336. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Industry pages group employers, not this occupation string.