What ARCHITECT donors give in federal races

High volume, modest per-line mean

$31,910,255, 145,938 itemizations, and 6,228 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $219. Mean dollars per donor record is about $5,124. Repeat giving is about 23 itemizations per donor record.

The shape matches other licensed-trade strings that generate many small itemizations. A citation that quotes only $31.9 million hides the 145,938-line stack.

These means are arithmetic. The packet has no median.

Architect is not a NAICS code and not a board list

FEC occupation is free text. Software architects, landscape architects, and licensed building architects can share this string if they typed ARCHITECT. The bulk file does not split those senses. This overlay does not invent that split.

This page cites only $31,910,255, 145,938 contributions, and 6,228 donors. The FEC record does not verify an architecture license.

Donor records versus unique humans

6,228 donor records used ARCHITECT on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed ARCHITECT on some gifts and OWNER on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party from the noun.

Occupation pages versus industry pages

Industry tables group employers. Architects in firms and architects who are principals share this occupation string if they typed ARCHITECT. Adding $31,910,255 to an architectural-services industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations.

Open the ARCHITECT occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to see neighboring design and owner titles as separate keys.

Citation

Quote occupation equals ARCHITECT, dollars equal $31,910,255, contributions equal 145,938, donors equal 6,228, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Keep the line count in the sentence so the modest mean is visible.

Architecture as occupation text, not NAICS 541310

ARCHITECT in this extract is $31,910,255 on 145,938 itemizations from 6,228 donor records, or $31.9 million 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. A Census industry code for architectural services is an employer-side label. ARCHITECT on a contribution line is a contributor-side noun. Adding them double-counts. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a licensing roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $219 per contribution and about $5,124 per donor record, with roughly 23 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Neighboring strings such as OWNER and other design or principal titles remain other occupation pages unless the bulk extract normalized them to ARCHITECT. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 145,938 lines from 6,228 donor records is a licensed-trade volume pattern even when some of those donors are software architects.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $31,910,255. A person who listed ARCHITECT on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines, because occupation is stored per transaction. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals ARCHITECT, dollars equal $31,910,255, contributions equal 145,938, donors equal 6,228. 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. Compact millions ($31.9 million) are the same headline amount as $31,910,255, rounded to one decimal place. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see whether ARCHITECT is a high-volume stack, a concentrated pool, or a high-repeat status label. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Cite ARCHITECT as donor-typed occupation text on FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault: $31,910,255, 145,938 contributions, 6,228 donor records. Do not substitute a licensing-board headcount or an architectural-services industry total.

Questions

How much have ARCHITECT donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list ARCHITECT sum to $31,910,255 across 145,938 contributions and 6,228 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The figure is an occupation-string total, not a licensed-architect census and not a NAICS total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does ARCHITECT mean building architect only?

Not necessarily. Occupation is self-reported free text. Software architects and others can use the same noun. This packet has no specialty split. The matching facts remain $31,910,255, 145,938 contributions, and 6,228 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

What is the average ARCHITECT contribution?

Dividing $31,910,255 by 145,938 itemizations yields about $219 per contribution. Dividing by 6,228 donors yields about $5,124 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 23 lines per donor record. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Can I add ARCHITECT dollars to an industry total?

Not without double-counting. Industry pages group employer categories. Occupation ARCHITECT is a contributor-title filter. Quote 145,938 contributions and 6,228 donor records with the $31,910,255 headline. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.