ARCHITECT on FEC filings: $28.7M itemized

A licensed-trade word that software also uses

Building architects and IT architects can type ARCHITECT. FEC text has no license flag. The $28.7M total is the mixed word. People who typed a firm (Gensler, a local studio) or ENGINEER are in other rows.

NAICS 5413 is not applied. LobbyVault does not recode this title into that sector.

1,501 donors and 76,596 lines

1,501 donors produced 76,596 ARCHITECT contribution lines totaling $28.7M. Unique-donor count is close to DEVELOPER and WRITER on those other title pages. Repeat giving explains receipts above unique donors.

Party share is not on this industry headline. AIA or firm PACs are committees, not this individual-label rollup.

ENGINEER, CONTRACTOR, DEVELOPER

Those neighboring strings describe related built-environment and tech jobs. None is inside $28.7M. A person can appear as ARCHITECT one year and ENGINEER the next.

Occupation pages show title-versus-employer splits when the firm name is in the employer box. State architectural boards keep licensee lists that this FEC row does not copy. A person can be unlicensed as a building architect and still type ARCHITECT because they work in software. The $28.7M figure does not sort those cases. Readers who need a license check must leave LobbyVault for the board site, then return to the 1,501-donor table only for the political-money question.

Donor table

The ARCHITECT donor table lists disclosed names and amounts. A large gift is a public contribution. It is not evidence about a public building or a software stack. LobbyVault does not infer which kind of architect the donor is.

Read the employer field on the line before writing a sector story. Studio letterhead on a contribution is a different industry key than the generic title. If the stored employer is a firm, the receipt may never appear among the 76,596 ARCHITECT lines. That is why firm-name pages and this title page should be read as a pair, not as duplicates.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $28.7M, 76,596 contributions, 1,501 donors, top employer ARCHITECT. Unitemized and non-federal activity are omitted.

Follow recipient committees from the table. Public-building and campus projects generate political questions that this rollup does not answer. The itemized gift is the only fact on the line. Recipient committees are listed on the donor table; project names are not. FEC.gov via LobbyVault remains the source for the $28.7M string total.

Licensure, software titles, and firm names

Building-architect licensure is not in the FEC field. Software architects type the same word. The $28.7M total, 76,596 contribution lines, and 1,501 donors mix those jobs. Firm names, ENGINEER, CONTRACTOR, and DEVELOPER pull related people into other rows. Unitemized gifts, state races, and AIA PACs are omitted. LobbyVault does not apply NAICS 5413.

Occupation pages show ARCHITECT as occupation with a studio employer — harvest may send the line to the studio. Open the ARCHITECT donor table and read employer text before assigning a built-environment versus IT story. The title is self-reported FEC text, not a NAICS industry, from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Searchers comparing ARCHITECT to ENGINEER should keep the two donor tables separate. Those are different typed words, not a ranking of which trade gives more after recoding. Do not merge them in a citation without saying so. Readers who arrived from a firm-name search should still open this ARCHITECT title table, because some principals type the credential instead of the studio. The reverse is also true: a studio letterhead search will miss people who only typed ARCHITECT. Together with ENGINEER and DEVELOPER, these title rows sketch the built-environment and IT-title spillover that FEC free text creates. None of those neighboring totals is inside $28.7M. The 76,596 contribution lines on this page remain the ARCHITECT string as FEC.gov stored it and as LobbyVault indexed it. Unitemized gifts, state-only filings, and AIA committee disbursements stay outside that line count. If a citation needs a licensed-architect subset, the license board is the next stop; this rollup will not become that subset. Occupation pages remain the companion view when employer is a studio and occupation is ARCHITECT, because harvest grouping may have sent those mixed lines to the studio key instead of the 1,501-donor title cluster.

Questions

How much have ARCHITECT donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $28.7M to the ARCHITECT FEC string, from 76,596 contributions and 1,501 donors. Firm names, ENGINEER, and CONTRACTOR are separate. The label is not a NAICS architectural-services total. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Does this include software architects?

If they typed ARCHITECT, yes — the FEC string does not distinguish building design from IT. The $28.7M total is the mixed word. Check employer text on each receipt to classify a person. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Is ARCHITECT merged with ENGINEER?

No. They are different free-text values. DEVELOPER and CONTRACTOR are also separate rows. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. This answer uses only the packet totals for that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov, with no NAICS overlay applied.

How many unique architect donors are listed?

The rollup counts 1,501 donors and 76,596 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a license-board census. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.