What art dealer donors give in federal races

A small dealer pool under $4.7M

$4,710,570 is the occupation-level dollar total. 12,388 is the itemization count. 534 is the donor-record count. Mean contribution size is about $380. Mean dollars per donor record are about $8,821. Repeat giving is about 23 itemizations per donor record.

534 donor records is a narrower pool than many professional-title strings with similar dollars. The per-donor mean of about $8,821 sits above typical support-staff keys in this harvest band. The line count of 12,388 still shows substantial repeat itemizing.

These means are not typical-check estimates and not a measure of gallery revenue allocated to politics. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no gallery-versus-private-sale flag, and no party split.

Art dealer is not artist and not dealer

ARTIST, GALLERIST, and DEALER — if those strings exist as separate keys — are not rolled into this total unless the bulk extract normalized them to ART DEALER. This page cites only $4,710,570, 12,388 contributions, and 534 donors.

The FEC does not verify gallery licenses, auction-house employment, or art-fair credentials. Private dealers, gallery owners who typed ART DEALER, and people using the phrase as a catch-all can all appear. Occupation is the donor’s word on that line, published as reported on FEC.gov.

What the dollars do not measure

$4,710,570 is not an art-market PAC total and not auction volume. Industry pages group employers. A freelance art dealer and a gallery staff dealer share this occupation string if they typed ART DEALER. Adding occupation dollars to a retail or arts industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations.

Party is not stored in the occupation column. Recipient committees are a different join. Open the ART DEALER occupation page for recipient rows. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $4.7M.

Reading 534 donor records without a dealer roster

534 donor records used ART DEALER on at least one matching itemization. That is not a census of working dealers. Retired dealers, collectors who typed the title, and spouses listed with a partner’s occupation can appear. Address variants can split one person across donor records.

A contributor who listed ART DEALER on some gifts and DEALER on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction. The 23-line repeat rate is a property of matching text.

How to cite ART DEALER on FEC schedules

A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals ART DEALER, dollars equal $4,710,570, contributions equal 12,388, donors equal 534. Name FEC Form 3/3X itemizations as the source. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Use the occupations index to compare ART DEALER with ARTIST without merging them. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $4,710,570. Compact millions ($4.7M) match $4,710,570 rounded to one decimal place.

ART DEALER as concentrated commerce text

ART DEALER in this extract is $4,710,570 on 12,388 itemizations from 534 donor records, or $4.7M 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 $380 per contribution and about $8,821 per donor record, with roughly 23 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. ARTIST and DEALER remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to ART DEALER. 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 $4,710,570. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals ART DEALER, dollars equal $4,710,570, contributions equal 12,388, donors equal 534. 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 concentrated shape of ART DEALER. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have art dealer donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list ART DEALER sum to $4,710,570, or $4.7M, across 12,388 contributions and 534 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The figure is an occupation-string total, not a count of working dealers. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Are artists included in the art dealer total?

No. ARTIST is a separate occupation string. This page covers ART DEALER only: $4,710,570, 12,388 contributions, and 534 donors. Mixing them would invent a combined art total the packet does not contain. Occupation is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data.

Does listing ART DEALER prove a gallery license?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify a gallery filing. Quote 12,388 contributions and 534 donor records with the dollars. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Where can I see individual art dealer contributions?

The ART DEALER occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Verify amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $4,710,570. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Industry pages group employers, not this occupation string. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.