AUTO DEALER as FEC employer text: $7.7 million

A trade title instead of a storefront name

LobbyVault ranks grouped employer text. Principals often type AUTO DEALER instead of a dealership legal name. The $7,708,506 total is those itemized individual gifts. It is not NADA PAC spending, not new-vehicle unit sales, and not a NAICS 4411 rollup of automobile dealers.

People who typed a named store, FORD, GM, OWNER, BUSINESS OWNER, or SELF-EMPLOYED without this two-word string sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into AUTO DEALER. The FEC field records stored text, not a dealer-license roster.

550 donors and 14,297 lines

550 unique donors produced 14,297 AUTO DEALER contribution lines totaling $7,708,506. That is on the order of 26 itemized receipts per donor. Unique-donor count sits near OIL PRODUCER in this ranking’s neighborhood of trade titles, still as a separate stored string. The packet does not publish a mean gift as its own FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Independent expenditures and association PAC filings are outside the $7,708,506 unless an individual receipt itself carries this employer string. Unitemized gifts never appear. Repeat names among 14,297 lines are expected.

OWNER and named automakers stay separate

OWNER, BUSINESS OWNER, named dealerships, and automaker legal names are separate keys. Combining them with AUTO DEALER would invent a motor-vehicle recode. This page stays at $7,708,506 for the two-word title only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside AUTO DEALER — owner, president, dealer — as typed. A donor who listed a specific storefront legal name is not in these 550 people unless the receipt grouped to AUTO DEALER.

Donor table without franchise inference

The AUTO DEALER donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a franchise agreement, a right-to-repair bill, or a motive to that line. Unit-sales tables are a different dataset.

Follow committees on the table for party and office. This guide does not assign a partisan percentage to the title. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts only.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $7,708,506, 14,297 contributions, 550 donors, top employer AUTO DEALER. Labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Unitemized gifts, state races, and association PACs are omitted.

Compare OWNER, BUSINESS OWNER, and OIL PRODUCER on the industry index. Occupation breakdowns show titles beside AUTO DEALER. Cite $7,708,506 from FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS automobile-dealer table.

Named stores, automakers, and OWNER stay out

AUTO DEALER as a two-word trade title is not a named storefront, not an automaker legal name, and not OWNER or BUSINESS OWNER. Those strings sit on other keys. The $7,708,506 total, 14,297 contribution lines, and 550 donors describe this title only. OIL PRODUCER remains another trade-title row. Association PAC filings stay outside the industry headline.

Unitemized gifts, state races, new-vehicle unit sales, and NAICS 4411 dealer payroll stay outside the $7,708,506. Occupation pages show titles beside AUTO DEALER. Principals who still type the two words remain in the 550. The FEC field is not a dealer-license roster. Repeat names among 14,297 lines are expected.

Open the AUTO DEALER donor table for disclosed names and committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not a franchise or right-to-repair inference. Cite $7,708,506, 14,297 contributions, and 550 donors from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports. Do not add OWNER to this title and call the sum a motor-vehicle industry.

Researchers who want a motor-vehicle recode must list named storefronts, automaker legal names, OWNER, and BUSINESS OWNER as separate additions. The $7,708,506 figure does not absorb those rows. It stays on AUTO DEALER as 550 donors and 14,297 lines. Unit-sales tables are a different dataset. Follow recipient committees on the AUTO DEALER donor table. Party share is not computed on the industry headline. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, self-reported employer text, not NAICS 4411 and not a dealers PAC.

Questions

How much have AUTO DEALER-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $7,708,506 to the AUTO DEALER employer string, from 14,297 contributions and 550 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a dealers PAC and not a NAICS new-car-dealer total. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted from that figure.

Does this include Ford or GM employees?

Only if the receipt grouped to AUTO DEALER. Automaker legal names and named storefronts are other stored strings when filers typed them. OWNER is a separate generic-title key. Figures here are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault.

Is this NADA or manufacturer PAC spending?

No. The $7,708,506 total is individual contributions whose employer text grouped to AUTO DEALER. Association and company PAC filings are other FEC categories. Coverage is itemized federal receipts only. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts only.

How many unique donors listed AUTO DEALER?

The rollup counts 550 donors and 14,297 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count — on the order of 26 itemized receipts per donor. This is not a dealer-license headcount. Coverage is itemized federal receipts only. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.