What board-member donors give in federal races

A thin donor pool with a four-figure mean

$8,057,226, 7,878 itemizations, and 873 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $1,023. Mean dollars per donor record are about $9,229. Repeat giving is about 9 itemizations per donor record.

7,878 lines from 873 records is a compact governance-title stack. The $1,023 per-line mean sits well above many clinical and clerical occupation keys in this extract. Arithmetic means are not medians; a handful of large itemizations can lift the average.

873 donor records is a small pool relative to many clinical titles in the same extract. Repeat giving of about 9 itemizations per record is moderate, not a high-frequency PAC-style stack. The packet has no public-versus-private board split, no compensation field, and no party flag, so $8,057,226 cannot be read as a corporate-governance census.

BOARD MEMBER is donor-typed text, not a director census

The FEC record does not verify that the donor sits on a public-company, nonprofit, or cooperative board. Advisory-board volunteers, LLC managers, and retirees can all type BOARD MEMBER. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled officer vocabulary.

This page cites only $8,057,226, 7,878 contributions, and 873 donors. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD, MEMBER, and DIRECTOR remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them. Combining those strings without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC occupation to a homemade cluster.

How donor records split on this title

873 donor records used BOARD MEMBER on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed BOARD MEMBER on some gifts and OWNER or RETIRED on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party, employer type, or board compensation from the two-word string. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $8,057,226.

Committees receiving these itemizations are not named in the packet. The 7,878 lines are occupation-side totals only. Refunds, redesignations, and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Do not treat $8,057,226 as net of refunds unless a later extract says so.

Industry pages group employers, not this title

Industry pages group employer-side categories. A board member at a bank and a board member at a hospital share this occupation string if they typed BOARD MEMBER. Adding $8,057,226 to an industry total double-counts the same itemized dollars.

Open the BOARD MEMBER occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the string next to other governance titles.

Citation language for researchers

A usable sentence is: occupation equals BOARD MEMBER, dollars equal $8,057,226, contributions equal 7,878, donors equal 873, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Quote the three facts together so the four-figure mean is visible next to the headline dollars. Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules.

Reading BOARD MEMBER as a governance key

BOARD MEMBER in this extract is $8,057,226 on 7,878 itemizations from 873 donor records, or $8.1 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. People who type DIRECTOR, TRUSTEE, or CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact BOARD MEMBER key is in $8,057,226.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $1,023 per contribution and about $9,229 per donor record, with roughly 9 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no public-versus-private split, and no party field. 873 donor records on 7,878 lines is a low-volume, high-mean title pool, not a census of sitting directors.

Industry pages should not be added to $8,057,226. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals BOARD MEMBER, dollars equal $8,057,226, contributions equal 7,878, donors equal 873.

BOARD MEMBER and MEMBER look similar in English and are stored as different occupation keys. BOARD MEMBER is $8,057,226 on 7,878 lines from 873 records; MEMBER is a separate page with its own facts. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD is likewise a different string. Cite each key on its own line if a researcher wants a governance cluster.

Questions

How much have board-member donors given in FEC data?

The BOARD MEMBER occupation string is attached to $8,057,226 across 7,878 contributions and 873 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of sitting directors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does BOARD MEMBER include chairman of the board?

Only if those donors typed BOARD MEMBER. CHAIRMAN OF THE BOARD is a separate key unless the extract merged them. This page covers BOARD MEMBER: $8,057,226, 7,878 contributions, and 873 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average board-member contribution?

Dividing $8,057,226 by 7,878 itemizations yields about $1,023 per contribution. Dividing by 873 donors yields about $9,229 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 9 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing board member prove a corporate directorship?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify board seats or compensation. Quote 7,878 contributions and 873 donor records with the $8,057,226 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.