BUILDER as FEC employer text: $16.8 million

A trade word, not a Census construction survey

FEC forms do not apply NAICS 236 for residential building construction. They store whatever the filer typed. BUILDER is that word. The $16,832,191 total is itemized individual gifts whose grouped employer text matches it. It is not housing starts, not a home-builder association PAC, and not every person who works on a job site.

People who typed CONTRACTOR, DEVELOPER, REAL ESTATE, or a company legal name sit in other rows. A custom-home principal who wrote the LLC name instead of BUILDER is not in these 1,110 donors.

1,110 donors and 41,015 lines

1,110 unique donors produced 41,015 BUILDER contribution lines totaling $16,832,191. That is on the order of 37 itemized receipts per person — a repeat-heavy pattern. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a split between residential and commercial work.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are outside the $16,832,191. Follow recipient committees on the donor table for office and party.

Construction siblings

CONTRACTOR, DEVELOPER, REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER, ARCHITECT, and REAL ESTATE are separate keys. Combining them with BUILDER would mix stored strings. This page stays at $16,832,191 for BUILDER only.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside the word — owner, president, self — as typed. SELF-EMPLOYED and BUSINESS OWNER also capture people in the trades who never wrote BUILDER.

Donor table

The BUILDER donor table lists disclosed names and amounts. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not attach a zoning vote, a HUD loan, or a motive to that line. The FEC field is self-reported text, not a contractor license file.

Repeat names are expected among 41,015 lines from 1,110 people. Former builders who still type the word share the string with current principals. LobbyVault does not certify active licenses from the employer box.

BUILDER’s 41,015 lines from 1,110 donors totaling $16,832,191 sit beside CONTRACTOR, DEVELOPER, REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER, ARCHITECT, and REAL ESTATE as separate trade and sector words. SELF-EMPLOYED and BUSINESS OWNER still hold principals who never wrote BUILDER. Unitemized gifts and association PAC filings that lack this employer string stay out. The donor table does not certify contractor licenses. Occupation pages show titles beside BUILDER. A later receipt that uses an LLC name leaves this row. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, self-reported form text, not NAICS construction.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $16,832,191, 41,015 contributions, 1,110 donors, top employer BUILDER. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS.

Compare CONTRACTOR and DEVELOPER on the industry index. Use occupation pages for job titles stored next to BUILDER. State-level construction PACs are other documents.

Keep BUILDER’s $16,832,191, 41,015 contributions, and 1,110 donors separate from CONTRACTOR and DEVELOPER. Unitemized gifts remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside BUILDER. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source. The ranking is employer/occupation self-reports, not a construction-sector NAICS table and not a license file.

Trade-word coverage versus contractor and developer rows

BUILDER’s $16,832,191 from 1,110 donors and 41,015 lines is the occupation-style word as typed, not NAICS residential construction and not housing starts. CONTRACTOR, DEVELOPER, REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER, ARCHITECT, and REAL ESTATE are separate keys already on the industry index. SELF-EMPLOYED and BUSINESS OWNER capture tradespeople who wrote a status phrase instead of BUILDER. A custom-home principal who listed an LLC name is in that firm row, not necessarily in the 1,110.

The 41,015 lines imply on the order of 37 itemized receipts per unique donor. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted from the $16,832,191. Home-builder association PAC filings are other documents unless an individual receipt carries this employer string. LobbyVault does not publish a split between residential and commercial work because the packet does not.

The donor table lists disclosed names and committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not a contractor license or a zoning vote. Former builders who still type the word share the string with current principals. Occupation pages show titles beside BUILDER. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault, $16,832,191, 41,015 contributions, 1,110 donors. Industry labels are FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS.

Questions

How much have BUILDER-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $16,832,191 to the BUILDER employer string, from 41,015 contributions and 1,110 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a NAICS construction total and not a home-builder PAC. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Is BUILDER the same as CONTRACTOR or DEVELOPER?

No. CONTRACTOR, DEVELOPER, and REAL ESTATE DEVELOPER are separate grouped strings with their own pages. A receipt stamped BUILDER is counted only in the $16,832,191 here. LobbyVault does not merge trade words into one construction industry. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Does this include every construction worker who donated?

No. Only itemized federal receipts whose employer text grouped to BUILDER are in the total. People who wrote a company name, CONTRACTOR, or SELF-EMPLOYED are elsewhere. The 1,110 donor count is unique contributors in this string, not a BLS construction headcount.

Why are there 41,015 contributions from 1,110 donors?

Each itemized gift is a line. Repeat donations from the same 1,110 people produce the 41,015 receipt count. Recurring itemized programs raise that ratio. The FEC field is transactional, not a once-per-person census. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.