What business development donors give in federal races

Headline receipts on a function string

$6,454,275 is the occupation-level dollar total. 21,484 is the itemization count. 1,242 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $300 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $5,197 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 17 itemizations per donor record. Twenty-one thousand-plus lines from 1,242 donor records points to frequent itemization rather than a handful of large checks.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no cycle series. A few large lines can lift $300 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

A two-word function is a coarse bucket. Business-development directors, BD representatives, and partnership leads can all land here—or on longer strings that never join this total.

Why BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT is a noisy label

Some donors write BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT; others write BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER or BD. FEC bulk data keeps each spelling. LobbyVault does not merge them.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down of job titles and no license check. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT after indexing. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, SALES, and BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT.

What 1,242 donor records can and cannot show

1,242 donor records used BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT on at least one matching itemization. It is not a count of professional BD staff. The 1,242 figure is the distinct-record count inside this function string only.

A person who listed BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. Address variants can also split one human into more than one donor record.

Occupation versus employer-sector pages

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. A BD staffer at a software firm and one at a hospital vendor may share this occupation string while sitting in different industry buckets. Adding $6,454,275 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to neighboring labels. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $6,454,275.

How to cite the business development key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $6,454,275 on 21,484 contributions from 1,242 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter the total.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. The phrase is not a cleaned “business development industry” total.

Treating BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT as department language

BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT in this extract is $6,454,275 on 21,484 itemizations from 1,242 donor records, or $6.5 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. 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. Function names on Schedule A are not Standard Occupational Classification codes. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a verified roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $300 per contribution and about $5,197 per donor record, with roughly 17 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT MANAGER, SALES, and BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT. 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 $6,454,275. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT, dollars equal $6,454,275, contributions equal 21,484, donors equal 1,242. 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. Compact millions ($6.5 million) are the same headline amount as $6,454,275, rounded to one decimal place. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the shape of BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have business development donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT sum to $6,454,275 across 21,484 contributions and 1,242 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The total is an exact-string occupation filter. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is business development a standardized FEC job code?

No. Occupation is free text. BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT itemizations sum to $6,454,275 from 21,484 contributions and 1,242 donor records. Related titles with extra words are not included. The occupation field is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data. Unitemized gifts never carry an occupation code.

Does this include business development managers?

Only if the occupation field is exactly BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT. A donor listed as business development manager is a different key. This page is $6,454,275, 21,484 lines, and 1,242 donors. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are outside this total.

How do I see who received the money?

The BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Confirm any committee on FEC.gov. This packet does not include a recipient ranking. The occupation total remains $6,454,275. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.