What CFO donors give in federal races

Scale of the CFO abbreviation

$36,233,003, 78,219 itemizations, and 6,214 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $463. Mean dollars per donor record is about $5,831. Repeat giving is about 13 itemizations per donor record.

Those means sit in the middle of professional-title strings in this extract: heavier per line than ACCOUNTANT, lighter than concentrated dual-executive keys.

The packet has no median. A few large itemizations can lift the average while most lines remain smaller.

Three letters are not a controller roster

The FEC record does not verify that the donor is a sitting chief financial officer. Private-company finance heads, nonprofit treasurers, retirees, and people using the abbreviation loosely can all appear. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary.

This page cites only $36,233,003, 78,219 contributions, and 6,214 donors. Neighboring titles such as ACCOUNTANT, CPA, and EXECUTIVE remain other keys.

Donor records and dual titles

6,214 donor records used CFO on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed CFO on some gifts and EXECUTIVE on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party from the abbreviation.

Industry tables are a different cut

Industry pages group employers. A CFO in banking and a CFO in manufacturing share this occupation string if they typed CFO. Adding $36,233,003 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the CFO occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the abbreviation next to other finance and executive titles.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals CFO, dollars equal $36,233,003, contributions equal 78,219, donors equal 6,214, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Quote the three facts together so the mid-range mean is visible next to the headline dollars.

Reading the CFO abbreviation next to spelled-out ranks

CFO in this extract is $36,233,003 on 78,219 itemizations from 6,214 donor records, or $36.2 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. Finance staff who type controller, treasurer, or chief financial officer in full may sit on other occupation pages. Only the three-letter key is in $36,233,003. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a NAICS industry code and not a licensing roster.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $463 per contribution and about $5,831 per donor record, with roughly 13 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Neighboring strings such as ACCOUNTANT, CPA, and EXECUTIVE remain other occupation pages unless the bulk extract normalized them to CFO. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 6,214 donor records on 78,219 lines is a mid-pool executive abbreviation, not a public-company finance census.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $36,233,003. A person who listed CFO on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines, because occupation is stored per transaction. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals CFO, dollars equal $36,233,003, contributions equal 78,219, donors equal 6,214. 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 ($36.2 million) are the same headline amount as $36,233,003, 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 whether CFO is a high-volume stack, a concentrated pool, or a high-repeat status label. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have CFO-occupation donors given in FEC data?

The CFO occupation string is attached to $36,233,003 across 78,219 contributions and 6,214 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of sitting chief financial officers. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does CFO include spelled-out chief financial officer?

Only if the bulk extract normalized that phrase to CFO. Otherwise the spelled-out title is a separate key. This page covers CFO: $36,233,003, 78,219 contributions, and 6,214 donors. Check the occupations index for neighboring strings. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

What is the average CFO contribution?

Dividing $36,233,003 by 78,219 itemizations yields about $463 per contribution. Dividing by 6,214 donors yields about $5,831 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing CFO prove the donor ran a public-company finance office?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify corporate form. Private-company and nonprofit finance titles can appear. Quote 78,219 contributions and 6,214 donor records with the dollars. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.