CHAIRMAN occupation money in FEC itemizations

Low volume, high dollars per itemization

35,525 contributions is a thin stack next to occupations that post hundreds of thousands of lines. Against $98,545,716, the mean is about $2,774 per contribution. Against 6,317 donors, the mean is about $15,600 per donor record. About 6 contributions per donor is a modest repeat rate.

That shape is concentration: fewer records, larger average amounts. It is not proof that every chairman writes a large check. Means move with tails. The packet has no median or top-gift list.

Chairwoman, chair, and board chair are other strings if that is what the donor wrote. This page is the CHAIRMAN match only.

Board title versus political party chair

In English, chairman can mean a corporate board chair or a party committee chair. The FEC occupation field does not classify which. Employer text, when present, is the better clue and is not one of this packet’s three facts.

Best-efforts collection records the donor’s word. There is no board-secretary verification. Retired chairs and honorary chairs may still type CHAIRMAN.

Donor records as a small pool

6,317 donor records is among the smaller pools in this harvest. It is not a census of U.S. board chairs. Name variants can split people; shared titles can make unrelated rows look alike.

CEO, PRESIDENT, and FOUNDER are neighboring senior titles with separate facts. A person who listed CHAIRMAN on some gifts and CEO on others appears in both occupation totals for those lines. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $98.5 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

Using the hub

Cite $98,545,716, 35,525 contributions, and 6,317 donors. Open the CHAIRMAN occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to compare other senior titles without merging them into a single “executives” figure.

Do not assign party from the occupation word. Source: Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts are omitted. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $98.5 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

Limits

Harvested facts have no cycle year. Live filters may change displayed sums. Gendered and ungendered chair titles are included only if they normalized to CHAIRMAN. Industry pages will not equal this occupation total.

Researchers comparing occupation keys should keep CHAIRMAN on its own line with its own dollar, contribution, and donor facts. The occupations index is the inventory of neighboring strings. Industry pages remain an employer-side cut and should not be added to this occupation total. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so $98.5 million is itemized activity for this string in the loaded extract. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $98.5 million. That compact figure is the same headline amount as the full dollar total on this page, rounded to one decimal place in millions.

CHAIRMAN concentration and the board-versus-party ambiguity

CHAIRMAN is $98.5 million on 35,525 itemizations from 6,317 donor records. Mean line size is about $2,774 and mean dollars per donor record are about $15,600, with only about 6 itemizations per donor. That is a low-volume, high-mean key. Chairwoman and chair are included only if they normalized to CHAIRMAN. CEO and PRESIDENT remain separate.

The word can mean a corporate board chair or a party committee chair. The occupation field does not classify which. Employer text is the better clue and is not in this packet. Do not treat 6,317 as a board census. Industry pages will not equal $98,545,716. Cite the three facts as an exact-string total on itemized receipts. CHAIRMAN’s practical use is as a sparse, dollar-heavy key. Six thousand three hundred seventeen donor records and 35,525 itemizations produced $98.5 million. That is not a board directory. It is also not a party-chair directory. Employer text, when present on the live rows, is the only workplace hint in the public record besides the title itself. Keep CEO and PRESIDENT separate.

Questions

How much have CHAIRMAN-occupation donors given?

Occupation CHAIRMAN is attached to $98,545,716 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 35,525 contributions and 6,317 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money, not a board-of-directors registry. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.

Why is the average chairman contribution high?

$98,545,716 on 35,525 itemizations is about $2,774 per contribution, and about $15,600 per donor record. Those are arithmetic means on a small-volume key. The packet does not include a median. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. The live hub may apply cycle filters; this packet is the harvested occupation key.

Does CHAIRMAN mean Republican or Democratic party chair?

Not by itself. The occupation field does not encode party role versus corporate board role. $98,545,716 is money on lines that happen to say CHAIRMAN. The matching contribution count is 35,525 and the matching donor-record count is 6,317. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.

Is chairwoman included?

Only if the occupation text normalized to CHAIRMAN. Other chair titles are separate strings unless they matched this key. This page cites 6,317 donors on the CHAIRMAN match. The matching contribution count is 35,525 and the matching donor-record count is 6,317. Those three numbers are occupation-string totals from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault, not a licensed roster and not a party split.