What community-volunteer occupation donors give in federal races

Fewer lines than VOLUNTEER, a larger mean gift

$9,995,077, 12,698 itemizations, and 1,027 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $787. Mean dollars per donor record are about $9,732. Repeat giving is about 12 itemizations per donor record.

12,698 lines from 1,027 records is a more concentrated status stack than the one-word VOLUNTEER key. The $787 per-line mean is arithmetic, not a typical volunteer stipend redirected to politics.

The packet has no hours-served field, no nonprofit roster, and no median gift. A few large itemizations can dominate the average.

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER is not VOLUNTEER

The FEC record does not verify unpaid community work. Retirees, homemakers, and people using VOLUNTEER alone sit on other keys unless the extract merged them. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary.

This page cites only $9,995,077, 12,698 contributions, and 1,027 donors. VOLUNTEER, RETIRED, and HOMEMAKER remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them.

Donor records and overlapping status strings

1,027 donor records used COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER on some gifts and VOLUNTEER on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

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

Industry pages do not replace this status key

Industry pages group employers. COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER as occupation is status text, not an employer-industry code. Adding $9,995,077 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the phrase next to VOLUNTEER and other status labels.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER, dollars equal $9,995,077, contributions equal 12,698, donors equal 1,027, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

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

Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact beyond $9,995,077, 12,698 contributions, and 1,027 donors. The shorter VOLUNTEER key stays on its own page unless the extract merged it into COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER.

Reading COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER next to VOLUNTEER

COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER in this extract is $9,995,077 on 12,698 itemizations from 1,027 donor records, or $10.0 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. People who type volunteer, retired, or not employed may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER key is in $9,995,077.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $787 per contribution and about $9,732 per donor record, with roughly 12 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Combining COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER with VOLUNTEER without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 1,027 donor records on 12,698 lines is a concentrated status pool, not a volunteer-hours census.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $9,995,077. A person who listed COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER, dollars equal $9,995,077, contributions equal 12,698, donors equal 1,027. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($10.0 million) are the same headline amount as $9,995,077, rounded to one decimal place. Keep 12,698 contributions and 1,027 donor records in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the concentrated two-word status phrase separately from VOLUNTEER. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a volunteer-hours log. A citation that stays inside the packet names COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER, $9,995,077, 12,698, and 1,027 together.

Questions

How much have community-volunteer occupation donors given in FEC data?

The COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER occupation string is attached to $9,995,077 across 12,698 contributions and 1,027 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of unpaid community workers. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER include the shorter VOLUNTEER key?

Only if the bulk extract normalized VOLUNTEER to this phrase. Otherwise VOLUNTEER is a separate key. This page covers COMMUNITY VOLUNTEER: $9,995,077, 12,698 contributions, and 1,027 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average community-volunteer contribution?

Dividing $9,995,077 by 12,698 itemizations yields about $787 per contribution. Dividing by 1,027 donors yields about $9,732 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 12 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing community volunteer prove unpaid community work?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify hours or organization. Quote 12,698 contributions and 1,027 donor records with the $9,995,077 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.