What COO donors give in federal races

Mid-size executive pool, mid-size mean line

$18,870,517 is the occupation-level dollar total. 39,925 is the itemization count. 3,124 is the donor-record count. Mean contribution size is about $473. Mean dollars per donor record are about $6,041. Repeat giving is about 13 itemizations per donor record.

3,124 donor records is a larger executive pool than several C-suite abbreviations with similar dollars but fewer names. The per-line mean of about $473 sits between high-check investor titles and high-volume clinical strings.

The packet has no employer field, no company-size cut, and no party split. Means are not medians.

COO is not CEO and not a spelled-out operating title

CEO, C.E.O., CFO, and PRESIDENT are neighboring occupation keys. This page covers the exact string COO: $18,870,517, 39,925 contributions, and 3,124 donors. Chief operating officer, if stored as a separate key, is not added here.

The FEC does not verify that the donor held the operating-officer seat on the gift date. People who used COO as a shorthand for a broader operations role can appear. Occupation is per transaction.

What the table is not

$18,870,517 is not a corporate PAC total and not an industry-of-employer sum. Industry pages group NAICS-style employer categories. A COO at a manufacturer and a COO at a hospital share this occupation string if they typed COO.

Do not add this occupation total to CEO occupation dollars and call the result C-suite giving. That homemade cluster is a different query. Restated in compact millions, the occupation total is $18.9 million.

Using the hub

Cite $18,870,517, 39,925 contributions, and 3,124 donors. Use the occupations index to compare COO with CEO and CFO without merging them. Source: Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts are omitted. Harvested facts have no cycle year. Live filters may change displayed sums.

Limits

3,124 is a contributor-record count, not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Shared nicknames and hyphenated C-suite strings are not resolved in these facts. Extra words (COO and founder) create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to COO.

Do not treat the mean of about $6,041 per donor record as typical operating-officer compensation allocated to politics. It is an arithmetic mean of itemized occupation money.

Abbreviation keys in the C-suite extract

COO in this extract is $18,870,517 on 39,925 itemizations from 3,124 donor records. About 13 itemizations per donor record is a moderate repeat rate. Mean line size is about $473. CEO and CFO remain other hubs. Spelled-out chief operating officer, if present, is another key.

Industry pages will not equal $18,870,517. A person who listed COO on some gifts and CEO 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 COO, dollars equal $18,870,517, contributions equal 39,925, donors equal 3,124. LobbyVault does not infer motive from the occupation column. Compact millions ($18.9 million) are the same headline amount as $18,870,517, rounded to one decimal place.

3,124 donor records is a larger C-suite abbreviation pool than several neighboring keys with similar dollars but fewer names. Mean dollars per donor record of about $6,041 are an arithmetic mean of itemized occupation money, not typical operating-officer compensation. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code, so they never enter $18,870,517. Harvested facts have no cycle year.

Researchers comparing executive abbreviations should keep COO on its own line. The occupations index is the inventory of CEO, CFO, and related strings. Extra words such as COO and founder create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to COO. 3,124 is a contributor-record count, not a unique-person estimate after name matching. Quote the exact string, then $18,870,517, 39,925 contributions, and 3,124 donors, and stop. Live hub filters may change displayed sums; this file restates harvested packet facts only.

Operating-officer abbreviations split across COO, chief operating officer, and hyphenated C-suite hybrids when donors type different words. This file holds only the three-letter key: $18,870,517, 39,925 contributions, and 3,124 donors. About 13 itemizations per donor record is a moderate repeat rate, not a calendar of gifts. Open the live COO occupation page for recipient rows and cycle filters.

Questions

How much have COO donors given in FEC records?

Occupation COO is attached to $18,870,517 in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index, from 39,925 contributions and 3,124 donor records. The total is itemized occupation money, not a roster of sitting chief operating officers. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is CEO included in the COO total?

No. CEO is a separate occupation string. This page covers COO only: $18,870,517, 39,925 contributions, and 3,124 donors. 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.

What is the average COO contribution?

Dividing $18,870,517 by 39,925 itemizations yields about $473 per contribution. Dividing by 3,124 donors yields about $6,041 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing COO prove the donor was chief operating officer?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify corporate titles. Quote 39,925 contributions and 3,124 donor records with the $18,870,517 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.