What creative director donors give in federal races

High-repeat receipts in a small director pool

$5,970,821 is the occupation-level dollar total. 19,519 is the itemization count. 636 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $306 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $9,388 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 31 itemizations per donor record. Nineteen thousand-plus lines from 636 donor records is a high-repeat pattern in a still-limited headcount: many receipts per person.

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 $306 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

The repeat rate is high relative to dual-title CEO keys with similar dollars. Recurring conduit gifts and multi-committee giving can each add rows.

How director titles splinter in FEC text

ART DIRECTOR, CREATIVE DIRECTOR, and DIRECTOR are different occupation keys. A donor who files DIRECTOR in one cycle and CREATIVE DIRECTOR in another is split across occupation pages.

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 CREATIVE DIRECTOR after indexing. ART DIRECTOR, DIRECTOR, and CREATIVE remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to CREATIVE DIRECTOR.

What 636 donor records can and cannot show

636 donor records used CREATIVE DIRECTOR on at least one matching itemization. 636 donor records used CREATIVE DIRECTOR on at least one matching itemization. That is not a headcount of working creative directors. Freelancers and agency staff can share the string.

A person who listed CREATIVE DIRECTOR 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 advertising industry pages

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. A creative director at an ad agency and one at a studio share this occupation string if they typed CREATIVE DIRECTOR. Adding $5,970,821 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the CREATIVE DIRECTOR 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 $5,970,821.

How to cite the creative director key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: CREATIVE DIRECTOR itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,970,821 on 19,519 contributions from 636 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. Occupation is a search filter on public records, not a claim about anyone’s reel or clients.

Reading CREATIVE DIRECTOR as an uncoded rank

CREATIVE DIRECTOR in this extract is $5,970,821 on 19,519 itemizations from 636 donor records, or $6.0 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; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact. Creative is an adjective in free text; the FEC does not rank directors. 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 $306 per contribution and about $9,388 per donor record, with roughly 31 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. ART DIRECTOR, DIRECTOR, and CREATIVE remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to CREATIVE DIRECTOR. 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 $5,970,821. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals CREATIVE DIRECTOR, dollars equal $5,970,821, contributions equal 19,519, donors equal 636. 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 ($6.0 million) are the same headline amount as $5,970,821, 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 CREATIVE DIRECTOR in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have creative director donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list CREATIVE DIRECTOR sum to $5,970,821 across 19,519 contributions and 636 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 art director included in this total?

No. ART DIRECTOR is a different occupation key. This page covers CREATIVE DIRECTOR only: $5,970,821, 19,519 contributions, and 636 donors. Combining them would invent a total the packet does not publish. 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.

Why so many contributions from 636 donors?

The index lists 19,519 lines against 636 people, about 31 lines per record. Repeat itemizations are the norm. Dividing $5,970,821 by lines yields about $306 per contribution, a mean rather than a typical check. 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.

Where can I inspect the itemizations?

The CREATIVE DIRECTOR occupation page lists indexed lines. Confirm amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total remains $5,970,821. Confirm surprising amounts on the committee report at FEC.gov. Occupation matching is exact-string only. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total. Industry pages group employers, not this occupation string.