What DENTIST donors give in federal races

Broad donor pool, modest mean line

$36,685,531 is the occupation-level dollar total. 143,346 is the itemization count. 10,521 is the donor-record count. Mean contribution size is about $256. Mean dollars per donor record is about $3,487. Repeat giving is about 14 itemizations per donor record.

10,521 donor records is a wide pool relative to several executive titles with similar headline dollars. The per-line mean sits with other licensed-trade strings that generate many small itemizations.

These means are not typical-check estimates. The packet does not include a distribution.

DENTIST is not physician and not a specialty title

DOCTOR, PHYSICIAN, and specialty strings such as orthodontist (if present as a separate key) are not rolled into this total unless the bulk extract normalized them to DENTIST. This page cites only $36,685,531, 143,346 contributions, and 10,521 donors.

The FEC record does not verify an active dental license. Retired dentists, specialists who typed the generic noun, and people using the word loosely can all appear. Cross-walking this page to a dental-board list would overstate or understate the overlap.

Reading the three facts together

A citation that showed only $36,685,531 would hide that the money arrived in 143,346 pieces. A citation that showed only 10,521 donors would hide how often those records reappear. Use all three facts.

LobbyVault does not infer party or health-policy motive from the occupation column. Recipient committees are a different join.

Occupation versus industry for dental work

Industry pages group employers. A dentist in private practice and a dentist employed by a clinic share this occupation string if they typed DENTIST. Adding occupation dollars to a health-care industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations.

Open the DENTIST occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to see neighboring clinical titles as separate keys.

Limits and source

Occupation is free text. Extra words (dentist owner, retired dentist) create parallel buckets when they do not normalize to DENTIST. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Quote occupation equals DENTIST, then $36,685,531, 143,346 contributions, and 10,521 donors.

Dental occupation text without a board match

DENTIST in this extract is $36,685,531 on 143,346 itemizations from 10,521 donor records, or $36.7 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. Specialty nouns such as orthodontist, if they exist as separate keys, stay outside $36,685,531. This overlay does not hunt them. 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 $256 per contribution and about $3,487 per donor record, with roughly 14 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Neighboring strings such as DOCTOR and PHYSICIAN remain other occupation pages unless the bulk extract normalized them to DENTIST. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 10,521 donor records is a wide pool for a $36.7 million headline, which is why the mean line is about $256.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $36,685,531. A person who listed DENTIST 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 DENTIST, dollars equal $36,685,531, contributions equal 143,346, donors equal 10,521. 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 ($36.7 million) are the same headline amount as $36,685,531, 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 DENTIST 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 DENTIST donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list DENTIST sum to $36,685,531 across 143,346 contributions and 10,521 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The figure is an occupation-string total, not a count of licensed dentists. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Are physicians included in the DENTIST total?

No. DOCTOR and PHYSICIAN are separate occupation strings unless the bulk extract normalized them to DENTIST. This page covers DENTIST: $36,685,531, 143,346 contributions, and 10,521 donors. 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 DENTIST contribution?

Dividing $36,685,531 by 143,346 itemizations yields about $256 per contribution. Dividing by 10,521 donors yields about $3,487 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 DENTIST prove an active dental license?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify a dental-board credential. Retirees and specialists who typed the generic noun can appear. Quote 143,346 contributions and 10,521 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.