What EDUCATOR donors give in federal races

High repeat giving under a $20.0 million headline

Mean contribution size is about $120. Mean dollars per donor record is about $4,709. Repeat giving is about 39 itemizations per donor record—well above many executive titles with similar or larger headline dollars.

The shape is frequent small itemizations from a mid-size donor pool. A citation that quotes only $20,047,617 hides 167,624 lines. Quote the contribution count with the dollars.

These means are arithmetic. The packet has no median and no K-12 versus higher-education split.

Educator is not teacher and not professor

TEACHER and PROFESSOR are neighboring occupation pages with their own facts. Donors who prefer the broader noun land here. Combining EDUCATOR, TEACHER, and PROFESSOR without showing each source total mixes keys the bulk file kept apart.

This page cites only $20,047,617, 167,624 contributions, and 4,257 donors. The FEC record does not verify a teaching credential or a faculty appointment.

Donor-record limits

4,257 donor records used EDUCATOR on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed EDUCATOR on some gifts and TEACHER on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party or education-policy motive from the noun.

Education industry pages are a different cut

Industry tables group employers. Educators in public schools, private schools, and nonprofits share this occupation string if they typed EDUCATOR. Adding $20,047,617 to an education industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations.

Open the EDUCATOR occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to see TEACHER and PROFESSOR as separate keys.

How to cite a high-repeat education noun

A usable citation keeps the line count: EDUCATOR itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $20,047,617 on 167,624 contributions from 4,257 donor records. Dropping 167,624 makes the money look more concentrated than the file shows.

Source: FEC Form 3/3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. If a brief needs “teachers as a group,” list EDUCATOR, TEACHER, and PROFESSOR as separate lines. This overlay does not add them.

A broader school noun that still is not TEACHER

EDUCATOR in this extract is $20,047,617 on 167,624 itemizations from 4,257 donor records, or $20.0 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. Union membership files and state credential files are not this extract. EDUCATOR here is whoever typed that word on an itemized federal gift. 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 $120 per contribution and about $4,709 per donor record, with roughly 39 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Neighboring strings such as TEACHER and PROFESSOR remain other occupation pages unless the bulk extract normalized them to EDUCATOR. Combining those keys without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. About 39 lines per donor record among 4,257 records is why $20.0 million arrived in 167,624 pieces. The cadence is the finding, not a bloc thesis.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $20,047,617. A person who listed EDUCATOR 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 EDUCATOR, dollars equal $20,047,617, contributions equal 167,624, donors equal 4,257. 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 ($20.0 million) are the same headline amount as $20,047,617, 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 EDUCATOR 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 EDUCATOR donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list EDUCATOR sum to $20,047,617 across 167,624 contributions and 4,257 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. The figure is an occupation-string total, not a census of licensed teachers. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is TEACHER included in the EDUCATOR total?

No. TEACHER and PROFESSOR are separate occupation strings. This page covers EDUCATOR only: $20,047,617, 167,624 contributions, and 4,257 donors. Name each key if you add them. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Why are there so many EDUCATOR contributions?

167,624 is a transaction count. Repeat giving is about 39 itemizations per donor record among 4,257 donors. Committees itemize each gift that meets the reporting threshold. Mean gift size is about $120. The packet has no median. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing EDUCATOR prove a teaching credential?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify a state credential or faculty rank. Quote 167,624 contributions and 4,257 donor records with the $20,047,617 headline. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.