ENTREPRENEUR as FEC employer text: $14.9 million

A self-description, not a startup census

FEC forms do not classify founders by NAICS. They store the word the filer typed. ENTREPRENEUR is that word. The $14,889,561 total is itemized individual gifts whose grouped employer text matches it. It is not venture-capital deployment, not a count of incorporated startups, and not every founder who wrote the LLC name instead.

People who typed SELF-EMPLOYED, SELF EMPLOYED, BUSINESS OWNER, INVESTOR, or a company legal name sit in other rows. LobbyVault does not recode those variants into ENTREPRENEUR.

2,517 donors and 42,576 lines

2,517 unique donors produced 42,576 ENTREPRENEUR contribution lines totaling $14,889,561. Receipts per donor run near 17 — moderate repeats compared with 60-line payroll names. The packet does not publish a mean gift or a sector split among the businesses those donors may run.

Party share is not on the industry headline. Unitemized gifts never appear. Independent expenditures that lack this individual-employer string are outside the $14,889,561.

Self-employment siblings

SELF-EMPLOYED, SELF, BUSINESS OWNER, INVESTOR, and CONSULTANT are related self-descriptions with separate totals. ENTREPRENEUR is this one word only. A combined “founders and owners” recode must list every key and accept that the same person can appear under more than one string across receipts.

Occupation pages show titles stored beside ENTREPRENEUR. Some donors pair the word with SELF in the other box; those pairs are stored as typed and are not merged into BUSINESS OWNER.

Donor table

The ENTREPRENEUR donor table lists disclosed names, amounts, and recipient committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not infer a cap table, an IPO, or a motive from the status word. The FEC field is not a secretary-of-state business-registration file.

Repeat names among 42,576 lines from 2,517 people are expected. People who run companies but typed the company name are not in these 2,517 unless a receipt also carried ENTREPRENEUR.

ENTREPRENEUR’s 42,576 lines from 2,517 donors totaling $14,889,561 should not be added silently to SELF-EMPLOYED, BUSINESS OWNER, INVESTOR, or SELF. Those are other stored strings. Unitemized gifts stay out. A founder who listed an LLC name is in that firm row. Occupation pages show titles beside ENTREPRENEUR. The donor table does not certify secretary-of-state registrations. Follow committees for party and office. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault, employer/occupation self-reports, not a Census of startups.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $14,889,561, 42,576 contributions, 2,517 donors, top employer ENTREPRENEUR. The ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS.

Compare SELF-EMPLOYED, BUSINESS OWNER, and INVESTOR on the industry index. Use occupation pages for titles next to this status word. Follow committees on the donor table for party and office.

Keep ENTREPRENEUR’s $14,889,561, 42,576 contributions, and 2,517 donors on this status word. SELF-EMPLOYED and BUSINESS OWNER stay on their own pages. Unitemized gifts remain omitted. Occupation breakdowns show titles stored beside ENTREPRENEUR. The donor table lists disclosed recipients; this guide does not assign party percentages. FEC.gov via LobbyVault is the source, not a startup census and not NAICS.

Founder-word coverage versus owner and self-employed rows

ENTREPRENEUR’s $14,889,561 from 2,517 donors and 42,576 lines is a status word, not a NAICS startup sector and not venture-capital deployment. SELF-EMPLOYED, SELF, BUSINESS OWNER (974 donors, $13,380,189 in this batch), INVESTOR, and CONSULTANT are related self-descriptions with separate totals. A founder who wrote the LLC name is in that firm row, not necessarily in the 2,517.

Receipts per donor run near 17 — moderate repeats compared with 60-line payroll names. Unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted from the $14,889,561. LobbyVault does not publish a sector split among the businesses those donors may run because the packet does not. A combined owners recode must list every key and accept cross-receipt overlap.

The donor table lists disclosed names and committees. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not a cap-table inference. Occupation pages show titles beside ENTREPRENEUR. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault — $14,889,561, 42,576 contributions, 2,517 donors — self-reported form text, not NAICS and not a Census self-employment count.

Questions

How much have ENTREPRENEUR-listed donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $14,889,561 to the ENTREPRENEUR employer string, from 42,576 contributions and 2,517 donors. These are itemized individual receipts, not a NAICS startup sector and not a venture-capital total. Unitemized gifts are omitted. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Is ENTREPRENEUR the same as SELF-EMPLOYED or BUSINESS OWNER?

No. SELF-EMPLOYED and BUSINESS OWNER are separate grouped strings with their own pages. A receipt stamped ENTREPRENEUR is counted only in the $14,889,561 here. LobbyVault does not merge founder-style words into one owner industry. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Does this include every founder who donated?

No. Only itemized federal receipts whose employer text grouped to ENTREPRENEUR are in the total. People who wrote a company name, SELF-EMPLOYED, or INVESTOR are elsewhere. The 2,517 donor count is unique contributors in this string, not a Census self-employment count.

Why are there more contributions than donors?

The 42,576 lines include repeat gifts from the same 2,517 people. Recurring itemized donations raise the receipt count. The FEC field records each itemized transaction, not a once-per-person census. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.