What fundraiser donors give in federal races

High-repeat receipts under $6.0 million

$5,997,881 is the occupation-level dollar total. 26,264 is the itemization count. 1,056 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $228 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $5,680 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 25 itemizations per donor record. Twenty-six thousand-plus lines from 1,056 donor records is a high-repeat pattern: many receipts per person, modest mean dollars per line.

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 $228 while most receipts stay smaller—or the reverse. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

The occupation is adjacent to the receipts themselves, which can confuse readers. This total is money tagged with the occupation FUNDRAISER, not money those people raised for others.

Job noun versus money raised for others

DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, FUNDRAISING CONSULTANT, and FUNDRAISER are different occupation keys if committees typed them that way. LobbyVault does not merge development-shop vocabulary.

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 FUNDRAISER after indexing. DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, FUNDRAISING CONSULTANT, and CONSULTANT remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to FUNDRAISER.

What 1,056 donor records can and cannot show

1,056 donor records used FUNDRAISER on at least one matching itemization. 1,056 donor records used FUNDRAISER on at least one matching itemization. That is not a headcount of professional fundraisers. Volunteers who typed the word loosely can appear.

A person who listed FUNDRAISER 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 employer-sector pages

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. A campaign fundraiser and a hospital development officer share this occupation string if they typed FUNDRAISER. Industry pages group employers, not this job noun. Adding $5,997,881 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the FUNDRAISER 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 $5,997,881.

How to cite the fundraiser key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: FUNDRAISER itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,997,881 on 26,264 contributions from 1,056 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. The total is the donor’s own itemized gifts, not funds they solicited from others.

Treating FUNDRAISER as the donor’s listed job

FUNDRAISER in this extract is $5,997,881 on 26,264 itemizations from 1,056 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. Occupation names the donor’s listed job. It does not measure money the donor bundled or raised. 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 $228 per contribution and about $5,680 per donor record, with roughly 25 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR, FUNDRAISING CONSULTANT, and CONSULTANT remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to FUNDRAISER. 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 $5,997,881. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals FUNDRAISER, dollars equal $5,997,881, contributions equal 26,264, donors equal 1,056. 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 $5,997,881, 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 FUNDRAISER in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have fundraiser donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list FUNDRAISER sum to $5,997,881 across 26,264 contributions and 1,056 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.

Does this total include money fundraisers raised from other people?

No. $5,997,881 is itemized receipts where the contributor’s occupation is FUNDRAISER. Bundled earmarks from other donors are not rolled into this occupation total. The file has 26,264 lines and 1,056 donor records. 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.

Is development director included?

Only if the occupation field equals FUNDRAISER. DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR is a different key. This page is $5,997,881, 26,264 contributions, and 1,056 donors. 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 see the underlying FEC rows?

Open the FUNDRAISER occupation page for the indexed list, then verify on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $5,997,881. 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.