Homemaker/Homemaker on FEC schedules: $21.0 million

Why a slash duplicate exists

Committees often copy the same word into both the employer box and the occupation box. Software then concatenates them with a slash, producing Homemaker/Homemaker. LobbyVault ranks that concatenated string separately from HOMEMAKER, HOUSEWIFE, and HOUSE WIFE. The $21,014,880 total is only the slash form. Combining it with HOMEMAKER’s much larger standalone total would mix two keys the FEC stored as different text.

This is a form-design artifact, not a second industry. People who typed Homemaker once, or used all caps HOMEMAKER, or wrote Housewife, are not in these 1,498 donors unless a receipt also carried the exact Homemaker/Homemaker grouping.

1,498 donors and 17,943 lines

1,498 unique donors produced 17,943 Homemaker/Homemaker contribution lines totaling $21,014,880. Receipts per donor are lower than in some high-volume status rows that run tens of lines per person, but repeats still exist. The packet does not publish average gift size as a separate FEC field.

Party share is not on the industry headline. PAC filings and independent expenditures that do not carry this individual-employer string are outside the $21,014,880. Unitemized gifts never appear.

Reading names without inferring household roles

The Homemaker/Homemaker donor table lists disclosed contributors attached to this string. A large gift is a public individual contribution. LobbyVault does not infer household income, a spouse’s employer, or motive from the slash label. The FEC field stores what was typed.

Occupation breakdowns remain useful when a later receipt uses a different occupation word while employer stays Homemaker, or the reverse. Those later receipts leave this row. LobbyVault does not recode slash duplicates into the unsashed HOMEMAKER total.

Related household strings

HOMEMAKER, HOUSEWIFE, HOUSE WIFE, HOME MANAGER, and VOLUNTEER are sibling self-descriptions. Each has its own dollar total. Homemaker/Homemaker is the slash duplicate only. Placeholders such as REQUESTED mean missing employer data and are not this status.

Researchers who want a combined household-status picture must add the keys themselves and document the overlap risk: the same person can appear in more than one string across different receipts. This page stays at $21,014,880, 17,943 lines, and 1,498 donors for Homemaker/Homemaker only.

Researchers comparing household-status strings should keep Homemaker/Homemaker’s 1,498 donors and $21,014,880 on a separate line from HOMEMAKER, HOUSEWIFE, HOUSE WIFE, HOME MANAGER, and VOLUNTEER. Adding those keys without listing them produces a blended total the FEC never stored. Unitemized gifts still never appear in any of those rows. The 17,943 contribution lines on this page are only the slash-joined grouping. Occupation pages remain the place to see a second field that might say none, retired, or homemaker beside the same people. Follow recipient committees on the Homemaker/Homemaker donor table for party and office; this guide does not invent those shares. Cite FEC.gov via LobbyVault for the three packet figures only.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault reports $21,014,880, 17,943 contributions, and 1,498 donors for Homemaker/Homemaker, with that same slash string as the top employer value. Coverage is itemized federal individual receipts. State filings and unitemized money are omitted.

The industry ranking uses FEC employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS. Open the donor table for names and committees. Open the occupation index for job-title fields stored beside this employer text.

Coverage limits on the $21,014,880 slash row

Homemaker/Homemaker’s $21,014,880 is itemized federal individual receipts with that exact slash-joined grouping. Unitemized gifts never appear. State filings never appear. HOMEMAKER without the slash is a different, much larger key; HOUSEWIFE, HOUSE WIFE, HOME MANAGER, and VOLUNTEER are additional household-status strings. None of those dollars is inside the 17,943 lines counted here unless a receipt also carried Homemaker/Homemaker.

The 1,498 unique donors can overlap those other strings across different receipts. A person who wrote HOMEMAKER on one schedule and Homemaker/Homemaker on another is in both rows for the matching receipts only. LobbyVault does not recode mixed case, slashes, or synonyms into a single household industry. Researchers who add the keys must document that overlap risk rather than treat the sum as unique people.

The donor table lists disclosed names and recipient committees attached to the slash pair. A large gift is a public individual contribution, not a statement about household income or a spouse’s employer. Occupation pages show whatever second field was stored. Placeholders (REQUESTED and siblings) are missing-data labels, not this status. Source: FEC.gov via LobbyVault — $21,014,880, 17,943 contributions, 1,498 donors — employer/occupation self-reports, not NAICS.

Questions

How much have Homemaker/Homemaker donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $21,014,880 to the Homemaker/Homemaker string, from 17,943 contributions and 1,498 donors. These are itemized individual receipts with that slash-joined text, not a NAICS household sector and not the standalone HOMEMAKER row. 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 Homemaker/Homemaker the same as HOMEMAKER?

No. HOMEMAKER without the slash is a separate grouped string with its own page and a larger dollar total. Homemaker/Homemaker is the concatenated employer/occupation pair. LobbyVault does not merge the two keys. The $21,014,880 figure is the slash form only.

Why does the label appear twice with a slash?

Committees often put the same word in employer and occupation. Filing software joins them as Homemaker/Homemaker. That is a paperwork pattern, not a second occupation. The 1,498 donors and 17,943 lines are receipts stored under that joined string. 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 HOUSEWIFE donors?

No. HOUSEWIFE and HOUSE WIFE are separate strings. A receipt stamped Homemaker/Homemaker is counted only in the $21,014,880 here. People who used other household words are on those other industry pages. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC employer string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.