What investment-management occupation donors give in federal races

Field label, not a manager census

$11,262,515, 8,930 itemizations, and 1,184 donor records are the occupation-level facts. Mean contribution size is about $1,261. Mean dollars per donor record are about $9,512. Repeat giving is about 8 itemizations per donor record.

8,930 lines from 1,184 records is a concentrated field-label stack: fewer schedules than high-volume titles at similar dollars, a four-figure per-line mean. The $9,512 per-donor mean is arithmetic, not assets under management.

The packet has no AUM field, no RIA registration, and no median gift. A few large itemizations can dominate the average.

INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT is not INVESTMENT MANAGER

The FEC record does not verify that the donor manages money for clients. Operations staff, principals, and people describing an industry can all type the field phrase. Best-efforts rules do not force a controlled vocabulary.

This page cites only $11,262,515, 8,930 contributions, and 1,184 donors. INVESTMENT MANAGER, PRIVATE EQUITY, and PORTFOLIO MANAGER remain other keys unless the bulk extract merged them.

Donor records and overlapping finance strings

1,184 donor records used INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT on at least one matching itemization. Address variants split records. A person who listed INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT on some gifts and INVESTOR on others will appear in both occupation totals for those lines.

Occupation is stored per transaction. LobbyVault does not infer party from the field phrase.

Industry pages already name finance employers

Industry pages group employers. INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT as occupation is the donor’s job-field text, not the employer-industry code. Adding $11,262,515 to an industry total double-counts.

Open the INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT occupation page for rows. Use the occupations index to place the phrase next to other finance strings.

Citation language

A usable sentence is: occupation equals INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, dollars equal $11,262,515, contributions equal 8,930, donors equal 1,184, sourced from FEC Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Unitemized receipts never carry an occupation code. Quote the three facts together so the four-figure mean gift is visible next to the headline dollars.

Refunds and memo entries follow FEC presentation in the underlying schedules; this guide does not invent a fourth occupation-level fact beyond $11,262,515, 8,930 contributions, and 1,184 donors. Neighboring manager titles stay on their own pages unless the extract merged them into INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT.

Reading the field phrase next to manager titles

INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT in this extract is $11,262,515 on 8,930 itemizations from 1,184 donor records, or $11.3 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. People who type investment manager, portfolio manager, or private equity may sit on other occupation pages. Only the exact INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT key is in $11,262,515.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $1,261 per contribution and about $9,512 per donor record, with roughly 8 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Combining INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT with neighboring finance strings without naming each source total changes the unit from one FEC string to a homemade cluster. 1,184 donor records on 8,930 lines is a concentrated field-label pool, not an RIA census.

Industry pages group employer-side categories and should not be added to $11,262,515. A person who listed INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT on some gifts and a neighboring title on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, dollars equal $11,262,515, contributions equal 8,930, donors equal 1,184. Candidate and committee pages hold the recipient side.

Researchers who need cycle cuts, employer text, or recipient lists should leave this guide and open the live INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT occupation hub. This file restates harvested packet facts only. Compact millions ($11.3 million) are the same headline amount as $11,262,515, rounded to one decimal place. Keep 8,930 contributions and 1,184 donor records in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the concentrated field-label pattern rather than an RIA census. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query. The occupation field is donor-supplied free text, not a manager roster. A citation that stays inside the packet names INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT, $11,262,515, 8,930, and 1,184 together.

Questions

How much have investment-management occupation donors given in FEC data?

The INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT occupation string is attached to $11,262,515 across 8,930 contributions and 1,184 donor records in LobbyVault’s FEC bulk index. The figure is itemized occupation money, not a census of asset managers. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT include investment manager filings?

Only if the bulk extract normalized that phrase to INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT. Otherwise INVESTMENT MANAGER is a separate key. This page covers INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT: $11,262,515, 8,930 contributions, and 1,184 donors. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules.

What is the average investment-management contribution?

Dividing $11,262,515 by 8,930 itemizations yields about $1,261 per contribution. Dividing by 1,184 donors yields about $9,512 per donor record. Both are means, not medians. Repeat giving is about 8 itemizations per donor record. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Does listing investment management prove the donor manages assets?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify AUM or registration. Quote 8,930 contributions and 1,184 donor records with the $11,262,515 total. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.