INVESTOR on FEC filings: $89.9M itemized

A capital-income word in the employer field

FEC forms want a workplace. Some donors without a current payroll job type INVESTOR. Others type a family office, a hedge fund, or Goldman Sachs. Those named entities are other industry keys. The $89.9M total is only the generic INVESTOR string.

NAICS finance codes are not applied here. LobbyVault does not recode INVESTOR into securities, funds, or holding companies. The ranking is literal text.

5,774 donors and $89.9M

5,774 donors produced 141,637 INVESTOR contribution lines. Repeat giving explains receipts above unique donors. The dollar total sits near BUSINESSMAN and CONSULTANT in the ranked list; that proximity is a ranking coincidence, not a shared firm.

Party share is not attached to this industry headline. Super PAC receipts, if any, appear on committee pages, not as a slice of $89.9M on this overview.

INVESTMENTS is a different string

INVESTMENTS (plural noun) has its own LobbyVault row. So do bank and brokerage employer names. Adding INVESTOR to INVESTMENTS would invent a combined finance total the FEC file does not publish.

Occupation pages show when occupation is INVESTOR and employer is a specific firm — those lines may harvest to the firm instead of this generic title. Accredited-investor definitions in securities law are not FEC fields. The $89.9M total is 5,774 donors and 141,637 lines tagged INVESTOR. A retired person living off savings and a fund employee who typed the title can share the bucket. Assets are not on the schedule.

Donor table

The INVESTOR donor table lists disclosed names and amounts. A large gift is a public contribution. It is not a 13F filing, not a beneficial-ownership report, and not a LobbyVault claim about assets.

Common last names plus a generic title collide. Use committee and date to separate people. INVESTMENTS (plural) is the shop-noun sibling. Fund and bank letterheads are other keys. RETIRED is a status word some of the same humans use in other years. Those dollars are not inside $89.9M.

Source

FEC.gov via LobbyVault: $89.9M, 141,637 contributions, 5,774 donors, top employer INVESTOR. Unitemized and non-federal activity are omitted.

Follow recipient committees from the table. Beneficial-ownership and 13F databases answer different questions. This page answers how much itemized federal money sits on the INVESTOR string. Cite $89.9M that way, from FEC.gov via LobbyVault.

Funds, 13Fs, and generic capital-income text

INVESTOR is not a 13F and not accredited-investor status. The $89.9M total, 141,637 contribution lines, and 5,774 donors are the generic title. Named funds, GOLDMAN SACHS, MERRILL LYNCH, and INVESTMENTS are other keys. Unitemized gifts and state races are omitted. LobbyVault does not attach assets under management to this string.

RETIRED donors who live off savings sometimes type INVESTOR instead. Those people are here only if the stored word is INVESTOR. Occupation pages show title-versus-employer splits. Open the INVESTOR donor table for names and committees. The label is self-reported FEC text, not a NAICS finance sector, from FEC.gov via LobbyVault. Occupation pages recover INVESTOR as occupation with a named-firm employer. Harvest may send those lines to the firm. Search both views before claiming an investor is missing from the 5,774. Securities-law accredited-investor tests are not applied here. The $89.9M INVESTOR total is 5,774 donors and 141,637 lines mixing people living off capital and people who work at funds but typed the title. INVESTMENTS is the shop-noun sibling, with its own total. Bank and fund letterheads are other keys. RETIRED is a status word some of the same humans use in other years. Beneficial-ownership databases answer different questions. Occupation pages recover INVESTOR as occupation with a named-firm employer; harvest may send those lines to the firm. Unitemized gifts and state races are omitted. Cite $89.9M from FEC.gov via LobbyVault, not a NAICS finance sector. Private-fund questionnaires ask accredited-investor questions this FEC row does not. $89.9M, 5,774 donors, and 141,637 lines mix capital-income self-descriptions with fund staff who typed the title. INVESTMENTS is the shop-noun sibling, with its own total. Bank letterheads are other keys. RETIRED is a status some of the same people use later. Occupation pages recover INVESTOR as occupation with a firm employer. Unitemized gifts stay out. FEC.gov via LobbyVault stores the title, not a 13F.

Questions

How much have INVESTOR donors given federally?

LobbyVault attributes $89.9M to the INVESTOR FEC string, from 141,637 contributions and 5,774 donors. INVESTMENTS and named funds are separate labels. The figure is not a NAICS finance total. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Does this include hedge-fund employees?

Only if the grouped label is INVESTOR. Staff who typed a fund or bank name are in other industry rows. The $89.9M total is the generic word. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.

Is INVESTOR the same as INVESTMENTS?

No. They are different free-text values. LobbyVault keeps two rows because FEC.gov stores two strings. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted. This answer uses only the packet totals for that FEC employer/occupation string as indexed on LobbyVault from FEC.gov, with no NAICS overlay applied.

How many unique investor donors are listed?

The rollup counts 5,774 donors and 141,637 contribution lines. Repeat gifts raise the receipt count. This is not a count of accredited investors. Figures on this answer are limited to that FEC string as indexed on LobbyVault; unitemized gifts and non-federal filings are omitted.