What managing member donors give in federal races

Few lines, large mean gift under $5.3M

$5,321,801 is the occupation-level dollar total. 3,718 is the itemization count. 597 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $1,431 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $8,914 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 6 itemizations per donor record.

3,718 lines is a thin schedule compared with assistant and clinical titles near the same dollar band. The per-line mean of about $1,431 is among the larger means in this slice: dollars accumulated in fewer, larger itemizations rather than tens of thousands of small ones. Those means are still arithmetic, not medians.

The packet has no gift-size distribution, no LLC-versus-partnership flag, and no party split. A few very large Schedule A lines can dominate $1,431. Quote 3,718 contributions with the dollars so readers do not treat $5.3M as a mass-donor phenomenon.

Managing member is not member and not manager

MEMBER, MANAGER, MANAGING PARTNER, and LLC MEMBER — if those strings exist as separate keys — are not rolled into this total unless the bulk extract normalized them to MANAGING MEMBER. This page cites only $5,321,801, 3,718 contributions, and 597 donors.

FEC Form 3 and Form 3X collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no Secretary of State cross-check of LLC filings. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals MANAGING MEMBER after indexing. OWNER and PRINCIPAL remain other occupation pages unless they normalized here.

What 597 donor records can and cannot show

597 donor records used MANAGING MEMBER on at least one matching itemization. That is not a census of LLC managing members. Retired owners, people who typed the title for a holding company, and forms filled with a spouse’s role can appear. Address variants can split one human into more than one donor record.

A person who listed MANAGING MEMBER on some gifts and MANAGING PARTNER on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction. The 6-line repeat rate is low for this harvest band: fewer repeat itemizations, larger mean checks.

Do not fold LLC titles into industry money

Industry pages group employer-side categories. A managing member of a real-estate LLC and one of a professional-services LLC share this occupation string if they typed MANAGING MEMBER. Adding $5,321,801 to an industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the MANAGING MEMBER occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to MEMBER and MANAGER. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $5,321,801.

How to cite MANAGING MEMBER on FEC schedules

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: MANAGING MEMBER itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,321,801 on 3,718 contributions from 597 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 published on FEC.gov. The facts do not encode party. Recipient committees are a different join. Do not treat the total as a census of working managing members. Compact millions ($5.3M) are the same headline amount as $5,321,801, rounded to one decimal place.

MANAGING MEMBER as concentrated ownership text

MANAGING MEMBER in this extract is $5,321,801 on 3,718 itemizations from 597 donor records, or $5.3M 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.

Arithmetic means on this key are about $1,431 per contribution and about $8,914 per donor record, with roughly 6 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. MEMBER, MANAGER, and MANAGING PARTNER remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to MANAGING MEMBER. 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 $5,321,801. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals MANAGING MEMBER, dollars equal $5,321,801, contributions equal 3,718, donors equal 597. 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. Keep the contribution count and the donor-record count in any sentence that quotes the dollars, so readers can see the concentrated shape of MANAGING MEMBER in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have managing member donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list MANAGING MEMBER sum to $5,321,801, or $5.3M, across 3,718 contributions and 597 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.

Are LLC members included in MANAGING MEMBER?

Only if they typed MANAGING MEMBER. MEMBER and LLC MEMBER are separate occupation strings unless the bulk extract normalized them here. This page covers MANAGING MEMBER: $5,321,801, 3,718 contributions, and 597 donors. Occupation is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data.

Why is the average contribution so large?

3,718 itemizations from 597 donors yield about $1,431 per contribution and about 6 lines per donor record. Dollars accumulated in fewer, larger itemizations than high-volume titles. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution. Occupation is self-reported on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X. Unitemized receipts never enter this total.

Does listing MANAGING MEMBER prove LLC ownership?

No. Occupation is self-reported free text. The FEC record does not verify Secretary of State filings. Quote 3,718 contributions and 597 donor records with the dollars. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.