What mom donors give in federal races

Extreme repeat from 378 donor records

$4,666,261 is the occupation-level dollar total. 39,054 is the itemization count. 378 is the donor-record count. Mean contribution size is about $119. Mean dollars per donor record are about $12,345. Repeat giving is about 103 itemizations per donor record.

39,054 lines from 378 records is an unusually high-repeat pattern for this harvest band. The per-line mean of about $119 is modest, so the contribution count — not a handful of large gifts — is what explains how $4.7M accumulated. The per-donor mean of about $12,345 is high because the same records reappear often.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. Recurring small gifts can raise a 103-line repeat rate without raising the mean check. Quote all three facts together.

Mom is not mother and not homemaker

MOTHER, HOMEMAKER, HOME MAKER, and HOUSEWIFE — if those strings exist as separate keys — are not rolled into this total unless the bulk extract normalized them to MOM. This page cites only $4,666,261, 39,054 contributions, and 378 donors.

FEC Form 3 and Form 3X collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals MOM after indexing. The neighboring MOTHER key in this harvest has fewer lines and more donor records; do not add the two.

What 378 donor records can and cannot show

378 donor records used MOM on at least one matching itemization. That is not a census of moms. People who used MOM as a default when not employed outside the home, retired donors, and forms filled with a family role can appear. Address variants can split one human into more than one donor record — and can also collapse many gifts onto few records.

A person who listed MOM on some gifts and MOTHER on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction. The 103-line repeat rate is a property of matching text, not proof that 378 unique people each gave 103 times.

Do not fold MOM into industry money

Industry pages group employer-side categories. MOM is occupation text, not an industry. Adding $4,666,261 to any industry total mixes household-status strings with employer categories. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the MOM occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to MOTHER and HOME MAKER. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $4,666,261.

How to cite MOM as FEC occupation text

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: MOM itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $4,666,261 on 39,054 contributions from 378 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money and that MOM is three-letter free text. 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. Compact millions ($4.7M) are the same headline amount as $4,666,261, rounded to one decimal place.

MOM as high-repeat household text

MOM in this extract is $4,666,261 on 39,054 itemizations from 378 donor records, or $4.7M 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 $119 per contribution and about $12,345 per donor record, with roughly 103 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. MOTHER and HOME MAKER remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to MOM. 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 $4,666,261. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals MOM, dollars equal $4,666,261, contributions equal 39,054, donors equal 378. 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 how 39,054 lines from 378 records produced $4.7M. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have mom donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list MOM as occupation sum to $4,666,261, or $4.7M, across 39,054 contributions and 378 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. MOM is three-letter household-status text, not a job census. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Is MOTHER included in the MOM total?

No. MOTHER is a separate occupation string unless the bulk extract normalized it here. This page covers MOM only: $4,666,261, 39,054 contributions, and 378 donors. Mixing them would invent a combined household total the packet does not contain. Occupation is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X. LobbyVault indexes exact strings from FEC.gov bulk data.

Why are there so many MOM contributions from so few donors?

39,054 itemizations from 378 donors implies about 103 contributions per donor record. Repeat itemizing raises the line count. Mean line size is about $119. The packet does not split causes. Occupation is self-reported free text on FEC Form 3 and Form 3X schedules. Unitemized receipts never enter this occupation total.

Where do I review individual MOM occupation gifts?

The MOM occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Verify amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $4,666,261. 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.