What mother donors give in federal races

A small household-status pool under $4.7M

$4,686,054 is the occupation-level dollar total. 13,683 is the itemization count. 423 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $342 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $11,078 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 32 itemizations per donor record.

423 donor records is a narrow pool compared with clinical titles near the same dollar band. The per-donor mean of about $11,078 sits well above typical support-staff keys. Thirty-two itemizations per donor record is high repeat on a small record count. Those means are arithmetic, not medians.

The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. MOTHER is donor-supplied status text that committees accepted as occupation. It is not a NAICS industry and not a verified employment status.

Mother is not mom and not homemaker

MOM, 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 MOTHER. This page cites only $4,686,054, 13,683 contributions, and 423 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 MOTHER after indexing. The neighboring MOM key in this harvest has a different line count and donor count; do not add the two.

What 423 donor records can and cannot show

423 donor records used MOTHER on at least one matching itemization. That is not a census of mothers. People who used MOTHER 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.

A person who listed MOTHER on some gifts and MOM on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction. The 32-line repeat rate is a property of matching text, not proof that 423 unique people each gave 32 times.

Do not fold household titles into industry money

Industry pages group employer-side categories. MOTHER is occupation text, not an industry. Adding $4,686,054 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 MOTHER occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to MOM and HOME MAKER. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $4,686,054.

How to cite MOTHER as FEC occupation text

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: MOTHER itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $4,686,054 on 13,683 contributions from 423 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. Compact millions ($4.7M) are the same headline amount as $4,686,054, rounded to one decimal place.

MOTHER as household-status occupation text

MOTHER in this extract is $4,686,054 on 13,683 itemizations from 423 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 $342 per contribution and about $11,078 per donor record, with roughly 32 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. MOM, HOMEMAKER, and HOME MAKER remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to MOTHER. 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 $4,686,054. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals MOTHER, dollars equal $4,686,054, contributions equal 13,683, donors equal 423. 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 MOTHER. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have mother donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list MOTHER as occupation sum to $4,686,054, or $4.7M, across 13,683 contributions and 423 donor records in the LobbyVault index of FEC bulk data. MOTHER is 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 MOM included in the MOTHER total?

No. MOM is a separate occupation string unless the bulk extract normalized it here. This page covers MOTHER only: $4,686,054, 13,683 contributions, and 423 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.

Does listing MOTHER mean the donor is unemployed?

The FEC record does not say. MOTHER is self-reported occupation text. Treat the 423 donor records as a count of matching text, not an employment-status roster. The indexed sum remains $4,686,054. Cite the three packet facts with the exact occupation string. Source: FEC.gov Form 3/3X itemizations indexed on LobbyVault.

Where do I review individual MOTHER occupation gifts?

The MOTHER occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Verify amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $4,686,054. 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.