What officer donors give in federal races

One word covering several roles under $5.3M

$5,333,585 is the occupation-level dollar total. 16,607 is the itemization count. 1,060 is the donor-record count. Dividing dollars by lines yields about $321 per contribution. Dividing by donors yields about $5,032 per donor record. The repeat rate is about 16 itemizations per donor record.

Those means are arithmetic, not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution, no party split, and no military-versus-corporate flag. A few large lines can lift $321 while most receipts stay smaller. This guide cites only the three harvested facts and the trivial ratios computed from them.

1,060 donor records is a mid-size pool for this harvest band. Sixteen itemizations per donor record is moderate repeat, not the 40-plus pattern seen on some clinical and assistant titles. Quote all three facts so the $5.3M headline is not read as a handful of large gifts or as a mass of tiny ones.

Officer is not police officer and not CEO

POLICE OFFICER, MILITARY OFFICER, CORPORATE OFFICER, and CEO — if those strings exist as separate keys — are not rolled into this total unless the bulk extract normalized them to OFFICER. This page cites only OFFICER: $5,333,585, 16,607 contributions, and 1,060 donors.

FEC Form 3 (candidate committees) and Form 3X (PACs and party committees) collect occupation as free text on itemized Schedule A. FEC.gov publishes what committees reported. There is no drop-down that splits law-enforcement, armed-services, and corporate uses of the word. LobbyVault groups rows whose occupation field equals OFFICER after indexing.

What 1,060 donor records cannot disambiguate

1,060 donor records used OFFICER on at least one matching itemization. That is not a police-department roster, not a DOD officer list, and not a corporate-officer filing. Retired officers, people who abbreviated a longer title to OFFICER, and forms filled with a spouse’s job can appear. Address variants can split one human into more than one donor record.

A person who listed OFFICER on some gifts and POLICE OFFICER on others will appear in both occupation totals for the respective lines. Occupation is stored per transaction, not as a lifetime identity field. The 16-line repeat rate is a property of matching text, not proof that 1,060 unique people each gave 16 times.

Keep industry and employer tables separate

Industry pages on LobbyVault group employer-side categories. An officer at a bank and an officer at a city department share this occupation string if they typed OFFICER. Adding $5,333,585 to a defense, public-safety, or finance industry total double-counts overlapping itemizations. Use one filter at a time unless you are tracing a single row.

Open the OFFICER occupation page for the indexed line list. Use the occupations index to place this string next to neighboring labels. Independent expenditures are not contributions and are not inside $5,333,585.

How to cite the OFFICER key

A usable public-record citation names the exact string: OFFICER itemizations in FEC bulk data indexed on LobbyVault sum to $5,333,585 on 16,607 contributions from 1,060 donor records. Add that the figure is itemized occupation money and that OFFICER is one-word 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 or branch of service. Recipient committees are a different join. Do not treat the total as a census of working officers. Compact millions ($5.3M) are the same headline amount as $5,333,585, rounded to one decimal place.

OFFICER as undifferentiated FEC title text

OFFICER in this extract is $5,333,585 on 16,607 itemizations from 1,060 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 $321 per contribution and about $5,032 per donor record, with roughly 16 itemizations per donor record. Means are not medians. The packet has no gift-size distribution and no party split. POLICE OFFICER, CEO, and CORPORATE OFFICER remain other occupation pages unless the extract normalized them to OFFICER. 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 $5,333,585. A public-record citation that stays inside the packet is: occupation equals OFFICER, dollars equal $5,333,585, contributions equal 16,607, donors equal 1,060. 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 shape of OFFICER in this extract. Exact-string matching is the method. Anything else is a different query.

Questions

How much have officer donors given in FEC records?

Itemizations that list OFFICER sum to $5,333,585, or $5.3M, across 16,607 contributions and 1,060 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 police officers included in the OFFICER total?

Only if they typed OFFICER. POLICE OFFICER is a separate occupation string unless the bulk extract normalized it here. This page covers OFFICER: $5,333,585, 16,607 contributions, and 1,060 donors. Mixing them would invent a combined public-safety total the packet does not contain. Occupation is donor-typed on Form 3 and Form 3X.

Does OFFICER mean a corporate officer or a military officer?

The FEC record does not say. Occupation is self-reported one-word text. Treat the 1,060 donor records as a count of matching text, not a classified roster. The indexed sum remains $5,333,585. 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 officer gifts?

The OFFICER occupation page lists indexed itemizations. Verify amounts on FEC.gov. The occupation total is $5,333,585. 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.